Lego! What Can't It Do?

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, it can make an Antikythera Mechanism, for one...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Wiregeek]

3d scanner, automatic seven-speed transmission (with reverse), factory, etc, etc, etc.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Rod.H]

Go from the ground to orbit and back. Although there are some who think it could make some pretty neat mini-sats.

[Jorlem]

Go from the ground to orbit and back. Although there are some who think it could make some pretty neat mini-sats.

Well, if you had enough of them, I bet you could build a decent tower. Imagine, a Lego tower that reaches to the heavens themselves, proclaiming the greatness of mankind for all to see!
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

[Matrix Dragon]

3d scanner, automatic seven-speed transmission (with reverse), factory, etc, etc, etc.

... Yet.

[Bob Schroeck]

3d scanner, ... factory...

As of October, Lego has released the MakerLegoBot, which is built out of Legos and builds Lego constructions.
The Lego 3D Scanner, though, has been around since at least 2007, judging from the post date of this video.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Proginoskes]

I can't be the only one who thinks that the music for the Lego Antikythera Mechanism is epic and perfectly appropriate. It manages to evoke Ancient Mysteries, "Science Marches On"-style Progress, and Newton's Clock/God the Watchmaker, all at once. If only it had some kind of lyric, I'd love to see what Doug's magegift would make of it.

[Wiregeek]

poop, I should have clarified - those are all things that Lego _has_ done.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Rod.H]

No I think that someone's still to make a 7-speed auto gearbox from lego. The gearbox I've seen & everyone knows of is a 6(?) speed clutchless sequential box with reverse.

[Jorlem]

The reverse doesn't count as a separate speed? It is negative, after all.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

[robkelk]

I was going to say "Lego can't feed me", but then I saw some stacking-brick candies in the candy store...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Rod.H]

Well I remembered it wrong it's a 7 speed + R box



It's still a sequential manual though.

However this:



is apparently a full 3-speed automatic gearbox, in the prototype stage with no reverse gear.

Oh and here's a 3 cylinder lego air motor

[Ankhani]

Let's see them put together a Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope or fMRI machine out of Lego =D
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[robkelk]

Apparently Lego has no trouble with http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=360977]futuristic WMDs...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012