Lego Museum, Prague

A fun museum for kids and adults to visit is the Lego Museum in Prague. On our recent trip to Prague, we enjoyed looking at the models and playing with the Lego.

A large Sydney Opera House

And a small Sydney Opera House

A large architectural model of the Czech National Museum (front)

A large architectural model of the Czech National Museum (inside)

Many global visitors have added their flags to the map

My attempt at a Silver Fern flag

There were push-button controls for some of the Technic Lego models

A town with a train

The Little Mole "krteček" is a famous Czech cartoon character

The Millenium Falcon

More Star Wars models

R2D2

The cubic structural evolution project: Olafur Eliasson

On our travels in New Zealand we visited the Hastings City Art Gallery and we interacted with an exhibit:

The cubic structural evolution project, 2004, is a hands-on installation by Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson. Comprising thousands of pieces of white Lego bricks scattered on a large table, the work invites Gallery visitors to become ‘architects’ by using the Lego to create endlessly re-forming structures limited only by imagination.Towering cityscapes emerge out of the rubble of Lego bricks and constantly evolve as new visitors contribute to the work through construction, modification, destruction and re-construction – processes inherent to the lifecycle of any metropolis.

My children and nephews changing the sculpture 

It was fun to construct and add our versions of buildings, ladders, Donkey Kong, King Kong and other creations to the large white Lego structures.

The exhibit continues until 28 August 2016

A house that catches the sun

This amazing award winning house in Australia can chase the sun. Built on a huge lazy susan, the house rotates 359 degrees for a change of scenery at the touch of a button.

Amazing house truck

Small portable houses don't need to be rectangular. This amazing house truck transforms into a roomy castle!

Open Source Prototyping/Construction Toy

Here's an interesting gadget for constructing all sorts of stuff with recyclable materials.

Strawbees is a fantastic prototyping toy for makers of all ages helping you build huge mechanical objects from standard straws and cardboard!

Strawbees creators, Creatables lets you create the connectors with the MakeStation, a manual die cutting machine that turns waste materials into useful objects.

Cool jobs

Learn about the cool jobs some people have in these Yahoo Second Act videos:

• Lego artist Nathan Sawaya left behind his job as a corporate attorney to play full-time with his favorite childhood toy.
• Musician Roderick Romero has built treehouses for Sting, Donna Karan, Val Kilmer and Julianne Moore.
• Ten years ago, Jay Shafer downsized to an 89-square-foot house and reinvented both his lifestyle and career in the process.
• Inventor Mark Kirkland poured a decade of work into launching his sandwich in a can- and with it, his new career as an entrepreneur

A Day Made of Glass

Glass is amazing stuff and this video shows just some of the technology made possible with glass.



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The Falkirk Wheel

Just over a year ago we visited the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. An amazing piece of engineering that has replaced a complex system of locks and has helped to revive canal boat tourism.

A boat entering the bottom of the wheel.

Another boat entering next to ours before we go down again.

The Falkirk Wheel in action.

Using Archimede's principle of displacement, the Falkirk Wheel uses very little energy to lift the boats up and down in rotating balanced tanks.

Read more on Wikipedia.

Living small

Jay Shafer makes small houses. Real small.

As seen on Yahoo. Learn more at Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.