Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand. [Balazs] from RacingBrick posed this exact question: can a 3D scanner recreate ...
On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...
As a kid, Jason Allemann always loved building stuff with LEGO bricks -- but now that he's an adult, his brick-stacking game is on a whole different level. On his website, JK Brickworks, Allemann ...
Instructables member, Gosse Adema has used Lego building blocks combined with Nema 17 stepper motors to create his very own and very awesome Lego 3D printer. The 3D printer was crewed using a number ...
Some people think the future will include a 3D printer in every home. We think if LEGO started producing these as kits we’d get pretty close. Introducing the home-made LEGO 3D printer… with a ...
It is never too early to start making, as one 12-year-old tinkerer has proved this week by releasing details of a 3D printer they have created using a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit and a low-cost 3D ...
The 3D-printing scene is a hotbed of creativity, with enthusiastic makers using the printers to generate everything from homemade braces to custom remote control car parts. One of the latest ...
Given some biodegradable 3D printing filament and tasked with doing something creative with it, Vimal Patel built an extruder using Lego, attached it to a rather ordinary hot glue gun and ended up ...
The accessory market for the Apple Watch exploded almost immediately after the wearable was announced back in March, with stands specifically becoming the popular announcement of well-known ...
A new service called Funky 3D Faces will create a custom 3D-printed Lego head of your visage. For £30 (about $44) the company will send you a custom-printed head that fits on any Lego body. The order ...
Got an industrial-grade 3D printer laying around that you don’t know what to do with? 3D print your own “invisibility cloak”! We recently told you about how it’s possible to 3D print a handgun. Now, a ...