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."

Comments

I ask you kindly

[Lord Omlette]

mirror the poor brick before you slashdot it.

Great...we need another self-mobile http server

[wynlyndd]

Next thing you know they are going to gain sentinence and then we'll be stepping on them barefoot all the time.

First Slashdotted lego block too

[Rhonwyn]

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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!"

Next efforts?

[Chagatai]

Next thing you know, he overclocks his Duplos, builds a CPU case out of Lincoln Logs, and uses Tinkertoys as an eight-way USB hub....

Cruel, cruel timothy...

[JordanH]

Slashdotting a poor defenseless Commodore 64...

Have you no shame?

Re:Cruel, cruel timothy...

[JonWan]

Maybe they should upgrade to a Commodore 128. It runs at 2Mhz.

Re:Cruel, cruel timothy...

[sulli]

Almost as cruel as slashdotting a Lego brick!

Won't someone think of the children?

[soulsteal]

What happens when one of the bricks gets the Slashdot Effect? I forsee smoldering Lego structures and very frightened toddlers.

Talk about clusters of webservers!

[Seth Finkelstein]

I can't wait to see the experiments in configuration of server topologies.
Maybe there should also be little sysadmin lego-people?

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

Re:Talk about clusters of webservers!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now is the time to finally switch over to IPv6. Every lego brick can't possibly have its own IPv4 address.

Here's an idea:

[funkhauser]

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!

Server

[lavaforge]

I can't wait until somebody exploits a bug in this:

Bill, son, that's very nice, but why do all of your lego blocks spell out 1 0WNZ J00?

Now they've done it...

[Nick Smith]

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...

DMCA or no DMCA ?

[J.D. Hogg]

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.

Look what I found!

[Dog and Pony]

A sneak-preview of the new server-racks.

Re:This is sooo cool

[mlk]

Why do you need to be 10 yrs younger, just £150 lighter. ;)

mlk (will have to dig out his mindstorms set)

and in recent news

[ryusen]

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."

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...

[fmaxwell]

... all stuck together.

Re:Webstack

[autocracy]

Oh no! My lego brick has been owned by 1337 br1x73r!