prosthetic knowledge

Mixing Digital Sculpture With Real Objects 

Demonstration by Greg Petchkovsky on using current technology creatively, making objects designed on a computer to be placed in the real world. There are a couple more examples of this technique other than the one pictured above:

A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints from Greg Petchkovsky on Vimeo.

LEGO Great Ball Contraption 

A spectacle of modern large-scale pointless LEGO engineering, a 500-ball 17 module ball moving machine from Japan - video embedded below:

Lego Great Ball Contraption (GBC) in my house.
my own 17 modules

tracking the blue and red balls.

running at 1.0 balls/sec
500 balls
size : 1.5m×6.5m
path length : 31m
construction time : 600 hours

my blog http://legokarakuri.blog91.fc2.com/

Thanks to tomhardyav for the heads up :D

LEGO Forest In Australian Outback 

From Inhabitat:

A sprawling forest of larger-than-life LEGO trees and flowers recently sprouted up in the Living Desert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of LEGO coming to Australia! The installation is part of the LEGO Festival of Play, a nine-month program of hands-on events and elaborate creations that celebrate the versatility of everyone’s favorite building blocks. The LEGO Forest is ‘planted’ at Broken Hill, where it creates “a colourful contrast against the vibrant landscape”.

The life-sized LEGO Forest consists of 15 iconic LEGO ‘pine’ trees, each sized 4 meters in height, and 15 sets of flowers.  Rising from Broken Hill’s distinctive red soil, the LEGO Forest pieces are perfect replicas of the original plants – but they’re sized 66 times bigger to create a surreal life-size play world.

“To have such an iconic brand that so many Aussies grew up with, set against the classic Australian outback is a wonderful sight,” said Wincen Cuy, the mayor of Broken Hill. “I’m sure both locals and tourists of all ages will have a lot of fun discovering the magic that LEGO Forest will bring to Broken Hill.”

Camp America LEGO CD Case 

Bandcamp artist releases limited-edition physical album with a bag of LEGO and instructions to make it. 

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Build With Chrome 

Google and LEGO have teamed up with an online builder to create LEGO structures and place them in Google Maps, to celebrate 50 years of LEGO in Australia.

It goes without saying, but you need Google Chrome to use it, but you can check it out here.

LEGO Wigs by Elroy Klee 

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PriNXT

A printer created with LEGO Mindstorms pieces by a 14 year old. Here is a video demonstration:

This was created by Leon Overweel. You can read more about the printer and it’s development, including the files needed to make it run, from Leon’s blog post here

Earth Blocks

Real world LEGO from the Guggenheim Shop:

Made from of a composite of the bark of the cedar tree, compressed dust from sawn cedar logs, and coffee beans as well as other recycled materials, Earth Toy Earth Blocks encourage hours of creative building and play.

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LEGO Minifig At The Edge Of Space on A Balloon

Two teenage students build a balloon, mounted with four cameras and a LEGO figure, and launched it.

From thestar.com:

Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.

Their jerry-rigged contraption recorded the Lego man’s journey from a soccer pitch in Newmarket to the stratosphere — high enough to see their two-inch astronaut floating above curvature of our planet, clutching a Canadian flag with the blackness of space behind him.

The project cost $400 and took four months of free Saturdays. It wasn’t a school assignment. They just thought it would be cool.

“We didn’t really believe we could do it until we did,” says Ho.

More info about the story can be found here, photos here

Such A Blockhead

Part of an online photographic tour of the LEGO factory by National Geographic.

agsystems: I’m married!

This was their wedding cake - with lovely LEGO Minifig bride and groom :)