My LEGO club BayLUG has a huge display at Maker Faire Bay Area for one more day! Can you come say hi tomorrow?
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See me at maker Faire this weekend!
The Bay Area Maker Faire has been an institution for 20 years. Since 2006 my club BayLUG has been exhibiting there and I’ve been there almost every year, and this year, the 20th anniversary, is no exception.
Makey, the Maker Faire mascot
I’ve been going to Maker Faire since the very first one in 2006. My club BayLUG has had a large exhibit there every year since the first one. I’m going to be there again this year, and hope you can come and say hi. In honor of the 20th anniversary, here’s my newest model, Makey the robot:
Angine de Poitrine
My latest original creation is the bizarre math rock duo from Quebec, Angine de Poitrine.
Brick Blast 2026
It’s been a while since we’ve had a LEGO convention here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bricks by the Bay, which I started in 2010 and ran until 2016, and which continued under able management without me until 2022, is over. But we just had a new convention, Brick Blast, have its first installment here last weekend, and another one is coming in October!
The Great American Road Trip – A BayLUG Collab
Every year BayLUG holds a holiday show in Palo Alto at the Museum of American Heritage, and for the past few years this has featured an annual themed collaboration. This year’s theme is a tour of roadside attractions around the United States, featuring models representing a variety of places around the country.
Bricks Cascade 2025
Hi, I still exist! Some of you may have even seen me in Portland when I went up for the Bricks Cascade convention a couple weeks ago.
Advent 2023
I can’t believe it’s already December and time to crank up the old Advent Calendar engine once more! This year I purchased two of the available five calendars LEGO has released: Friends and Marvel. Like with last year, I’m doing daily YouTube videos as well as blog posts, so choose whatever medium you like… Starting on Day 8, I also designed original MOCs from the leftover parts – instructions are in a separate post. As usual, each post was originally a separate blog entry, starting with Day 1, and continuing with a daily post about that day’s advent models. However, to clean up the site, I’ve condensed all those daily posts to a single post per year. Here’s the 2023 edition.
Like last year I chose not to do all 5 of the Advent calendars LEGO publishes, just these two. But if you want to build the others, here are some links to them on Amazon: City, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. (But please don’t support Harry Potter, due to the transphobic political views of J. K. Rowling.)
Brickpile YouTube Channel – Brickworld 2011 Videos
I’ve started a new YouTube channel for Bill Ward’s Brickpile. I’ll be adding videos from LEGO events, and maybe even some original content, tours of my MOCs, etc. So far I’ve just published two videos, which form a 2-part walk-through of Brickworld from 2011:
My Coast Guard helicopter featured in YouTube video
A photo of one of my creations was (very) briefly featured in this video:
My Video of BrickCon 2008 (Part 2) on LAMLtv
As promised, I made a second episode for LAMLtv about BrickCon.
My Video of BrickCon 2008 (Part 1) on LAMLtv
At BrickCon 2008, I shot video of a lot of models on display and interviewed a few people. The result has just been released as an episode of LAMLtv, the new video podcast arm of LAMLradio. This episode features interviews with Simon Kent, design lead at Lego Creator in Denmark, and Jenn “The Brick Chick” Wagner, as well as footage of models on display.