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Welcome, Dear Readers, in 2014. The NXT STEP has something nice for you yet: an EV3 machine by Daniele Benedettelli that makes small LEGO® ducks in random variations.

This is the first video of the full functionality of the Lego Mindstorms - Factory 2.0 project. All video was recorded during the LegoWorld 2010 event in Zwolle (The Netherlands) from October 20th until October 27th. The factory is capable of building virtually anything using the 95 types of bricks available in the warehouse. Models for the factory are designed using Lego Digital Designer (LDD) and are interpreted by custom written Windows software (For an example of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ki6d8JM7nc ... After interpreting the LDD model building instructions for the factory are generated and are sent to the master NXT of the factory. Creator: Martijn Bosgraaf (Dryw Filtiarn) Total construction time: 4.5 months (June 2010 until October 2010) ~ 150 hours of Lego building + ~ 100 hours of programming (5 NXT's + LDD model processing software) Total amount of bricks: Estimated to be around 25.000 Warehouse: 95 different bricks with a total of 1520 bricks in stock Maximum ...

EDIT : You can see a robot that does this sort of thing here . This week's inspiration is somewhat advanced: construction robots. Can you make a robot that builds something, on its own, out of LEGOs? It doesn't have to be another robot, or even something very complicated. You could have a robot build a wall, for example. Or you could have a pallet of pieces, arranged in the right order, that a robot selects and puts together on a workspace. You can see some (very) elaborate examples of construction robots in the Aircraft Factory and Car Factory . Obviously, you probably wouldn't make something like this, but maybe a small, simpler, version would be possible. Let us know if you make one! -Jonathan P.S. See other posts in this blog series here .