Slashdot Mirror
TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick
An anonymous reader submits: "Yesterday, Olaf Christ announced that he has the world's first TCP/IP-enabled Lego brick that can be used as a web server. Imagine the possibilities of connecting your collection of Lego Mindstorms to the Internet! He has ported the extremely small uIP TCP/IP stack to the Lego Mindstorms platform. uIP has also been used to run a Commodore 64 as a web server, and is ported to the 8-bit Ataris and laptop keyboard microcontrollers."
mirror the poor brick before you slashdot it.
[o]_O
Next thing you know they are going to gain sentinence and then we'll be stepping on them barefoot all the time.
"Dogs and cats, living together...it's mass hysteria!"
Server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load.
Please try again in a few minutes.
We killed it. The first lego block to take a step into the grand open world of the web, and its slashdotted beyond any sense of hope.
"Its worse than that, he's dead Jim!"
I'm not impressed.
Yesterday, Olaf Christ announced that he has the world's first TCP/IP-enabled Lego brick that can be used as a web server. Imagine the possibilities of connecting your collection of Lego Mindstorms to the Internet!
I would tend to think that if Christ's as powerful as everyone says he is, he would've done this years ago.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
--Chag
Have you no shame?
What happens when one of the bricks gets the Slashdot Effect? I forsee smoldering Lego structures and very frightened toddlers.
Maybe there should also be little sysadmin lego-people?
Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)
...image the inevitable frustration forthcoming when your little brother brings down your high-traffic portal to build a dinosaur!
Lego was nothing but red, square, identical blocks. You could connect them together to build larger red, square blocks. That's the real man's Lego, damnit!
sic transit gloria mundi
Imagine the possibilities of connecting your collection of Lego Mindstorms to the Internet!
That would be awesome! You could be the Biggest... Dork... EVER!
--
You're reading Managed Agreement.
Hook your Lego Mindstorm box up to the internet, attach a small LCD screen, and program it to check autopr0n periodically. Then it could drive around and find you to alert you to freshly-posted pr0n! YES!
Learn to Play Go
Bob: "Check out the new server cluster we got"
John: "uh... it's a big lego model of natalie portman"
Server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load.
Please try again in a few minutes.
Bill, son, that's very nice, but why do all of your lego blocks spell out 1 0WNZ J00?
Net-enabled lego-blocks, communicatng with each other... this is exactly how SkyNet got its start.
Sure, it starts with cute rocketships, next thing you know there'll be Hunter-Killer 'bots the size of houses, made entirely of lego.
To think that the end of humanity (until John Connor of course) should come out of Denmark...
Now someone can *r00t* my lego's and command them to take over my home?!?!
I SURVIVED THE GREAT SLASHDOT BLACKOUT OF 2002!
>has also been used to run a Commodore 64 as a web server
Come on folks, if we can't slashdot this, we aren't really trying.
I have to be a party-pooper, but doesn't this violate the DMCA ? and to my knowledge, Lego doesn't much like people who rev-engineer their brick.
Mindstorms is a great start - now all we need is the same technology embedded in Nerf guns, and I've finally got an excuse for ALL the toys on my desk at work :)
A sneak-preview of the new server-racks.
For some reason I just imagined the future breed of software architects to talk about scalability of systems build from Lego bricks:
-Our system is designed with scalability in mind, we use multitier software. Once the software is pushed to the limit, the scalability problems will be resolved in the hardware level. We will simply add more of these Lego blocks to our servers and there will be no problem.
In related news, a large army of Robots build from lego pieces is taking over Manhatten. These robots are looting every toy store in the area and are using more Lego systems to build more robots.
You can't handle the truth.
Why do you need to be 10 yrs younger, just £150 lighter. ;)
mlk (will have to dig out his mindstorms set)
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Enough crap connected to the net?
Ok, I'll go buy a Aibo and hack it so you can serve up web page from where you can tell him to sleep, pee, etc.
That would be usefull-ess
Microsoft responding to this new market has announced an IIS enabled lego brick. The IIS Lego Brick mesures 8"x5"x1", features a special edition of WinXP for Lego, and is fully .net enabled.
It's estimated reatil price is going to be $688.95 and will be available q3 of this year.
Inside sources at Microsoft reveailed a new "bumb" schema for "MSLego(tm)" that adds new "features," but may make it incompatable with industry standard Lego "bumps."
I believe sex is highly over rated... unless it involves me
... all stuck together.
I know what you mean, I'm really groovin' on this Open Sources Technology!! I mean, I've been installing Linux 7.0 at work and It's really cool. With Open Sources I like to have the C+ code right on my home machine. I can look at it and pretend I am programming it. I sent some patches to to Linux, but he forget to get back to me.
cpeterso
Oh no! My lego brick has been owned by 1337 br1x73r!
SIG: HUP
-Legion (watch this get modded down as a troll because some moderator can't read)