Star Wars Moonwalker Made from Legos NXT Robot
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Via ExtremeRobot, a star wars styled robot powered by a Legos NXT robot:
I suppose shaking around like that is at least something.
Making Music with Legos: The Galactic Wailers Sound Off
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009My kids loved this video. Three teens, calling themselves The Galactic Wailers have constructed instruments from Lego bits and pieces and Lego sensors. These are not robots, but they are instruments that incorporate sensors and other stuff used in lego robotics. Legos are the coolest toys ever made. It’s over here is the newspaper article where I learned about this.
Here’s their really cool video where they describe their instruments and perform the theme to Star Wars:
This sort of stuff inspires them. It’s over their heads, right now, but they start aiming higher. I think its great.
Lego Stop Motion Movie
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Does anyone ever outgrow Legos? Here’s a great stop motion film made with Legos:
Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
I found this on Geekadelphia. I showed it to my kids and they got excited about how much fun it would be to make stop-action films for themselves. The oldest has her own digital camera and we have a tripod laying around. She’s got her own computer, so why not?
So how do I go about doing this? I did a quick search and it turns out there’s lots of sites on the internet to help us get started. So, more fun.
Say, isn’t this how Phil Vischer, of Veggie Tales fame got started? If I remember right, he and his buddies would make films and animated special effects in their basements. I’ll have to go back to his autobiography, Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables
The exitement builds!
