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Comment fabriquer un microscope en LEGO ? Yuksel Temiz un scientifique travaillant pour IBM en avait assez des images de merde produites par le microscope de son laboratoire. Il a alors entrepris de fabriquer son propre microscope motorisé à l’aide de LEGOs, d’un Raspberry Pi, d’une caméra Rpi 8 Megapixels, d’un écran Rpi et d’une imprimante 3D. L’équivalent de ce genre de microscope dans le commerce coûte plusieurs milliers d’euros. Son projet, lui, ne vous coutera que 280 euros, ce qui est quand même une sacrée économie. Ce microscope baptisé MicroscoPy permet de prendre des photos haute résolution d’objets aussi petits que des puces d’ordinateur, soit environ 10 microns (1 micro c’est 1/100e de millimètres). Il est destiné à la photographie macro mais également à l’imagerie biologique ou peut être utilisé comme microscope ou pour faire de la mesure d’angles. Et le plus beau là-dedans, c’est qu’il a mis les plans sous licence libre sur le net. Cela veut dire que n’importe qui dans le monde peut, à moindres frais posséder un microscope d’une qualité professionnelle. C’est vraiment cool ! Tous les plans, les fichiers STL (pour la 3D), les logiciels et les étapes de fabrication sont ici.

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Grant Thompson of the King of Random just shared a great tutorial on how to make completely edible gummy LEGO bricks and figures using a mixture of corn syrup, Jello, and gelatin. Using the right molds, the pieces are so precise you can actually build with them. Unlike the chocolate LEGO bricks we featured a few months ago, these look somewhat simple to make. (via The Awesomer)

According to the website of the Independent newspaper, LEGO UK has verified the 1970s ‘letter to parents’ that was widely tweeted last weekend and almost as widely dismissed as fake. Business as usual in the Twittersphere — but there are some lessons here about dating type.

Through it all I am continually struck with how amazing the LEGO system is as a medium for building, well, pretty much anything you can imagine. It allows people of all ages to enjoy the challenge of bringing their ideas to life, exercising their visualization and problem solving skills along the way.

Illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi designed a modular system for creating edible chocolate LEGO bricks. Chocolate is first poured into precisely designed moulds that after cooling can be popped out and used as regular LEGOs. It’s hard to determine exactly how functional they are, it seems like he had success in building a number of different things, though I can only imagine how quickly they might melt in your hands, but I suppose that’s beside the point; this is two of the greatest things in the world fused together. If you google around there are numerous attempts at creating various forms of LEGO in chocolate or other food, but this appears to be the most detailed and well-designed of anything out there. (via Legosaurus)

A container filled with millions of Lego pieces fell into the sea off Cornwall in 1997. But instead of remaining at the bottom of the ocean, they are still washing up on Cornish beaches today - offering an insight into the mysterious world of oceans and tides.

The LEGO® MBA kits are more than bricks with instructions. Each kit has its own book! Written by best-selling author Daniel Lipkowitz, with original art and detailed instructions, these books take LEGO building to the next level by:

Help your LEGO® fan become the best builder they can be! Fun and inspiring LEGO Master Builder Academy sets feature themed models, building tips, and exclusive minifigures.

How does Lego develop new products? John-Henry Harris, product designer at Lego, recently gave a talk for software developers at YOW! Australia about the design and innovation process at Lego. Interestingly, the innovation process of Lego seems to be built around constraints.

Animal Logic teamed up with Warner bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Lin Pictures for The LEGO® Movie, the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO® adventure. The film tells the story of Emmett, an ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary Master Builder, who is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from glueing the universe together.

LDraw™ is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes. You can use it to document models you have physically built, create building instructions just like LEGO, render 3D photo realistic images of your virtual models and even make animations. The possibilities are endless. Unlike real LEGO bricks where you are limited by the number of parts and colors, in LDraw nothing is impossible.

Official Lego sets made in LDraw

Meet Creative Bloq's own Lego superhero! With the Lego Movie out today, Pat Imrie explains how to model your own Lego mini-figure.

An update to my classic minifigure model. This edition is similar to the Space Marines, and has a number of incremental updates to the older file, like: A Cycles material and render setup, complete with a re-usable 3-point lighting setup. Improved rigging with greater intuitive control. Some minor poly reworking to remove glitches. A cute little scene.