{"id":6814,"date":"2010-10-20T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2010-10-20T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T08:00:19","slug":"recursion-lego-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6814","title":{"rendered":"Recursion, Lego Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/10\/18\/makerlegobot-is-made-of-lego-makes-things-out-of-lego-is-so-me\/\">MakerLegoBot is made of Lego, makes things out of Lego, is so meta it hurts<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Building things out of Lego? Lots of fun. Building a thing out of Lego that itself builds other things out of Lego? That&#8217;s totally mindblowing, and that&#8217;s what Mindstorm master Will Gorman managed here with his MakerLegoBot masterpiece. The machine takes input from a PC running MLCAD, a sort of industrial design tool for blocknauts, and then churns out anything you like &#8212; so long as it is comprised of 1&#215;2, 2&#215;2, 3&#215;2, 4&#215;2, and 8&#215;2 bricks. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All we need is a LEGO robot to play with the finished product, and we&#8217;re all set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MakerLegoBot is made of Lego, makes things out of Lego, is so meta it hurts Building things out of Lego? Lots of fun. Building a thing out of Lego that itself builds other things out of Lego? That&#8217;s totally mindblowing, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,58,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-toys","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}