These Lego bricks are brilliant! – Devices
Please Lego, go make these Lego bricks.
These are not Lego bricks made by Lego itself. No, an over-enthusiastic fan has done his thing. And that fan just happens to be an engineer that produced the following result. James Brown his name is and he likes to build weird displays. Like animatronic skulls, or mechanical bit-flipping cellular automata. Or, in this case, an entire computer in a Lego block.
cool lego bricks
With the bricks you bring Lego (even) more to life. What we have here are classic Lego computers from our childhood spaceships, now brilliantly brought to life. They show fake radar scans, scrolling text, and even an interactive tribute to the Death Star trench that focuses on the computer that moves when you touch the exposed Lego studs.
That’s great isn’t it, the whole thing is also powered by real lego bricks. Namely, the vintage 9V battery pack and bricks with electrical contacts that Lego discontinued in the 1990s. It’s enough to power a 72 x 40-pixel OLED display and an STM32 microcontroller with a 48MHz Arm Cortex-M0 processor and 16K flash. And those charts you see? Aside from Doom, which was a live video stream to the stone. He wrote the programs for this small computer himself. It will take some time, but the result is worth it.
Idea
The idea came to the engineer by chance. Last year he was browsing AliExpress when he saw some incredibly small and cheap 0.42-inch OLED displays. “That’s about the size of a keycap,” he thought. He was going to build a mechanical keyboard with a screen under each key, he told himself, but the project was slow. Now it’s over.
