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Natasha Jay :mastodon: πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Tiny Lego Computers :lego:

James Brown, a WETA Workshop engineer, created some itty-bitty LEGO computer displays that actually display stuff. What it takes to build a tiny Lego computer...

He has a :mastodon: account btw
mastodon.social/@ancientjames

theverge.com/2022/8/20/2330821

#lego #tech

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Murdoc Addams πŸ§›πŸ»

@Natasha_Jay
Oh man, what I'd give for some of those. :blob_cat_aww:

Wilfried Klaebe

@Natasha_Jay Seen some of the videos months ago... but never had the ressources to redo those boards myself.

Also, I'd prefer some Β΅C that's not an RPi.

Winchell Chung βš›πŸš€

@Natasha_Jay

Yes, I saw that article when it first came out. Those computer bricks are made out of solidified coolness. I want them.

Allie @ Sin City Streets

@Natasha_Jay my eight year old self would've fought with my little brother over these *so hard*

Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin:

@Natasha_Jay it brings me a deep joy every time I remember that these exist!

Leeloo

@Natasha_Jay
Considering that some Retina displays are over 450 pixels per inch, it should be just about theoretically possible to put a full retro computer display in there.

Sebastian

@Natasha_Jay @MOULE I think I recognise the screens from the game Elite (the C64 version from the β€˜80s)

Natasha Jay :mastodon: πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

@Geeky_sebastian
Closest one certainly looks like Elite, you can see the docking port. Not sure on the other two tbh (and I played it on the C64)
@MOULE

Tvorsk

@Natasha_Jay @Geeky_sebastian @MOULE The middle one is an animated version of one of official LEGO "control panel" bricks.

A friend recently reposted this article which I vaguely recall reading years ago so I had the designs in fresh memory.

interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-I

Scroll all the way to the bottom for photo of three bricks (yellow, gray, white), it matches the white, even the two lights/buttons under the numeric readout.

Good chance the left one is the targeting computer from the Death Star bombing scene from A New Hope, but it might also be a riff at the gray brick from the same photo in the article.

@Natasha_Jay @Geeky_sebastian @MOULE The middle one is an animated version of one of official LEGO "control panel" bricks.

A friend recently reposted this article which I vaguely recall reading years ago so I had the designs in fresh memory.

interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-I

Scroll all the way to the bottom for photo of three bricks (yellow, gray, white), it matches the white, even the two lights/buttons under the numeric readout.

Spiffing Kaladin

@Natasha_Jay need to get this seen by Adam Savage (not sure if they have a handle here). He's mentioned an interest in the screen bricks a few times

EloPup

@Natasha_Jay that is awesome.
And good resolution aswell πŸ‘€

EloPup

@Natasha_Jay I think @_elena could be interested in this πŸ˜….
That would be a Lego x Raspi project πŸ˜„

Elena Rossini ⁂

@EloPup @Natasha_Jay OMG yes absolutely! This man is a genius!!!

Tangentially-related but we celebrated early Christmas yesterday (St Nicolas) and my niece got a Furby. That thing drove me bananas and my immediate thought was: can I hack a Furby with a Raspberry Pi and make it *actually* smart and more interactive? Sadly all the articles I found mentioned ChatGPT and Alexa integration. OpenAI and Amazon aren’t it for me. If you have any suggestions I’m all ears!

EloPup

@_elena @Natasha_Jay Hehe, yea, I feel like Furbies are sent straight from hell πŸ˜….

Puuh, tricky. Ad hoc can’t think of a FOSS solution really fulfilling the criteria. There are Speech-to-text solutions and Text-to-Speech, hard to make it really smart tho Iβ€˜d say.
Not an expert.
This could be a question to the community 🀷🏻

We have St Nicolas aswell in Germany, always a joy πŸ˜„πŸ‘πŸ»

zy πŸ‰

@Natasha_Jay i suppose it's not just a computer in a lego brick?

Arx

@Natasha_Jay 10yo me wants those for an Enterprise bridge.

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