This Elaborate Lego Mindstorms Factory Makes Just One Thing: Tiny Paper Boxes
It may be rather pointless, but it's still pretty awesome.
It may be rather pointless, but it's still pretty awesome.
I seriously can't imagine any better use for Lego Minstorms than building a machine that can serve two types of Dutch beer, chilling them down to the perfect drinking temperature, opening the bottle and serving them. Can you? CAN YOU?
The folks at BrickIt were commissioned by a company called Dynaway to build this miniature, but impressive, Lego sorting factory to demonstrate the firm's manufacturing execution system. And lucky for us, they created a mesmerising video of it in action.
Have you made something awesome with Lego Mindstorms NXT? A sweet walking robot, perhaps? Wouldn't it be cool if you could control it from work? Or to have it Tweet when something happens? Well, the future is now!
He created one of the first Rubik's Cube solving Lego bots, and even used Mindstorms to tackle Sudoku puzzles. And while Hans Andersson's latest Lego marvel — a digital clock called the Time Twister — may be a little mundane, it's certainly no less impressive.
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