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2012-06-16

Creepy! Lego unveils first-ever Haunted House set | Tech Culture - CNET News

The global toymaker says the new set, part of its Monster Fighters line, will be released in September. The set features a house and six ghoulish minifigures.

Source: Creepy! Lego unveils first-ever Haunted House set | Tech Culture - CNET News

LEGO Haunted House Set | GeekAlerts

Available this September as part of the new LEGO Monster Fighters lineup, the highly detailed exterior will have classic haunted house features like, peeling paint/missing shingles, boarded up windows, and broken shutters and railings. Normally that would be more than enough, but LEGO has taken it even further. Once built, you can open the house via the hinged wall to reveal an interior that features a kitchen, bedroom and attic for your playing enjoyment.

Source: LEGO Haunted House Set | GeekAlerts

LEGO® 10228 Haunted House - YouTube

Source: LEGO® 10228 Haunted House - YouTube

LEGO News: Official Announcement: 10228 Haunted House | From Bricks To Bothans

• Add to your LEGO® Monster Fights Collection with the first officlal LEGO® Haunted House!
• Includes 6 minifigures: 2 glow-in-the-dark ghosts, Vampyre, Vampyre’s Bride, Zombie chef and butler
• Features unique ‘crooked’ design featuring boarded up windows and working front gate.
• Haunted House opens to reveal detailed interior with 3 floors.
• First floor features fireplace that swings open and displays a ship in a bottle on the mantle.
• Cook up a ghoulish meal with the Zombie chef in the kitchen complete with old-style stove, jars and table.
• Write letters from the Vampyre’s haunted office.
• Pull the lever hidden in the chimney to release the drop down staircase and access the top floor.
• Top floor features gramophone, records and newspaper LEGO® elements.
• Customize the Haunted House with new stickers for wall hangings, spider webs and curtains.
• Measures 15.4” (39cm) high, 9.4” (24cm) wide and 7.5” (19cm) deep

Source: LEGO News: Official Announcement: 10228 Haunted House | From Bricks To Bothans

LEGO 10228- Monster Fighters Haunted House | Official Images! - YouTube

Source: LEGO 10228- Monster Fighters Haunted House | Official Images! - YouTube

Haunted House | LEGO Shop

10228 Haunted House - Eurobricks Forums

LEGO Monster Fighters Haunted House (10228) Preview - The Brick Fan

2012-04-04

BBC News - Self-sculpting sand robots are under development at MIT

Tiny robots that can join together to form functional tools and then split apart again after use might be ready for market in little more than a decade, according to researchers.
A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it has developed about 30 prototype "smart pebbles" and the software to run them.

Source: BBC News - Self-sculpting sand robots are under development at MIT

Self-sculpting sand - MIT News Office

Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model.

[...]

Unlike many other approaches to reconfigurable robots, smart sand uses a subtractive method, akin to stone carving, rather than an additive method, akin to snapping LEGO blocks together. A heap of smart sand would be analogous to the rough block of stone that a sculptor begins with. The individual grains would pass messages back and forth and selectively attach to each other to form a three-dimensional object; the grains not necessary to build that object would simply fall away. When the object had served its purpose, it would be returned to the heap. Its constituent grains would detach from each other, becoming free to participate in the formation of a new shape.

Source: Self-sculpting sand - MIT News Office

Smart sand & robot pebbles - YouTube

Source: Smart sand & robot pebbles - YouTube

DRL - Robot Pebbles

Each programmable matter pebble is a 12mm per side, and together they are able to form complex 2D shapes using four electropermanent magnets able to hold over 80 times the individual module weight. The pebbles are formed by wrapping a flexible circuit around a brass frame. An energy storage capacitor hangs between two tabs occupies the center of the module.

To form shapes through subtraction, modules initially self-assemble into a close-packed block of material (a). Once this initial structure is complete, and all modules are fully latched to their neighbors (b), the modules not needed in the final structure detach from the neighbors (c). Once, these extra modules are removed, we are left with the final shape (d).

Source: DRL - Robot Pebbles

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2010-04-20

LEGO DIGITAL BOX -- Augmented Reality Kiosk System

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Lego Boxes Get Augmented Reality Too

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LEGO Group Brings its Augmented Reality Boxes to All Its Stores Worldwide

19 April 2010

After a very successful evaluation phase of the "DIGITAL BOX" in selected stores, the Danish toy manufacturer is working with metaio to roll out the AR boxes to all LEGOr brand stores worldwide.

MUNICH, GERMANY April 19th, 2010 - The LEGO Group is currently rolling out its augmented reality DIGITAL BOXES to all LEGOr Brand Retail Stores worldwide after a successful evaluation phase that started in November 2008. The innovative augmented reality technology inside the DIGITAL BOX was developed and constantly improved over the last months in a partnership with metaio.

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This augmented reality kiosk called "DIGITAL BOX" has been developed by LEGO Digital Systems and metaio.

clipped from www.metaio.com

Stand-alone AR software for 3D professionals

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2008-09-29

Bug Labs Lego-like Gadgets

With BUG, a collection of Lego-like hardware modules you can easily build your own electronic gadgets

clipped from www.buglabs.net

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BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc.). You decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest, letting you try out different combinations quickly and easily. With BUG and the integrated programming environment/online community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program and share innovative devices and applications. We don’t define the final products – you do.

BUGbase

BUGview

BUGmotion

BUGcam2MP

BUGlocate

clipped from dobbscodetalk.com

Roll Your Own Hardware, or Dr. Dobb's Does Bug Labs

clipped from www.theregister.co.uk

Version 1.3 will see completely new modules offering GSM, WiFi and ZigBee wireless - along with an upgrade to the existing BUGbase unit that these and existing modules plug into. The BUGbase is also adopting SD flash memory to provide capacity at a low price.

clipped from news.cnet.com

Open-source gadgets at LinuxWorld

The Bug Base now has a Web browser.

2008-06-08

RepRap -- A self-replicating machine

A robot that can build itself: RepRap, a machine that can replicate itself by using rapid prototyping: manufacturing objects under the control of a computer, has been demonstrated recently. The machine is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence and a kit with all components needed to assemble it is available.

clipped from reprap.org

"Wealth without money..."

What is RepRap?

Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D
printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes
real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust,
think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

Robot that can build itself to be unveiled

clipped from blog.reprap.org

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

RepRap achieves replication!

Adrian (left) and Vik (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made by the RepRap on the left.

clipped from www.rrrf.org

Complete Electronics Kit Available!

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This kit contains kits of all the Generation 2 electronics you'll need to build a functioning RepRap machine.

$150.00

2008-02-04

LEGO Universe -- A new Lego online game

LEGO Universe is an upcoming massively multiplayer online game. It is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2008.

clipped from www.zath.co.uk

Lego Online Game

A new Lego online game is in the works called ‘Lego Universe’, its going be an MMO game, so think World of Warcraft style gameplay all set in a world of Lego!

clipped from universe.lego.com

The latest dish from LEGO Universe’s developers

At this very moment the LEGO Universe is being built up from electronic bits and bytes. This super specialized setup work is being done by people called “programmers” or “developers”. They work to create LEGO Universe, the first massive multiplayer online game for LEGO fans and supported by community members from around the world. They are super dedicated and they love to build with LEGO!

clipped from universe.lego.com

LATEST UPDATES:

January 24

The entire LEGO Universe team will be at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco in February.

View Progress Log »

2008-02-03

Posey a smart Lego-like computer tool

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed "Posey," a new way of interacting with computers: plastic pieces are snapped together, an exact copy of the construction appears on a computer screen.

clipped from technology.newscientist.com

Smart 'Lego' conjures up virtual 3D twin

If you gave Lego brains, you might get something like Posey, a new hands-on way of interacting with computers developed at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US.

When Posey's plastic pieces are snapped together, an exact copy of the construction appears on a computer screen. Every twist of, say, a stick figure's arm is mirrored in 3D modelling software.

To see Posey in action, skip to one quarter of the way through this video clip (65mb, mp4 format) showing one of the researchers at a public meeting.

clipped from code.arc.cmu.edu

Posey

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