Bill Ward’s Brickpile

It would appear that LEGO is working on a massively multiplayer online game! At least, according to this blog entry from kotaku.com, LEGO is working with NetDevil to produce a new online game where kids can interact using virtual LEGO bricks. And if you don’t believe the blogs, try checking out the official […]

Didier Enjary of FreeLUG (French LEGO users group) has compiled a great guide to advanced LEGO construction techniques. It explains in great detail the geometry of LEGO bricks, and how to fit them together to achieve some great effects. The focus is mainly on SNOT (Studs Not On Top) construction, and how to […]

I came across this article (thanks to BayLUG member David Simmons, via email) detailing how one family has coped with the stresses the LEGO hobby places on storage and work space in their home - buy a trailer and move the collection out there! That’s one way to solve the problem. Now if […]

I know this was posted a couple of weeks ago but I only just now saw it for the first time. There’s an interview on TODAYonline with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of LEGO, around his recent trip to Singapore. He touches on a very important point for LEGO fans - is LEGO […]

Found on the Classic-Space.com LEGO Forums:
Apparently the LEGO company is thinking about making a new set which would be a model of a car. Not just any car though - one chosen by the LEGO fan community!! That’s right, we get to nominate any year/make/model of car that we might want to see […]

Ever since LEGO started offering bulk parts online through the Shop-At-Home service, fans have been hoping they would come out with an online Pick-A-Brick where we could specify a quantity and color of brick to order. They’ve finally done it! The new LEGO.com Factory Pick A Brick service allows you to select bricks […]

LEGO is coming out with a new line of battery-powered, infrared (IR) remote controlled trains this year, and Larry Pieniazek has written a review. There’s a long discussion thread on LUGNET about it here (use this link to see the full text of all replies on one page).
UPDATE: The other new set in […]

LEGO has announced that the new version of Mindstorms will have open source firmware! This is very exciting news for anyone who likes to hack on robotics. While people reverse-engineered the original Mindstorms to come up with an alternative firmware called LegOS (which was renamed to BrickOS at the request of LEGO’s legal […]

At MacWorld I was talking to the LEGO Education (Dacta) guy there and he told me some interesting things about Mindstorms NXT that I hadn’t heard anywhere else.
I already knew that the FIRST LEGO League would be allowing use of both the old style Mindstorms RCX and the new NXT in the coming season. […]

A little over a week ago I finally got around to ordering a LEGO Mindstorms set for the first time. I’ve been a LEGO fan for years but never got around to trying Mindstorms, LEGO’s robotics kit that has been around since 1998. One big reason was that I usually buy LEGO in […]