Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand. [Balazs] from RacingBrick posed this exact question: can a 3D scanner recreate ...

An engineering student lacking the funds for a Makerbot created one himself with what he happened to have available: a box of Lego. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Some people think the future will include a 3D printer in every home. We think if LEGO started producing these as kits we’d get pretty close. Introducing the home-made LEGO 3D printer… with a ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

If you're one of those kids who grew up building and loving LEGOs, your heart probably skips a beat whenever you hear about a new life-size sculpture of everyday things, like cars or robots, or about ...

Lego isn’t just for building spaceship replicas and memorable scenes from your favorite franchise. Scientists in Wales have used the beloved plastic bricks to piece together a machine that grows human ...

Called the Educational SoftHand-A, created by Jared K. Lepora from Bristol Grammar School with guidance from his father, Dr Nathan F. Lepora of the University of Bristol, mimics the natural motion of ...

In gaming, people are in either one of two camps. In 2007 one camp was "Will it run Crysis?," which is still a meme to this day. The other camp is, "Can I put Doom on it?" The answer to the latter is ...

Can you build robots 10x faster and 10x cheaper? Yes, according to the CEO of a six-year-old Silicon Valley robotics company that has created a 200-module-strong development platform for autonomous ...