Who said Legos had no scientific merit?

http://acarol.woz.org/ 

Sometimes we are considered as geek... but this man is over standing the geek concept !! In anyway, respect to him: building a calculator using "Legos" is pure art... 

re #10850.

nope, didnt get an email from you... 

I broke down and downloaded "Lego Digital Designer," which for the uninformed is lego's new virtual lego building software which lets you build stuff out of infinite legos without having to actually own any.

At first I thought, "how could they do that when it would sort of eat into their sales of actual physical legos?" However, it seems that this Lego Digital Designer lets you actually order, ie with money, the exact set of bricks you used to build whatever hideous masterpiece it is that you built. So, if you construct some crazy thingajig and just have to have it, you can buy it and have those bricks all show up in the mail for what I assumed would be a tremendous fee. I worried very much that I'd emerge from my apartment two weeks later, scruffy and unkempt, having spent upwards of a thousand dollars on a large, colorful, and fully articulated Baneblade or something.

It turns out I was wrong about all of that. Lego apparently decided instead that to stop this from eating into sales of actual sets they'd just make the software completely awkward and useless, and only include the boring common bricks you can't build anything remotely interesting with.

I placed like two bricks and a wheel and uninstalled the whole affair without remorse. I guess, for now, there is no substitute for the original. 

Agree.

We here at the tower of koth bought a bunch of Lego games cheap, including a builder ( don't know if it was the latest, but similar to what you describe ). The actions to get even an ordinary brick of an ordinary color into an ordinary location was a protracted feat of counter-intuitive key bashing. I think my greatest achievement was to successfully open a hinge.

Conversely, some cherished Lego was retrieved from a parent's garden shed and we set about constructing "some crazy thingajigs". No comparison. We're going to take pictures, then dismantle the Lego and safeguard it for the next generation. 

who of us played with Legos as a kid? So far, I know of myself, Lun, and Kell... 

Were the only toy i really ever played with from about 4 years old, to 16 years. I still take them out from time to time.

The 1200 piece black car still holds a place of honor on my top shelf. 

Around here (sweden) I think you can just safely asume (unless they're terribly old) that everyone played with lego and if someone says otherwise you'll have to try to figure out what cave they were raised in. 

Strong lego trimmer here, but as most of my greenhat toys are gone. But I can remember it gave me as much joy as Quark! 

The 1200 piece black car still holds a place of honor on my top shelf.

The race car??? I built that too! <3 

Tinker Toys AND Lincoln Logs -- Oh My!

I even had Giant Tinker Toys and could make a robot the size of my mom that would love me more than she ever would ;-) 

building cars and jets and rerigging toy guns to shoot out eye punturing things. As for legos, I never got into them. 

Sadly I wasn't quite creative enough to make impressive stuff, and mostly I didn't have the requisite pieces to make much anyway. Rather expensive things, you know. 

...but some inferior knock off, yes. 

Yes, legos were. It was the only toy I ever got (and in terms of cost per hour of entertainment, were incredibly low!). 

- Things frequently got pretty messy, and lego pieces were always getting lost everywhere, my giant collection eroding with every building session, in the end - I lost the last lego, and my Amateur Structural Engineering days were over.

They were indeed alot of fun though, the most fun was when you used standard pieces and built original stuff with, rather than following some plan or layout with special pieces by some danish guy. By the way, this job of coming up with the sets and ways you could build them was a plan of me and my friend when I was about 10, we spent weeks building and looking at lego plans, and trying to muster up the nerve to call Legoland in Denmark to see if they could employ us in their big factory.

Ah, the mind of a child :D 

I STILL play with Lego, for my birthday a couple of years ago the gf bought my one of those Mindstorms robotic sets. :D

Voodoo: just think, if you'd worked on your lego skills instead of level design you could be working for Lego right now. 

I used to dream of working for Lego building stuff when I was a kid, up until the day I discovered quake mapping really, then I kinda stopped playing with them. 

i play a lot legos :) with my kid! 

I was convinced at one point in my early years that I could construct a robot with them. I would not only use tinkertoys, but raid the kitchen for small applicances and tupperware that might come in handy. I would create a big pile of these useful parts in my room ro the den, and set about work all day, or until my mom came from the kitchen screaming about where such-and-such container was. I never did make that robot. Sigh. 

i once tried to build a bong from legos... fortunately, it didn't work out.

fantasy spaceships were always cool, especially when they had a battle, were shot down and crashed into hundreds of pieces afterwards. :) 

I love you, negnegke.

Yeah I was into Lego too. Mostly Technic though. 

 

Voodoo, we're on the same page with the single-dad-who-didnt-give-a-shit-about-messes thing :D I think the freedom to utilize 3 entire rooms with my own projects really affected me... 

It seems I was less creative than you guys at that age. I played with He-Man mostly. I was really into He-Man.