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TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snap-snap-ping dept.

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."

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  1. First Slashdotted lego block too by Rhonwyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

  2. Next efforts? by Chagatai · · Score: 5, Funny
    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....

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  3. Cruel, cruel timothy... by JordanH · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdotting a poor defenseless Commodore 64...

    Have you no shame?

    1. Re:Cruel, cruel timothy... by JonWan · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Won't someone think of the children? by soulsteal · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Talk about clusters of webservers! by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can't wait to see the experiments in configuration of server topologies.
    Maybe there should also be little sysadmin lego-people?

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  6. Here's an idea: by funkhauser · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  7. Server by lavaforge · · Score: 4, Funny
    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?

  8. Now they've done it... by Nick+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  9. DMCA or no DMCA ? by J.D.+Hogg · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  10. and in recent news by ryusen · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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  11. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... all stuck together.