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Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life

Aug 20, 2022

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/20/23308217/lego-brick-computer-james-brown

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*These aren’t Lego bricks. They’re computers that look like they belong.* | GIF by Sean Hollister / The Verge; Video by James Brown

James Brown loves building weird displays. Like animatronic skulls, or mechanical bit-flipping cellular automatons. Or, in this case, an entire computer inside a mock Lego brick.

Not just any brick, either. I’m talking about the classic sloped Lego computers from our childhood spaceships, now brilliantly brought to life. They display fake radar scans, scrolling text, even an interactive homage to the Death Star trench run targeting computer that moves when you touch the exposed Lego studs.

@verge
James Brown bought the tiniest, cheapest OLED screens he could find. He wanted to build a keyboard, but his mind's eye soon saw an even more perfect combination. He tells The Verge he probably won't sell them — at least not without legal...

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James Brown loves building weird displays. Like animatronic skulls, or mechanical bit-flipping cellular automatons. Or, in this case, an entire computer inside a mock Lego brick.

@verge
James Brown bought the tiniest, cheapest OLED screens he could find. He wanted to build a keyboard, but his mind's eye soon saw an even more perfect combination. He tells The Verge he probably won't sell them — at least not without legal...

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