Lego whisperer Simon Burfield has a knack for taking the plastic building toy well past the limits of what it was intended for. His specialty is building rideable creations including a full-sized wheelchair, and now a rather brilliant Segway clone. Read More >>

You usually have to choose between passing exams and being a mischief-maker in school. But with this brilliant Lego contraption created by NXTLOG member hknssn13, you can be both. It automatically grabs a sheet of paper from a stack, folds it into a paper aeroplane, and then launches it towards your target. Read More >>

If you thought that private, LEGO surveillance blimps were something from some kind of bizarre steampunk dystopia, you'd only be half-right. Two endeavouring LEGO tinkerers, Tyler Westmoreland and Chris Shepard, have brought such a thing into being using nothing but Mindstorms and a couple of balloons. Read More >>

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? Read More >>

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. Read More >>

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! Read More >>

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. Read More >>