Lego Chess Set - motorised, $32k, 100k bricks
Using 32 Lego mindstorms bricks, 100,000 Lego bricks (though adding up the stats from their site it's 97,015) and costing roughly $30,000 this Lego chess set that will be on display at Brickworld next week is truly amazing.
Check out the detail on the pieces, I love how the knight's legs move as it travels the board. Though I was really confused until I realised they HAD to move the pawn out the way before the knight could move.
The whole lot took a year to plan and build, led by 4 main people and helped by 23. Their site has more stats on how it was done and what it involved.
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Check out the detail on the pieces, I love how the knight's legs move as it travels the board. Though I was really confused until I realised they HAD to move the pawn out the way before the knight could move.
The whole lot took a year to plan and build, led by 4 main people and helped by 23. Their site has more stats on how it was done and what it involved.
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Jun 22, 2010. 5:31 AMPwn2own
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One word comes to mind "Skill". The level of detail in these peices are mind blowing!
My first concern when watching the video was, "How would the bishops squeeze between the other pieces?" But they thought of that. The other pieces move in conjunction with the bishop. :) This is really amazing.
That is so very good, whilst at the same time being "mental".
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I think the recognised term for people who have undertaken unnecessarily difficult tasks when easier alternatives exist (as I was branded for writing my entire 11,000 word dissertation in LaTeX markup by hand in a text editor) is "mentalist". Perhaps every Instructabler is a little bit of a mentalist :)
Having just returned from a Harry Potter themed Cub camp, this was slightly odd to read.
Very cool, though.
Very cool, though.
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