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Flickr Find: An Apple Store in Lego land

by Robert Palmer (Nov 17th, 2008)

At the Austin Maker Faire last month, careful observers noted a small addition to a miniature main street created by the Texas LEGO User Group: An Apple retail store, complete with products inside. TexLUG created a town and space-themed layout that included working trains and motors. Other photos ...

The Lego Apple Store

by Mike Schramm (Oct 17th, 2008)

Man, for all of the gadget lovin', excellent software, and community power floating around the Mac crowd, this is the real reason why I'm such a fan of the cult of Mac: someone loved the Apple Store enough to make a Lego version of it. Just awesome -- look at the little nanochromatic iPods, the ...

Not quite 'The Brick,' but fun anyway

by Robert Palmer (Oct 1st, 2008)

It's many bricks, technically: Lego Bricks. Students at the San Francisco Art Institute used 2,588 bricks to build an enormous Mac Pro case. The design wasn't without its problems -- partway through the movie, three "Lego engineering catastrophes" forced the addition of a support beam under ...

Bricksmith 2.0

by Scott McNulty (Jul 25th, 2008)

It has been awhile since I posted about Bricksmith, it looks like Allen Smith hasn't spent all his time pining for more TUAW coverage. Nay! He has been working on Bricksmith 2.0, which brings some new features to this open source Lego modeling app. The renderings have been improved, part search has ...

iPhone-powered Lego vehicle

by Dave Caolo (Jun 5th, 2008)

If admiration of an iPod-powered Lego vehicle indicates that one is a nerd, then buy me a pocket protector and hike my pants up to my ribcage.The folks at BattleBricks have constructed just such a creature. Here's (briefly) how it works. There are two iPhones involved. The one on the vehicle ...

LEGO Star Wars goes Universal

by David Chartier (Apr 24th, 2007)

A long time ago, in a squarish galaxy far, far away... Aspyr media, in an effort to save Mac users of the planet Earth from certain doom and boredom, released a Universal patch for LEGO Star Wars. That's right: it's been a while since we've had to write about an app (finally) going Universal ...

Make your own iPhone, out of cake or LEGO

by Scott McNulty (Feb 2nd, 2007)

It would seem that some people just can't want to get their fingers on an iPhone (I'm looking at you, Dan). If you are a little crafty you can make yourself a placeholder iPhone to get you over the hump. Try this iPhone cake, which I am sure is much more delicious than Apple's iPhone (and I have it ...

LEGO Digital Designer

by Mat Lu (Dec 31st, 2006)

You may have noticed that we seem to have a bit of a thing for LEGOs here at TUAW. We previously told you about the open source LEGO design program Bricksmith, but now LEGO themselves have released version 1.6 of the LEGO Digital Designer. This cool little app lets you generate HTML building ...

PodBrix 1984 set

by Scott McNulty (Jul 31st, 2006)

It has been awhile since we have heard from PodBrix, purveyors of Apple-centric LEGO creations, and now we know why. They were hard at work in their secret labs creating the 1984 playset. Immortalizing the immortal 1984 commercial in LEGOs seems a worthy addition to the PodBrix line. As usual this ...

Bricksmith

by Scott McNulty (May 25th, 2006)

Bricksmith is a cool app that let's you tinker with a set of virtual Legos on your Mac. How cool is that? Plus, it is now a Universal Binary so Intel and PowerPC Macs can join in the fun, natively. Check out the tutorial to see all the cool stuff you can do with Bricksmith. Bricksmith is ...

Top 10 strangest Mac mods

by David Chartier (Apr 13th, 2006)

Behold, ladies and gentlemen: the Top 10 strangest Mac mods at TechBlog. Johnathan Ive's blood would surely boil if he were to feast his eyes on such mutant Mac modifications as the NecroMac of the PowerMac G4 Aquarium! I know we've linked to a few of these in the past as we heard about them, but ...

Podbrix announces new (large) macrofig, T-Shirt

by Dave Caolo (Apr 4th, 2006)

Podbrix, creators of great Apple collectibles like the Woz Lego minifig and the Podshirt, which is an integrated T-Shirt/iPod shuffle holder (how long before Apple asks them to remove "pod" from their name?), have announced the 1K Brix Macrofig. It's a 7" replica of the original 1K ...

PodBrix to offer Wozwear T-shirts

by Dave Caolo (Jan 16th, 2006)

The folks at PodBrix have done it again. PodBrix occasionally releases limited-run, Apple-themed Lego minifigs. Previous releases have included Woz, Steve delivering a keynote and "Mr. Brix," which is a small figure that attaches to your headphone cord. On January 17th at 9:00 PM EST, they ...

Lego Robots now Mac-friendly

by C.K. Sample, III (Jan 6th, 2006)

Just when I thought there wasn't any new hobby that could arise and completely eat up any paltry free time I might have, they make LEGO robots Mac-friendly: "The heart of the new system is the NXT brick, an autonomous 32-bit LEGO microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC, or for the ...

Podbrix Releasing Newest Product Today at 9pm PST

by Scott McNulty (Apr 25th, 2005)

PodBrix will be selling out of Mister Brix, their newest item, tonight at 9pm PST. Past items included a lego iPod dancer, a little Steve Jobs, an iPod shuffle shirt, and a limited edition Woz. So what is the deal with Mr. Brix?According to the good people of PodBrix this is the story, ...