So it probably doesn’t need explaining that combining Lego and Lasers is like every boys dream come true, and, even though I’m rapidly approaching fifty, having a ten year old son means I get to live vicariously through my mini-me. I definitely have aspirations of being a Lego Master of some description…maybe in another life…Enough about me…
So, this project was borne of a childhood wish I made to myself forty years ago. I used to count ‘studs’ over and over and never understood why there wasn’t a measuring tool on each box or in each instruction booklet. Well, once in a while they DO actually include a measure for the axles, but I figured there’s still an opportunity. Plus, it’s another excuse for me to bond with my son some more over a shared interest.
This really exploits the accuracy of the Glowforge. Lego is a precision toy. I love how bricks I owned almost half a century ago still fit together with those my son manages to convince me to purchase in Target in 2020.
After much designing in Illustrator, I decided to engrave the numbers and letters, and ‘score’ the rest. Had I scored the whole lot, it would have been much quicker than the 45 minutes it ultimately took.
You want feedback? You got it. That is a very cool measuring tool indeed. So after engrave fill in score lines with coloured Sharpies & wipe? The result is very sharp and clear.
Awesome project! You did a great job on it. And I didn’t realize that the Sharpie color fill on acrylic would look just as good as it does on tile; thanks for that.
They made angled LEGO when we were kids? I don’t remember that. I remember searching through my bucket to find the single peg LEGO, but no angled LEGO.
we were just in Florida a Week ago for my Cousin’s wedding. I brought back home all of my childhood lego. to go along with my girl’s current stash of lego. it is glorious.
I’ve got a small box of my childhood legos, and I kept them to create molds for casting that I did years ago. (They’re just a bunch of mismatched plain blocks with a base, but you can build any sized box to hold the silicone pour for your mold, and they are infinitely reusable. Pretty fantastic little blocks.)
I was slighty traumatized by something my younger brother did to one of my Lego creations. (well, not really, but I AM still irked by it.)
Late 70s / early 80s, when the orignal Battlestar Galactica was on TV, I designed and made a Battlestar replica. Core / base of the ship was 2 of the large green plates long, with the landing pods to the side, and end and front entended beyond the edges of the green plates.
I spent probably 4-6 hours building this creation, and my younger brother, who was probably 6 or 8 at the time, took it to the landing half way to the basement and “Let it fly.” Unfortunately, he did not understand gravity, or have a way to counteract it - though he did understand and applied thrust.
The result was something the Cylons never could accomplish on the show - sheer, utter, and complete destruction of the Galactica.
Needless to say, I was a bit miffed (slight understatement) - and as a result, punched him in the arm.
I was the one who got grounded for a week, and he got no punishment at all. /*** end rant ***/
