We Can Rebuild Him, We Have the Technology

Nick Jensen (Nick Brick) is showing he is no slouch in CAD. I've always felt that the TLG cyborg arm was a little too 'heavily armored'. This pared down variant by Nick is quite refreshing and inventive. I'm also interested to see what you could do with that hole in the shoulder.

Nick states he has plans to have this made through C Ideas, a 3D printing and manufacturing company in his area. I can't wait to see the finished product!

I recommend browsing through Nick's Flickr stream. Not only does he have other CAD designs, he has several amazing Halo firearms built entirely from LEGO!

Thing-O-Matic from MakerBot Industries

Over the weekend I came across this article on 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot Industries on the Guardian website. Their product, the Thing-O-Matic Cupcake CNC, is a relatively affordable 3D printer at $649 USD. This is compared to other commercially available 3D printers which have been known to sell at prices over $35,000 USD!

Now it's still very likely that you'll have to learn the various 3D modeling and CAD software to create 'stuff' from the thing, but it seems to bring this technology well within the grasp of many.

If you are interested you can read the article at The Guardian, or go straight to the source and check out Brooklyn, NY based MakerBot Industries' website today.