On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...

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If you had to guess the age of a person hailing from a country in which Lego is commonly available, you might very well do it by asking them about the Lego trains available in their youth. Blue rails ...

There’s something about Japanese-style Mecha that make them even more appealing when made out of blocky bits of Lego – and this 3D printed frame makes building a robot of your own design all the more ...

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A few Lego pieces provide key functionality, like an articulated dispenser head. Most of us have bent a length of solder into a more convenient shape and angle when soldering, and just sort of pushed ...

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Lego minifigures are displayed in a shop in Levallois-Perret, west of Paris, 2012. Lego minifigures are displayed in a shop in Levallois-Perret, west of Paris, 2012.Thomas Samson—AFP/Getty Images Lego ...

Given some biodegradable 3D printing filament and tasked with doing something creative with it, Vimal Patel built an extruder using Lego, attached it to a rather ordinary hot glue gun and ended up ...