HackadayMar 19

Teardown of a 2026 LEGO SMART Brick

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/teardown-of-a-2026-lego-smart-brick/

13Mar 19
Teardown of a 2026 LEGO SMART Brick https://hackaday.com/2026/03/18/teardown-of-a-2026-lego-smart-brick/
#Teardown #ToyHacks #Lego #Smartbrick
Teardown Of A 2026 LEGO SMART Brick

At the beginning of March this year LEGO released their new SMART brick, which looks like a 2×4 stud brick and is filled to the brim with sensors, LEDs, NFC and Bluetooth functionality, as wel…

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13Mar 16
LEGO Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe Without Electronics https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/lego-machine-plays-tic-tac-toe-without-electronics/
#ToyHacks #Lego #Mechanicalcomputing #Tictactoe
LEGO Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe Without Electronics

Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of the game made it possible for [Joost van Velzen] to create a LEGO machi…

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HackadayMar 16

LEGO Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe Without Electronics

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/lego-machine-plays-tic-tac-toe-without-electronics/

HackadayMar 13

Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/making-a-bladeless-tesla-turbine-generator-in-lego/

13Mar 14
Making a Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator in Lego https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/making-a-bladeless-tesla-turbine-generator-in-lego/
#ToyHacks #Lego #Teslaturbine
Making A Bladeless Tesla Turbine Generator In Lego

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1913, using the boundary-layer effect rather than having a stream of gases or a fluid impinge on blades. Recent…

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HackadayMar 5

LEGO Space Computer Made Full Size, 47 Years On

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/lego-space-computer-made-full-size-47-years-on/

13Mar 5
LEGO Space Computer Made Full Size, 47 Years On https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/lego-space-computer-made-full-size-47-years-on/
#Computerhacks #ToyHacks #3Dprintedcase #Casemod #Lego #LEGOspacecomputer #Macmini
LEGO Space Computer Made Full Size, 47 Years On

There’s just something delightful about scaled items. Big things shrunk down, like LEGO’s teeny tiny terminal brick? Delightful. Taking that terminal brick and scaling it back to a full…

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HackadayFeb 19

The History of the View-Master

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/the-history-of-the-view-master/

13Feb 19
The History of the View-Master https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/the-history-of-the-view-master/
#HackadayColumns #ToyHacks #Stereophotography #Stereoscope #Toy #Viewmaster
The History Of The View-Master

We are going to bet that as a kid, you had a View-Master. This toy has been around for decades and is, more or less, a handheld stereoscope. We never thought much about the device’s invention…

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