Brickit is a clever app that uses machine-learning to design new builds from piles of leftover LEGO bricks. You just scan the pile with the app and the AI will pick out the bricks needed for your choice of styles along with step-by-step instructions for the brand new build. This app was created by people who love LEGO.
We love building, and we love tech, so we made Brickit — an app that scans jumbles of bricks and helps you turn them into starships, dragonflies, pineapples wearing sunglasses, and whatever else you can imagine.
LEGO BrainBricks is a design concept for LEGO bricks that are equipped with wireless sensors. The bricks can sense their configuration with one another and transmit the information wirelessly to any mobile device. A physical LEGO creation could therefore be uploaded to a LEGO gaming app. The concept is by…
Zazi Nombies builds replicas of weapons and items from popular video games out of LEGO bricks. On Zazi Nombies's latest episode, he builds the classic and deadly BFG9000 from the Doom series. Thanks Scott Devaney!
After watching his children play with their LEGO toys, Israeli beekeeper Dvorat Hatavor decided that he wanted to build a functioning beehive out of the same colorful bricks. He first gathered as many bricks he could find (some official LEGO, some not) and arranged them in the vertically modular form…
LEGO posted a wonderful timelapse video of their team of creatives building a life-sized version of the LEGO Speeds Champions Scuderia Ferrari SF16-H. The LEGO team brought the amazing Formula One racing car to life in 750 hours with the use of 349,911 carefully placed bricks.
http://youtu.be/W8fdXNN0irI Occupational therapist Christina Stephen, also known as Amputee OT, builds herself a prosthetic leg out of LEGO bricks in this time-lapse video. Someone in my research lab jokingly suggested I make a prosthetic leg out of legos. The joke's on you - I went home and did it. Please…
In December 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that LEGO Friends was launched, a LEGO product line aimed to appeal to girls. The product line, which consisted of predominantly pastel-colored bricks and stereotypical themes, drew worldwide attention and controversy. Now, according to CNET, Adafruit Industries founder Limor "Ladyada" Fried (who has a…
Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.
