A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego

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A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @02:17AM from the just-press-print dept.

eldavojohn writes "Making a Lego printer is pretty cool if you've never seen The LegoMakerBot. The creator has instructions on his site on how to make (out of Lego bricks) a machine that 'prints' Lego models — much like a 3D fabrication machine — after you model them in MLCad. The sped up video is nothing short of impressive."

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Re:sped up video? by AvitarX · 2010-10-20 02:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Do you mean it's something short of impressive?

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Oh my dear god by SmallFurryCreature · 2010-10-20 02:27 · Score: 4, Funny

The builder made a colossal mistake. He included a design readable by the machine to build itself. This is how Skynet REALLY got started!
We are doomed!

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1. Re:Oh my dear god by hcpxvi · 2010-10-20 02:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Meh. I, for one, welcome our new self-assembling, replicating lego overlords.
2. Re:Oh my dear god by bertoelcon · 2010-10-20 02:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Meh. I, for one, welcome our new self-assembling, replicating lego overlords.
  Oh crap, am I the only one who thought of Replicators from Stargate?
  
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Re:Amazing! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 02:34 · Score: 2, Funny

A Lego Command and Conquer machines?
Or perhaps you meant, Computer Numerically Controlled?
Re:Amazing! by decipher_saint · 2010-10-20 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Self-replicating Lego machines? That would be the end of bare feet as we know it!

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Re:sped up video? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-20 02:35 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm sorry but I disagree that the sped up video is nothing short of impressive.
Even at 16x, I quickly lost interest.
So, if you played it at 4x or 2x, you would slowly lose interest.
At that rate, you should play it backwards. It would instantly be your favorite footage!
Re:Amazing! by migla · 2010-10-20 02:50 · Score: 2, Funny

hmmm... On second thought, *literally* running out of legos is kind of intriguing. It would necessitate that the author is really tiny or has very large bricks...

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