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Re: Lego printer

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This is just too awesome. Makes me jealous as all my lego went to my cousins many years ago. :( Anyone a good idea where you can get cheap lego stuff? (maybe china @ bulk order?)

From Lego. For generic blocks, you cannot really beat their "brick buckets" -- the deluxe version (http://shop.lego.com/ByCategory/Product.aspx?p=6177&cn=2...) has 650 blocks for 30€.

From the supermarket, you can hardly get a 50-brick model for those 30€.

Re: Lego printer

#14

I had assumed the link would be about a 3D printer that cranks out lego pieces. This is way, way more awesome.

And here, I was assuming it was a 3D printer that made objects with Legos.

Either way though, it was great.

Re: Lego printer

#15
post #8

This is just too awesome. Makes me jealous as all my lego went to my cousins many years ago. :( Anyone a good idea where you can get cheap lego stuff? (maybe china @ bulk order?)

This isn't really an answer to your question, but my co-founder's brother works as a designer at Lego HQ in Denmark, where they have a huge warehouse filled with every block/piece/component in every colour available... That's what he used to make lego versions of us, which we've used on our website ( http://wemakewebsites.info/about ). I'm sure you can get a lot of stuff on mail order.

Re: Lego printer

#16
post #8

This is just too awesome. Makes me jealous as all my lego went to my cousins many years ago. :( Anyone a good idea where you can get cheap lego stuff? (maybe china @ bulk order?)

This isn't really an answer to your question, but my co-founder's brother works as a designer at Lego HQ in Denmark, where they have a huge warehouse filled with every block/piece/component in every colour available... That's what he used to make lego versions of us, which we've used on our website ( http://wemakewebsites.info/about ). I'm sure you can get a lot of stuff on mail order.

God, a warehouse full of lego.

That's what heaven is like.

Re: Lego printer

#17

I had assumed the link would be about a 3D printer that cranks out lego pieces. This is way, way more awesome.

Well, why not combine a 3D printer AND lego?

Since I've got a long summer, I'm now really tempted to make a RepRap (http://reprap.org/) with lego like this. Imagine how cool it would be to show that to kids: A lego-robot making lego!

Re: Lego printer

#19

I had assumed the link would be about a 3D printer that cranks out lego pieces. This is way, way more awesome.

Well, why not combine a 3D printer AND lego? Since I've got a long summer, I'm now really tempted to make a RepRap ( http://reprap.org/ ) with lego like this. Imagine how cool it would be to show that to kids: A lego-robot making lego!

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