Category Archives: Odd and Ends

LEGOPalooza Planning

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 enough [...]

NXT Robot solves Rubik’s cube

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.

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LEGO Minifig Timeline

There must be a bunch of LEGO fans at Gizmodo because they post something LEGO related pretty frequently.  Their most recent post is the LEGO Minifig Timeline.

Looking through all of the minifigs brings back some memories.

Six Foot Minifig washes up on a UK beach

There is an article on Gizmodo about a 6 foot tall LEGO minifig washing up on the beach.  How come I never find anything interesting like this when I am at the beach?