Hacker News with Generative AI: Lego

ASML made a $230 Lego kit version of its $380M semiconductor tool (tomshardware.com)
Lego Omnidirectional Vehicle (youtube.com)
ASML Twinscan EXE:5000 Lego Set (asmlstore.com)
Joining the ASML Lego Collection - the TWINSCAN EXE:5000.
The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) (interactionmagic.com)
Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let's hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous "2x2 decorated slope" is a LEGO minifigure's interface to the world.
A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas (theregister.com)
A working Turing Machine was this week submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.
A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas (theregister.com)
A working Turing Machine was this week submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.
A 23-person Lego team built a 1:1 scale working McLaren P1 using 342,817 pieces (lego.com)
Silverstone, England, 12 September 2024: The LEGO Group and McLaren Automotive have embarked on the toughest LEGO Technic challenge to date, recreating a one-of-a-kind, fully drivable McLaren P1™ made from LEGO Technic elements. And if that wasn’t enough, McLaren F1™ driver, Lando Norris has been enlisted for the ultimate challenge, to complete a lap of the iconic British racetrack, Silverstone, in the 1:1 scale LEGO Technic McLaren P1.
The Lego Great Ball Contraption (kottke.org)
The Great Ball Contraption is a class of machines built with Lego that transport small balls from place to place in many different ways.
Life-size Lego McLaren P1 can hit almost 40mph (theverge.com)
After releasing a 24-inch-long scale replica of the McLaren P1 earlier this year, Lego has now debuted a full-size drivable version of the hypercar built from over 342,817 Technic pieces and powered by hundreds of Lego electric motors.
Bionicle – my actual part in its origins (2015) (alastairswinnerton.com)
The Wikipedia page about me says that I’m known mostly for my involvement with Lego Bionicle.
Lego to replace oil in its bricks with pricier renewable plastic (reuters.com)
Lego plans to ditch oil in its bricks for pricier renewable plastic (cnn.com)
A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning (asomo.co)
Lego Product Idea: Technics SL-1200 MK2 Turntable (lego.com)
Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers (kottke.org)
Lego Technics 1200 (lego.com)
Lego's CEO on the business case for play (bbc.com)
Teenage Engineering's KO II Is Lego Compatible [video] (youtube.com)
Shoplifters Love Lego (cnn.com)
Designing a Lego orrery (marian42.de)
Escher's "Balcony" in Lego (2002) (andrewlipson.com)