Name of Model: Mark's Magnificent Marble Machine |
Created by: Mweston |
Found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEFcgBpCI1g and http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mweston/construction.html |
Details: I believe that no explanation is needed for this nice little machine. To be fair though, this isn't a true robot because it does not involve sensors of any sort - it just lets various motors run and the actions take place whether there is actually a marble in that spot or not. It works really well in spite of that though. |
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Robotics Monday: Marble Machine
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Partial Town / Train layout
Name of Model: My section of the CILTC-IndyLUG layout |
Created by: beatnik |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=250211 |
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Miniature version of LEGO's 487 Space Cruiser
Name of Model: MINI # 487 Space Cruiser |
Created by: David Simmons |
Found at: http://www.xenobuzz.com/MyLegoCreations/Odds%20&%20Ends.htm |
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Working Grandfather Clock
Name of Model: Grandfather Clock |
Created by: Eric Harshbarger |
Found at: http://www.ericharshbarger.com/lego/clock.html |
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(This is Friday's model of the day.) |
Friday, April 27, 2007
New Beetle
Name of Model: New Beetle |
Created by: arvo |
Found at: http://www.ladrillitos.com/zmf/viewnews.php?storyid=145 and http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=246343 |
Details: The original page uses a number of pictures to describe the details of the model, so you may find it of interest even if you don't understand the Spanish-language text. There is also a brickshelf page for this model. |
(This is Thursday's model of the day) |
Smooth-lined Spaceship
Name of Model: HombaMkII - A New Version of the Homba 7033 |
Created by: imhotepidus |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=243437 |
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(This is Wednesday's model of the day.) |
Denmark Metropolitan Train
Name of Model: Copenhagen Denmark metropolitan train 4. generation. This is version 2. Close coupling with rubber bands. Curved sides in a very simple way. |
Created by: esbenkolind |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=173269 |
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(This is Tuesday's model of the day.) |
Monday, April 23, 2007
News / Robotics Monday: First LEGO League World Festival Highlights
Go to http://mindstorms.lego.com/news/#33484 to see some of the highlights of the recent First LEGO League World Festival. ...and yes, there are LEGO robots to see there. Also, information about a team with a perfect score can be found at http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2007/04/mindstorm-troopers-rt1200.html |
More Furniture
Name of Model: Furniture |
Created by: Moko |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=244285 |
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(This was Sunday's model) |
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Zebra Brush?!?
Name of Model: zeburashi |
Created by: junlego |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=201353 |
Details: The pictures tell the story: |
(and this is Saturday's model, by the way.) |
Friday, April 20, 2007
Interesting Vignette
Name of Model: Cosmic Chaos |
Created by: Nannan Z |
Found at: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/29791 |
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Microscale White House
Name of Model: White House |
Created by: torgugick |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=191689 |
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Bangkok Airport
Name of Model: Suvarnabhumi-Aiport in thailand |
Created by: unknown - but it was for a mall display. |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=247983 and http://klocki.blox.pl/2007/04/Atrakcje-Tajlandii-Suvarnabhumi.html |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Beatles Mosaic
Name of Model: The Beatles |
Created by: Henry Lim |
Found at: http://www.henrylim.org/Beatles.html |
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Robotics Monday: Inverted Pendulum Project
Name of Model: Inverted Pendulum Balancing Robot |
Created by: Ken Dye |
Found at: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dodds/projects/RobS03/Mapping/oldindex.html |
Details: This one's a bit nerdy...no particularly great pictures to speak of, but the concept here is worth reading about, and the LEGO execution of the concept is marginally interesting. |
Sunday, April 15, 2007
2 Models of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings
Name of Model: Minas Tirith |
Created by: Bruce at MicroBricks |
Found at: http://microbricks.blogspot.com/2007/04/minas-tirith.html , http://www.ozbricks.com/bricktales/lotr/lotrplaces/lotrplaces12/lotrplaces12-06/lotrplaces12-06.html and http://www.ozbricks.com/bricktales/lotr/lotrplaces/lotrplaces12/lotrplaces12-05/lotrplaces12-05-01.html |
Details: MicroBricks blogger Bruce has decided to test the limits of the microscale format by creating a large mountain scene with a full village. Although the model is at a very small scale, it covers a lot of ground - 6 LEGO baseplates' worth. The ground leading up to the mountain is cleverly sculpted, and the mountain itself features some well-placed vegetation. As if that wasn't enough, the front gates have also been expertly crafted in minifig scale: |
Friday, April 13, 2007
Beautiful Gigantic Spaceship
Name of Model: "Blacktron II" (although the Brothers Brick may have made that name up...) |
Created by: Proudlove |
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/proudlove/sets/12238/ |
Details: Of course, even more close looks reveal yet more details. Thrusters, bay doors, a bridge (that's a control room of sorts, for you non-sci-fi types), smaller spaceships inside, hatches, landing gear (which uses pneumatics for effect, but isn't functional), weapons, a fully finished interior, a cargo bay crane, droids, boardrooms, troops, a kitchen, a landing bay, private quarters, removable panels, shiny Blacktron elements that you could call "vintage" these days...there are just too many awesome details and creative uses of parts to mention them all. |
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Charming Emperor Penguins
Name of Model: A Happy New Year 2005 |
Created by: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=junlego |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=110490 |
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
A LEGO Bamboo House?
Name of Model: A quiet house in town |
Created by: echao |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=153228 |
Details: Of course, I'm assuming that this was done without cheating...but I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of hard-to-see shortcut was used here. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Marble Ladder
Name of Model: Lego Marble Ladder |
Created by: John Snyders |
Found at: http://hardlikesoftware.com/weblog/2007/03/07/lego-marble-machine/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WX-TYK7LJY |
Details: Here's an interesting little LEGO machine - it uses various LEGO TECHNIC parts to replicate a toy marble machine. On it's own, that would be cool enough, but this also has a motorized ladder that lifts the marbles back up to the top of the course regularly. The mechanism appears to be a sort of enlarged cam type thing. You can get the idea fairly quickly from the video below. Oh, and I saw that there was an RCX in the video, but since it's being used as an expensive battery box, I'm not going to count this one as a robot. Here's the video of this in motion: |
Monday, April 9, 2007
Robotics Monday: ColaBot
Name of Model: ColaBot |
Created by: StarTony |
Found at: http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/inventions/invention.asp?id={191E8CF1-211F-22F3-488A-ED8DABB693ED}&SlotN=1&galleryid=165 |
Details: I'm aware of the fact that a few more advanced models are out there now that do similar things. It's seeming a bit intimidating to track them all down though. Feel free to send your favorites to legomodeloftheday@gmail.com |
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Stop Motion LEGO Mosaic Animation
Name of Model: The White Stripes' "Fell in Love With A Girl" Music Video |
Found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw |
Details: I know that this isn't technically a LEGO model and that most people have seen this before, but I wanted to make sure I posted something today. This is not actually a sequence of LEGO models - almost all of the studs-up mosaics used were taken apart and reassembled differently to make the next frame. The effect, however, speaks for itself. |
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Mario Kart Characters
Name of Models: Mario Kart Characters |
Created by: Count Blockula |
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/countblockula/sets/72157594531675750/ |
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Friday, April 6, 2007
Tractor
Name of Model: DT75M |
Created by: misterzumbi |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=243431 |
Details:What you can see here is an DT-75 M tractor built in the 50s in the former Soviet Union - the plough is just my version of the great Marakoeschtra design - dedicated to Tim Gould Also, note the use of minifig hands, chains, studs-not-on-top techniques, and wheels. |
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Furniture
Name of Model: Furniture for medieval interiors |
Created by: marakoeschtra |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=225863 |
Details: So anyway, these "models" are individual pieces of furniture, done in a nice old-fashioned-wood style. They're apparently intended for castle-themed creations, but if you ask me, they'd look great as antiques in any mini-fig scale LEGO building. Some of the parts used are fairly expected, but some of these are a bit more unusual - legs and hands from minifigs, tiled plates, pneumatic tubing and such. Of course, these all seem much more special when you consider how hard it is to find some of these parts in brown. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
More Dragons
Name of Model: the-DRAKKHEN |
Created by: Izzo |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=237558 |
Details: As you may have noticed, there was no model of the day yesterday. Frankly, there are just too many awesome models in that photo pool! I'm still not done looking at all of them. I'm doing another bloated gallery of pictures today as well - maybe tomorrow I'll get back to posting a "daily dose". I have previously mentioned one of Izzo's fantastic dragons. Now he has completed a series of several dragons, as if to tell a story. Not all the dragons are as good as that first one I mentioned, but they are all fairly impressive. If anyone knows the story or a link to page with it, send it our way and I'll add it to this post. In the mean time, the rest of the Dragon series is today's "modelS" of the day. |
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
News: Photos from BrickFest
Photos have started emerging online from the BrickFest event. You can have a look at them here: http://flickr.com/groups/brickfest/pool/. There are quite a few models there that are really well done. There will probably be some links to more detailed coverage of the event here soon. |
Monday, April 2, 2007
WiigoBot can beat a video game.
Name of Model: WiigoBot |
Created by: Will Gorman of BattleBricks.com |
Found at: http://www.battlebricks.com/wiigobot/index.html |
Details: This robot can play a perfect game of "Wii Bowling" on Nintendo's Wii Entertainment System. For the uninitiated, the Wii is controlled through a "WiiMote" which is sensitive to movement. This allows for realistic and active video games. However, these new units have been controversial because we don't really need yet another video game system, much less one that has a remote that begs to be flung across the room. Anyway, so there's this "Bowling" style game for that platform that is apparently rather easily beaten. This robot pushes a button, swings the wiimote, and releases the button - and that's all it takes. Put that in a loop and a timer, and voila - a perfect score, one strike at a time. The link above has more detailed documentation, but that's the gist of it. This robot is both beautifully simple and surprisingly effective. Then again, this isn't a real bowling game, so issues such as the ball's weight didn't have to be taken into account. Since you need a "wiimote" to operate a Nintendo Wii, I won't count this as "cheating". Some books were used to help the 'bot from jumping (the momentum of the swing would make the 'bot jump if the books shown in the pictures and video weren't there), but that's probably just a time-saving measure (sure, they could have put together a bunch of LEGO just to weigh it down, but why?) Here's some embedded video action for you. I recommend watching it here only. This 'bot has been getting a good deal of "viral" attention lately, and some of the comments on the YouTube page are offensive and/or obscene. |
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Star Trek U.S.S. Voyager
Name of Model: Star Trek USS Voyager |
Created by: Marwede |
Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=175838 |
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