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LEGO's 0.002mm Specification and It's Implications for Manufacturing - Productivity - The Wave

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:42:07 +0000

LEGO demonstrates that micron-level precision is achievable in mass production, but only if the entire system - material, mold, process, quality control - is designed around that requirement from day one. The lesson isn't that everyone should match LEGO's tolerances. It's to understand what your product actually requires, then build your manufacturing system to deliver that at the scale and cost your business model demands. Define what precision truly matters for your customers, and then build your system to deliver it, every single time.

Tags: #design #lego #manufacturing #product

Making a Factory Out Of LEGO That Builds LEGO - YouTube

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:42:49 +0000

After spending two videos building a LEGO car factory, I knew that the machine had the potential to pick up and place down most individual LEGO pieces, so I wanted to try turning it into a more general pick-and-place machine to see what kinds of things it would be able to construct.

Tags: #automation #hardware #lego #machines #nifty #toys

Building The DVD Logo Screensaver With LEGO | Hackaday

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:20:27 +0000

There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, with the DVD logo screensaver of a DVD player being a good example. The logical conclusion is thus that it would be great to replicate this screensaver in Lego, because it’d be fun and easy. That’s where [Grant Davis]’s life got flipped upside-down, as this turned out to be anything but an easy task in his chosen medium.

Tags: #dvd #lego #nifty #tv

Silicon Valley tech executive nabbed in false barcode scheme involving Lego toys - San Jose Mercury News

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:23:18 +0000

But "loss prevention" officers at the Target on Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino had never seen anyone take an interest in bar codes quite like Thomas Langenbach, a top Silicon Valley executive with the global software giant SAP. Prosecutors charged Monday that Langenbach used the tools of his trade -- computer codes and the Internet -- to steal a Santa's workshop worth of Lego toys. They say Langenbach brought his own bar code stickers to the store, used them to cover up the real ones, and then purchased his plastic prey at enormous discounts.

Tags: #barcodes #bayarea #compulsion #imported:pinboard #lego #odd #to:fb

Massive Lego Man Washes Up on Florida Beach

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:48:00 +0000

Tags: #funny #lego #odd

Bricksmith

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:12:19 +0000

"Bricksmith allows you to create virtual instructions for your Lego creations on your Mac. The magic is based on the LDraw library, a collection of 3D models of Lego building blocks created by enthusiasts from around the world. With Bricksmith, you never have to worry about running out of parts"

Tags: #lego #modeling #osx #software #virtual

Penny Arcade! - The Flavor Factor

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:11:53 +0000

"I just spent the first three years of my sons life trying to get him not to eat blocks, and now you're telling him they taste like fucking strawberries. Thanks a lot assholes."

Tags: #choking #fun #hazard #lego #snacks

Papercraft Star Wars Lego Stormtrooper

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:39:49 +0000

Tags: #lego #papercraft #scifi #starwars #stormtrooper

YouTube - Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:01:00 +0000

"Animated lego pieces putting together the Millenium Falcon."

Tags: #cool #geek #lego #nifty #nuts #starwars #via:codepo8 #video #youtube

You Grew Up Playing Shoot'em-Up Games. Why Can't Your Kids? -

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:03:35 +0000

"The Lego Company, it seems, has a policy of not producing toys that replicate 20th century weapons. "You can have swords, and you can have laser guns in space, but no actual 20th century guns," Anderson says"

Tags: #gaming #gearsofwar #lego #wired #xbox

Stargate: A LEGO® creation by Kelly McKiernan : MOCpages.com

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:02:45 +0000

"This rotating Stargate is 19 inches tall with light-up chevrons. An RCX drives a treadmill, which spins the inner ring randomly for x seconds, then reverses direction, seven times."

Tags: #awesome #lego #scifi #stargate #via:revgeorge

LEGOd Video Games - a photoset on Flickr

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:04:09 +0000

"A growing library of combining LEGO and video games!"

Tags: #gaming #lego #nifty

LEGO Technic Difference Engine

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:56:02 +0000

"I set out to build a working Difference Engine using LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits."

Tags: #compsci #hacks #hardware #lego

LEGO.com MINDSTORMS NXT Home

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:29:27 +0000

Wow. Geek explosion.

Tags: #hardware #lego #toys #wishlist

The Goldfish Online- LEGO Logic Gates

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:12:05 +0000

Ooh, mechanical logic gates of lego

Tags: #compsci #cool #lego