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You’d be hard-pressed to find two geeky pastimes that complement each other better than Lego and Minecraft: Minecraft offering an endless virtual environment to build your world one block at a time, and Lego offering a real world equivalent. It’s not surprising in that case that one of the more common requests I receive for Lego-based computers are around some …
If you interested in a full scale, functional, 2U rack server built entirely of 2000+ Lego than read on for more details and pictures! Back in 2017 Silicon Mechanics reached out to me about creating a full size 2U rack server for them to display in their booth at the 2017 SC show (SuperComputing Conference). After some back and forth …
How about a Lego Computer that’s just as customizable as the original but 75% smaller and 40% cheaper? Like many of the projects I’ve done, one thing tends to lead to another…. and another and so on. When I built my first Lego Computer about 5 years ago and posted it on my site, I got a lot of …
Lego + Computer = Lego Computer It seems straight forward enough – not a new concept by any means. But more often than not, it’s the most common request I receive: to build a Lego computer. This probably goes back years – to around 2011 – when the Lego computer system I built received a lot of interest. Since then …
Often when I’m working a project, I’ll work through a series of ideas before settling on something that fits the bill. I try to write down these ideas and keep them around on the off chance that I could utilize them for a future project. Not long ago, I was working on a different computer project, assessing the cooling requirements, …
With every passing project I feel like my basement is being converted from a living only area, to a work and project area. Computers being built, gadgets being taken apart, Lego projects all around. I’m not complaining by any means, but I do feel as my basement becomes populated with more and more tech based projects that the environment is …