ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

Come and visit Brickworld Indy 2012 on March 10 & 11, 2012 in the Indiana Convention Center. From 10am to 6pm on Saturday and on Sunday from 10am to 5pm. Come and see 18,000 square feet of: Displays made of LEGO bricks * Interactive MINDSTORMS® robotic games Mosaic pictures that you help build IndyLUG creations and much more Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of Brickworld!!! Daily admission: $6 for kids, $9 for adults Brickworld is a proud sponsor of FIRST® LEGO® League Interview with Steve Hassenplug and Bryan Bonahoom taken from Brickworld Indy: wishtv.com

From the same team that did Monster Chess come Super Robo Rally, based on the board game "Robo Rally" Robo Rally the board game While it doesn't look like it has as many game pieces as Monster Chess, the game board itself looks considerably larger (That's Monster Chess in the background). Each one of those game squares is completely LEGO and I'm guessing they're all 32x32 baseplates. Now 32 x 32 baseplates = 1024 pixels and with 12 x 12 game tiles shown in the video that equals 147,456 pixels.  While I don't think they used 1x1's for every pixel, that's still a lot of LEGO!   Steve's blog -  http://teamhassenplug.blogspot.com/  has lots more detail about how it was made as well as plenty of great photos.  Looks like it was a real hit at Gen-Con and Brickworld. ****Update from Steve Hassenplug himself**** Damien, the baseplates are actually 48x48 or ~330k 'pixels'. If you look close, the board has an 8-stud 'warni...