A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego 87
eldavojohn writes "Making a Lego printer is pretty cool if you've never seen The LegoMakerBot. The creator has instructions on his site on how to make (out of Lego bricks) a machine that 'prints' Lego models — much like a 3D fabrication machine — after you model them in MLCad. The sped up video is nothing short of impressive."
Re:sped up video? (Score:3, Funny)
Do you mean it's something short of impressive?
Oh my dear god (Score:4, Funny)
The builder made a colossal mistake. He included a design readable by the machine to build itself. This is how Skynet REALLY got started!
We are doomed!
Re:Oh my dear god (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amazing! (Score:2, Funny)
A Lego Command and Conquer machines?
Or perhaps you meant, Computer Numerically Controlled?
Re:Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
Self-replicating Lego machines? That would be the end of bare feet as we know it!
Re:sped up video? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry but I disagree that the sped up video is nothing short of impressive.
Even at 16x, I quickly lost interest.
So, if you played it at 4x or 2x, you would slowly lose interest.
At that rate, you should play it backwards. It would instantly be your favorite footage!
Re:Amazing! (Score:3, Funny)
hmmm... On second thought, *literally* running out of legos is kind of intriguing. It would necessitate that the author is really tiny or has very large bricks...
Re:Oh my dear god (Score:4, Funny)
Meh. I, for one, welcome our new self-assembling, replicating lego overlords.
Oh crap, am I the only one who thought of Replicators from Stargate?