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Shawn Stanford · « **on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 15:59:21 »

Make those toys do some real work: http://acarol.woz.org/

ricercar · « **Reply #1 on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 16:11:40 »

Rip with his firstborn:

"Hey dad, can you give me a hand?"

hyperlinked · « **Reply #2 on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 17:32:37 »

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Make those toys do some real work:

That's awesome! Here's a pic of the real Babbage Difference Engine #2

Computer-Lab in Basement · « **Reply #3 on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 18:24:15 »

I live not far from the Lego factory. It is about 40 miles from my town to Enfield, CT, where the Lego factory is located. And from reading these posts, if I ever get a motherboard that I don't have a case for, I think I'll build one out of Lego's.

ch_123 · « **Reply #4 on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 18:25:53 »

That's what the Google servers were housed in back in the days before they installed the money fountain.

AndrewZorn · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 18:36:29 »

reminds me of how someone made a 2-digit adder in littlebigplanet

SCTony · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 03 December 2009, 21:39:07 »

Ripster at Halloween

Shawn Stanford · « **Reply #7 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 07:23:13 »

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reminds me of how someone made a 2-digit adder in littlebigplanet

Sick!

SCTony · « **Reply #8 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 07:53:56 »

Computer-Lab, I read in Wiki that Lego plans to close that factory..."Lego Group plans to close the production facility in Enfield, Connecticut and outsource this work to the Flextronics factory in Mexico." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
Turns out Lego is a Danish (not Dutch, ty lowpoly) company- not American. The molds are made to 2 micron tolerance and the worn out molds are "encased in the foundations of buildings to prevent them from falling into competitors' hands".

LEG GODT Geekhackers :smile:

lowpoly · « **Reply #9 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 10:48:41 »

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Turns out Lego is a Dutch company- not American.

Danish - not dutch.

SCTony · « **Reply #10 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 11:13:29 »

Well good

My apologies to any Danish/Dutch Geekhackers.
After reading a bit more, "These bricks were based largely on the design of Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were released in the United Kingdom in 1947. Lego modified the design of the Kiddiecraft brick after examining a sample given to it by a British supplier of an injection-moulding machine that Lego had purchased." America isn't the only country where ideas are 'borrowed'.

itlnstln · « **Reply #11 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 11:19:05 »

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Typical British invention. Nice idea. Can't implement.

I love the title of the article where I stole the pic.

itlnstln · « **Reply #12 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 11:31:04 »

That guy looks like he's off in outer space. Don't pay any attention to him.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #13 on:** Fri, 04 December 2009, 16:15:12 »

I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen Hawking's wheelchair could let him travel into space!

ricercar · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 05 December 2009, 02:37:49 »

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rotflmfao

Xuan · « **Reply #15 on:** Sat, 05 December 2009, 15:06:25 »

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I just got a nastygram PM from one of our British members.
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Stephen Hawking would never use Comic Sans...

microsoft windows · « **Reply #16 on:** Sun, 06 December 2009, 10:07:35 »

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I love the title of the article where I stole the pic.

Isn't Spotted **** an STI?

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