So I had so much fun building that Lego crane the other weekend I went up into the attic this pasy weekend and dug out my meagre collection of Lego. I quickly realised I had no instructions, and onld a dim recollection of what sort of kits I owned (for instance, I knew I bought two small Lego Star Wars kits when Episode 1 came out). Here’s a shot of all the Lego, as I found it in the attic:
< What goes where?
It didn't take me long to find a few spectacular archives of Lego instructions online. I spent many hours sorting through them, trying to recognise kits I may own and assemblind them. Brickfactory was particularly helpful. Eventually my memory was spent and I was left with a smaller pile of bricks with no idea what they made. Then I turned to Peeron, which is a database of Lego pieces, cross-referenced to kits. I had, for instance, in my pile of bricks a white surfboard. I simply searched for Lego surfboards on Peeron, and from there browsed every kit that contained only one white board and easily found the one I was looking for.
Even though I didn’t have a great deal of kits, the Lego-sleuthing and assembling of what I had took many enjoyable hours this past Sunday. Here’s a shot of everything put together:
< Assembled
And here's where the story descends from "Oh no, he's now getting into Lego..." to "Oh my god, the man is insane." Suffice to say I made some purchases yesterday…
< Look at the size of it!
Details will surely follow 🙂
I don’t think you’re crazy, mate. The world would be a better place if more people played with LEGO. I laughed when I realised K. was also hidden behind all those kits. I bet you started with the AT-ST.
I think the insanity is in the purchases of Star Wars Lego. I’d be going for the new Technic sets and Mindstorms if I had the time.
The new Mindstorms has touch, light, sound and ultrasonic sensors and stepper motors and an open source dev kit; all you need for sentient robots!