Category Archives: Odd and Ends

New Trains for 2010 but limitations persist

January 21, 2010 – 5:10 pm

New Trains! When I first saw some links to the 2010 trains I was excited.  These would be the first trains to be based on the Power Functions and in my opinion, the first train sets to come from LEGO since the decision to drop the 9v line.  One could argue that there were two [...]

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Do LEGO Constructions Have a Soul?

November 14, 2009 – 11:02 pm

Saw this on Gizmodo this evening.  It is pretty funny and makes you think.

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10 Totally Fun LEGO Blogs

January 21, 2009 – 1:01 pm

This morning I was looking at the WordPress stats for this blog (I was on a conference call and just poking around at the time) and noticed an interesting referral.  There was a link to my site from http://blogs.com/topten/10-totally-fun-lego-blogs/.  Check out the list, there are some really good LEGO related blogs to peruse and I [...]

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LEGOPalooza Planning

January 17, 2009 – 12:50 am

Tonight my son and I took a quick baseplate inventory in preparation for LEGOPalooza which is in two weeks!!!  It amazes me how many different types of baseplates there are.  I must have three different types of runway plates just in green! My piece of the layout looks like this: It looks like I have [...]

By Mike Walsh | Also posted in LEGOPalooza, Planning | Comments (0)

NXT Robot solves Rubik’s cube

December 6, 2008 – 7:39 am

Every once in a while you stumble across something that is just really cool.  This morning I was reading the Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter and in the Off Topic section it had a link to a a Lego MindStorms robot that solves Rubik’s cube.  Well I just had to check that out. Check out [...]

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