Comments on: The Escape of the Lego Virus http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-escape-of-the-lego-virus/ The Crowd-Sourcing of Intelligent-Design Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Borenstein http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-escape-of-the-lego-virus/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 Greg Borenstein Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:16:31 +0000 http://www.genomicon.com/?p=3678#comment-1020 Also how long do you think it will be between when they get the first version of the Open Source Printer working and when it does 3d? Also how long do you think it will be between when they get the first version of the Open Source Printer working and when it does 3d?

]]> By: Greg Borenstein http://www.genomicon.com/2010/01/the-escape-of-the-lego-virus/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 Greg Borenstein Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:52:50 +0000 http://www.genomicon.com/?p=3678#comment-1019 I'm in a Mechanisms class at ITP and we just had an assignment this week where we had to put together one of the complicated Lego moving parts kits (the ones that are sub Mindkits, but still have lots of gears, chains, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvArp8aYx8 For that same class, I'm also using Lego to prototype something I plan to build with real McMaster-Carr gears and laser cut wood, a thaumatrope player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvArp8aYx8 Lego has solved so many of the annoying parts of building things that move: getting the precisely right distances between gears so that they mesh correctly, a good library of shafts/couplers/connects/gears/wheels/pulleys that all work together, etc. Somebody should build a web app that takes your Lego parts design (like from their store that you use to order custom kits) and turns it into CAD drawings for laser cutting with McMaster parts numbers, etc. I’m in a Mechanisms class at ITP and we just had an assignment this week where we had to put together one of the complicated Lego moving parts kits (the ones that are sub Mindkits, but still have lots of gears, chains, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvArp8aYx8

For that same class, I’m also using Lego to prototype something I plan to build with real McMaster-Carr gears and laser cut wood, a thaumatrope player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvArp8aYx8

Lego has solved so many of the annoying parts of building things that move: getting the precisely right distances between gears so that they mesh correctly, a good library of shafts/couplers/connects/gears/wheels/pulleys that all work together, etc.

Somebody should build a web app that takes your Lego parts design (like from their store that you use to order custom kits) and turns it into CAD drawings for laser cutting with McMaster parts numbers, etc.

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