An engineering student lacking the funds for a Makerbot created one himself with what he happened to have available: a box of Lego. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

As a kid, Jason Allemann always loved building stuff with LEGO bricks -- but now that he's an adult, his brick-stacking game is on a whole different level. On his website, JK Brickworks, Allemann ...

As cool and wonderful as Lego is, those plastic bricks can be tricky to handle if you want to step up from mere constructive play into serious custom-built prototyping. UberBlox hopes to fill that gap ...

Following in the likes of MakerBot and RepRap, Will Gorman at BattleBricks has created a new 3D printer that you can build yourself. There's only one caveat: it's made of Lego. The MakerLegoBot is ...

It has been used to build a life-sized velociraptor, the Batmobile and a six-foot replica of the space shuttle. Now, Lego is building human skin. Kind of. Scientists from Cardiff University have used ...

Instructables member, Gosse Adema has used Lego building blocks combined with Nema 17 stepper motors to create his very own and very awesome Lego 3D printer. The 3D printer was crewed using a number ...

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We have featured in many different types of 3D printer over the years here on Geeky Gadgets but one Instructables user by the name of “ W1ll14m “ has used the Lego EV3 Mindstorms system and a glue gun ...

SAO CAETANO DO SUL, Brazil, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A designer for Brazilian company Zoom Education for Life has created a 3D printer made almost entirely from Lego components that carves shapes from foam.

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 ...

Some people think the future will include a 3D printer in every home. We think if LEGO started producing these as kits we’d get pretty close. Introducing the home-made LEGO 3D printer… with a ...

LEGO parts are plastic. 3D printers make parts out of plastic. So the transitive property tells us that a LEGO 3D printer should be able to recreate itself. This one’s not quite there yet, mostly ...