http://www.brickpile.com Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks Sat, 03 May 2008 18:38:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the third year, the Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) is taking part in Maker Faire. We have a 25-foot square train layout and several additional tables, including a large Technic crane and excavator. The show is open until 6pm today (Saturday, May 3) and tomorrow (Sunday, May 4). ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/05/03/maker-faire-2008-day-1/ We had another meeting of the Bay Area LEGO Users' Group (BayLUG) today at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto. Members of BayLUG descended on the museum's meeting room for a day of buying and selling parts, schmoozing, and displaying our latest models. For the meeting contest, which had a ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/04/20/baylug-20080420/ The Bay Area LEGO Users' Group (BayLUG) took part in Yuri's Night Bay Area at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, on April 12 2008. The event was a cross between an airshow, a rave, and a mini Maker Faire (which we will be taking part in next month). ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/04/14/yuris-night-2008/ I've fallen a bit behind blogging about recent BayLUG meetings, though I did post the pictures online. Here we have pics of the meeting in January at Dave Porter's house in Woodside. We also had a meeting in Palo Alto on February 24, but I missed that one ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/04/14/baylug-20080113/ Exhibit of the Bay Area LEGO Users Group at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto, CA. Every year BayLUG puts on a "Living LEGO-cy" exhibit at the museum during the Holidays. We put it up in early December and take it down in early January. ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/03/06/moah-exhibit-2008-01-05/ There's a very interesting Interview on BoingBoing with Bjarne P. Tveskov, Classic LEGO Space Designer. I grew up on some of these sets! I started collecting Space LEGO sets in the late 1970's when I was a little kid, and spent most of my spare time building and rebuilding classic ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/02/16/interview-bjarne-tveskov/ I saw this picture on the MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR group on Flickr. Welcome to Flickr! Originally uploaded by twisted intellect ❧ With Microsoft's recent announcement of an offer to buy Yahoo! many Flickr users, including myself, ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/02/05/windows-flickr-live-photos-pro/ Today, LEGO celebrates 50 years! Read more about it on Gizmodo.[tags]lego,toys,history,timeline[/tags] http://www.brickpile.com/2008/01/28/lego-brick-timeline-50-years-of-building-frenzy-and-curiosities/ Thomas Johnson has done it again. The creator of the LEGO knitting machine has a new masterpiece, a braiding machine built using LEGO Technic pieces which creates a three-stranded braid. You can see photos and a really cool video (nice music, too) of the machine in action. I'd show ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/01/07/lego-braiding-machine/ My Track Layout Geometry page has been translated into Italian! A few days ago I received an email from Alex Cordero of ITLUG (Italian LEGO® Users Group) saying that they were interested in translating the page into Italian. He just contacted me to let me know that it was done; ... http://www.brickpile.com/2008/01/07/my-track-geometry-page-translated-to-italian/