Lego

Lego is awsome.

http://blount.asynus.com/obrazky/lego/vasek2.jpg

Someone's been at the weed again.

Lego is kinda cool though.

Technic lego with programmable mindstorms, now that's cool.

Unless I'm missing something, that's just a pile of coloured bricks.

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Rock on dude. Legos are the coolest things ever. I think I still have my castle

http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6086.jpg

Funnyly enough, I've been on virtual Logo lately ...
Recreating my old Lego space stuff, isn't exactly as much fun as doing it with real bricks, but it's a good enough timewaster to get the brain back into coding mode. (And way less messy on the floor :) )

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Technic lego with programmable mindstorms, now that's cool.

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Dang I guess I'll fetch some batteries now and fire it up ... and another day wasted in the past.

nGFX

lego is cool, however i'm 22 now :mrpimp: :mrpimp: :mrpimp:

we have lego at the university for multimedia experiments (mindstorm, but also fisherprice and mekano)- so even 23 year students play with it ;) usually used for interface or tracker systems but in most cases you dont see it becuase a nice body covers everything.

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Originally Posted by chriserrorplain

if.......only.....could....talk.....about.....upco ming.....project......must.....keep....NDA.....
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Smooth. :thumbsup:

Uhhhh...it was some 12 years ago I worked with them...I remember me and my friend used to build aeroplanes. The last one we built was like 1 meter long and 25 cm high. Oh and it was Tech Legos. The wings were moving and it could steer and...ohhhhhhh, good old childhood ;(

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Originally Posted by bomesar

The last one we built was like 1 meter long and 25 cm high. Oh and it was Tech Legos. The wings were moving and it could steer and...ohhhhhhh, good old childhood ;(

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nice....

I used to build robots. In fact might have one around that is till built from my childhood, I'll check it out tonight.

Anyone else think lego today lacks the imagination of 15 years ago? Why can't they bring back Pirate, Castle and Space?

I suspected I was in the midst of dorks for some time. I now have found my confirmation.

I build a WMD out of lego, but NSA found out and dismantled it and confiscated my legos. Hmm. A nuke made of knex....

eh? i made something just like that pyramid you posted, for a sixth grade project...(it had actually taken quite a while, i used the entirity of 2 lego boxes (1200 combined small, medium and large bricks, all coming in a variety of colors). made a solid pyramid.
suprisingly enough, smashing it against the floor was not as satisfying as i had suspected...it came apart in large chunks

a few weeks ago i used legos for dominos because i was bored, succesfully used multiple stackings, T-shaped pairs, and a bridge in my experiments

some of my white bricks have been colored orange...

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Originally Posted by Pugger

Anyone else think lego today lacks the imagination of 15 years ago? Why can't they bring back Pirate, Castle and Space?

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Yep! Def!

I was hunting for some technic stuff last xmas to reward myself from winning the MB comp.
I just had to learn that the technic stuff isn't as cool as 15 years ago, there were far more things to build to a single model. Mhm, the only cool stuff I found at the Lego store was the giant Star Wars star-destroyer, but 500 bucks wasn't quite exactly what I wanted to spend (not to mention the room needed to built and "display" it) ...

Downloading some more building instructions now :)

nGFX

Actually, I didn't build that, that's just a random image I found on google.
Lego is awesome. I'm not even talking about mindstorms (even though that's cool too), I'm talking about the ordinary bricks. According to one of Douglas Coupland's characters in his book Microserfs, Lego was the common denominator, the childhood-toy of all programmers.
I read somewhere that Hideo Kojima designed large parts of Metal Gear Solid's levels in Lego.

Edit: Oh, nGFX - I never got around to thank you. If I remember correctly you were the one who posted a link to the first chapter of Microserfs on Wired.com, a long time ago. I loved that book (aswell as jPod), thank you : )

jPod is in parts so frightenly real (ok except the china part) :) - scarry.

nGFX

has this thread been moved from one of the other boards or something? i don't recognise hardly any of these user names :confused: