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LEGO is exploring 3D printing as a potential way for fans to produce their own custom bricks, as a way to stave off all-virtual world building games like Minecraft. The plastic brick company – which ...

Washington - If you had a lucky childhood, tucked away in a corner of your cupboard was a gigantic collection of loose Legos. It was the culmination of dozens of kits and construction sets, collected ...

On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...

Lego is toying with 3D printing for fans who want to create specialist playsets with one-off characters. It could mean families designing Lego mini-me characters of mum, dad and the kids or using 3D ...

Instructables member, Gosse Adema has used Lego building blocks combined with Nema 17 stepper motors to create his very own and very awesome Lego 3D printer. The 3D printer was crewed using a number ...

Anyone who has considered purchasing a 3D printing pen that has a spare glue gun and some Lego may be interested in a new DIY 3D printing pen that has been created by Vimal Patel. The awesome 3D ...

Predicting the future of cutting edge technology is popular among pundits because prognosticating is easy – no license required – and there’s very little chance of ever being held accountable (unless ...

With 2400 LEGO bricks and a lot of patience, [Will Gorman] built a LEGO 3D printer. It’s similar to a RepRap or a Makerbot, but instead of extruding plastic, it uses pre-extruded building blocks (aka ...

A team of scientists from Beijing's Tsinghua University have reportedly devised a means of producing uniform embryonic stem cells with a 3D printer. These cells stack like organic Lego bricks and ...