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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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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.
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:Proves... by CraftyJack · 2010-10-20 05:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

Slow down. He made a pick-and-place machine out of legos, and you're up to time travel and nanobots. It's nifty, but we're not really in the Hawking realm here.