jtotheizzoe:

Scientists Use LEGO Robots To Grow Bones

It’s official. Your science is boring, and these people’s is awesome. Michelle Oyen’s lab at Cambridge has been working on growing bones using scaffolds and chemical engineering. It’s a painstaking process that involves hours and hours of dips in various bone-making chemicals in order to get a final product. Sounds like a job for a robot, right?

It turns out that Lego Mindstorm kits can do the job just fine, and for far cheaper than most robots. They plan on expanding their use to other projects in the near future.

This is so unfair. I mean, not only are they building bones in a lab, which is awesome, but they get paid to play with Legos! On second thought, maybe my childhood has provided me with a new resumé entry?

(ᔥ Co.Design)

the-star-stuff:

Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models

1. Curiosity

2. Space Rockets

3. Space Shuttle

4. Genetic Code

5. Bombs & Mushroom Clouds

6. Genetic Engineering

7. Robotic Limb

8. Periodic Table

9. ATLAS Detector

10. Magnetic Resonance Imaging

jtotheizzoe:

What’s that? Solving a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube via robot isn’t impressive enough for you?

Well then let’s solve a 7x7 cube with only a LEGO robot and a smartphone. How’s that Mr. Fancypants? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?

Digital clock made from twisting Lego towers.

It’s the latest Lego contraption: a clock that painstakingly twists to create a digital display.  Designed and built by inventor Hans Andersson, it uses the components of two Lego Mindstorms kits, as well as extra Lego Technic pieces. Behind the clockface, two microprocessors communicate via Bluetooth to control the display. The main computer keeps track of the time and arranges the minute digits, while the second device looks after the hour display and the second indicator.

I want one SO bad!

chemicalindecision:

Frog dissection a la Lego.

Love Lego? Love Martian rovers? I do.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover, in Lego (via Wired.com)