Ah, Lego. A cultural icon, the building blocks of dreams, scattered
inspiration awaiting the creative process. Lest we get too poetic, below
is a mere glimpse of rare and excellent footage we unearthed from
somewhere showing a 3D milling machine in action. The really impressive
part, of course, is it’s made of Lego. The part that would make you slap
your forehead is when the machine sculpts a face from a block of floral
foam. Impressive!
Here’s the precious video:
A certain Arthur Sacek is the genius responsible for this incredible
build. Without using much else aside from Lego parts and a drill, he
successfully assembled a worthy 3D milling machine. The next challenge,
of course, is building a bigger more complex beast to create even more
awesome stuff.
The pinnacle of Lego, of course, if large industrial machines
creating real products are ever built to service small-time
manufacturers. That would just rule the world and bring technology to a
new level. The beauty of Lego is it’s no longer confined to age groups
and a growing percentage of Lego users who simply ‘played’ with it as
children find more uses for it during their adulthood. We hope Lego
never goes away.
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