YouTube content creator AlmightyArjen had a problem: how could he stop his LEGO model trains smashing into each other at level crossings? The answer, of course, is to mod in an Arduino to automate how ...

Lego train sets were introduced almost 50 years ago, and since then, one thing has been constant: the trains connected with magnets. While this is a supremely simple means of connecting locomotives to ...

YouTube member AlmightyArjen has published details and a video of an awesome LEGO pneumatic compressor which has been automated using a little Arduino programming and hardware. Watch the demonstration ...

While the basic concept of LEGO bricks might have changed little since the mid-20th century, some components such as motors and sensors are still affected by technological progress and end up obsolete ...

In one of the finest examples of what overly-entitled, First World westerners get up to during cold, winter months, a Frenchman called Maximilien has raised the useless-applications-of-technology ...

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