It certainly isn't the first robotic arm made out of Lego that we've seen, but this particular one can actually be worn and easily controlled by the user.
According to its creator, Diavo Voltaggio, the arm was made using Lego Mindstorms EV3, which is a software-and-hardware kit for DIY robots. He says the machine is pretty straightforward: it has four buttons connected to four motors that control each finger.
Sometimes you just have to do a thing just because you can. And sometimes you have to do a thing to see if you can do it better than someone else (who did it just because they could).
Last week, a team of Official Lego Builders arrived in Budapest with the aim to break the Guinness World Record for The Tallest Structure Built with Interlocking Plastic Bricks. The previous holder of that record claimed it in August last year by students in Delaware with a tower standing 34.43m (112ft 11in) tall and comprising some 500,000 bricks.
A university professor in Austria has released the video below, showing how he has automated a low-tech approach to bypassing the digital rights management system on the Kindle.
His name is Peter Purgathofer, and he’s an associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology.
Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936.
The device, built by Jereon van den Bos and Davy Landman using a single LEGO Mindstorms NXT set, is one of the most impressive — and simple — attempts we’ve seen at building a physical Turing machine.
