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

Izmir International Fair 2016 - theme Innovation

We recently attended the annual Izmir International Fair. The theme this year was innovation and the exhibits included a mini maker faire.

Suburban train simulator

Virtual reality parachute

Virtual reality cycling

Virtual reality submarine

Mini Maker Faire 

Lots of 3D printers on display

Solar powered boat

Solar powered car

A drone motorcycle?

Robot arms

Intricate laser cutting laminated to produce interesting geometric effects

Robots

Octocopter

CNC producing a label

Laminated cardboard and LEDs 

Laminated cardboard sculpture

Wooden construction blocks. Not available on the App Store

Animatronics

Model of Artemis Temple constructed from sugar cubes

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

Lego X - Digital modelling with Lego bricks

Gravity, the designers of a pen and a pad specifically designed for sketching in the augmented environment have also developed Lego X - location aware lego bricks for creating digital 3D models.

Lego X from Lego X on Vimeo.

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.

Imagine if you were toy-sized

Red Bull and street trials rider Danny MacAskill spent a couple of years making this video of Danny's skills as he rides inside his imagination. Check out the behind the scenes website.

For the MuzGadget sisters

Here's a Rube Goldberg machine for all the MuzGadget sisters and nieces and anyone like my daughter who doesn't like pink.

The Brick Thief

Lego is so much fun!

What did the gadget elves bring you this Christmas?

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Our household was blessed with 432 rare earth magnetic spheres, a staple-free stapler and a ThinkGeek catalog - thanks Bro! Also in the gadget gifts were a couple of headsets, chemistry set, a train set and "Built to Last" by David Macaulay.

Thanks everyone.

Happy New Year!

Robotic Balls

Controlled by a smart phone, these robotic balls (in prototype) from Gearbox have a gyroscope, compass and other cool technology built in so when you tilt the phone, the ball moves in that direction. Hackable, the ball's serial port can be used to control other devices. Fun cat teasing toys.

This startup says "play with our balls, please!"

Sally Sells You Stuff

Sally profiles tech gear in this funny live action comic series.

Model railroads - the analog version of SimCity

When I was about 8 years old, a friend's Dad had a model railway set up in their shed. It was nothing compared to this huge layout of the Diablo Valley Lines (imaginary railroad company) at Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society.



Much more at Giant Model Railroad Is an Analog SimCity | Raw File | Wired.com

Petaminx puzzle

In November, I blogged about the Pentultimate. The latest development from PuzzleForge is the Petaminx.

This amazing custom built puzzle took hours to make. It has 975 parts (not counting the 1212 hand stuck stickers).

Read more about the make at The Making of The Petaminx

The Pentultimate

The Making of The Pentultimate

This dodecahedron (12 faced) puzzle is amazing.
 
Check out how it was made at
The Making of The Pentultimate

Riding the Robot Caterpillar

My kids rode a robot caterpillar at the local mall the other night.

The guy controlling seemed to have a wireless remote control to start and stop it, but otherwise it followed the black lines on the floor.

Christmas Gadgets

The Christmas season is approaching. Rapidly. It usually sneaks up on us, but this year we'll be ready for it. Soon it will be time to put up decorations and lights. Using the most gadgets possible.

We have had a very small tree for the last few years. We bought it when we were moving around a lot and needed something easy to move. It stands about 30 cm tall and has fibre optics in the branches lit by alternating red and white lights in the base.


We're thinking of getting something a bit bigger this year (so we can fit more gadget presents under it). Any suggestions for customizing, upgrading or generally improving on the standard garden variety tree would be appreciated.

Frigits

Here are some cool gadgety toys to stick on the fridge and build interesting contraptions with.

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures

Wind powered kinetic sculptures.

Sanitarium Gizmos and Gadgets promotion

Somehow I have been invited to get 10 bonus points! But I suspect I need to buy cereal from shops in NZ to fully participate. Perhaps some of the other MuzGadget brothers would like gizmos and gadgets with their cornflakes.

	The Sanitarium Gizmos and Gadgets promotion is on its way with great new bargains and free stuff for grabs! To kick start the 2007 promotion and get you one step closer to redeeming cool bargains or free stuff, your Gizmos and Gadgets account will automatically receive 10 bonus points if you opt in before 16 September 2007! Opt in now to receive your bonus points as well as further information and special Gizmos and Gadgets offers by clicking HERE - it will only take a minute. The Gizmos & Gadgets Team

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