Anybody who has a penchant for LEGO probably has a bucket or two of messily mixed brick somewhere in their abode—like sands through the hourglass, so are the pieces of sets once destroyed by los gatos ...

Sick of sorting bricks? So was 25-year-old Daniel West, until his skill and determination brought him to build the incredible "Universal Lego Sorter". Made from 10,000+ Lego bricks itself, along with ...

I don't know about you, but when I was kid I had boxes and boxes of LEGO that my parents bought me to keep me out of their hair. This LEGO wasn't sorted in the slightest, in fact it probably couldn't ...

Why it matters: For unleashing creativity across all ages, it's hard to beat Lego, the latest proof of which is given by Daniel West, creator of the Universal LEGO Sorting Machine. Combining AI, Lego ...

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Lego becomes more and more enjoyable as your collection grows, until the point when your morass of plastic bricks becomes so overwhelming that it’s impossible to find the piece you’re looking for. At ...

The next time you clean up your LEGO collection, you're going to wish you had this machine at home to do the dirty work. Built pretty much entirely with LEGO pieces (plus a Raspberry Pi and some ...

Introduction Does your community have single-stream recycling, which allows you to mix materials into one recycling container? Have you ever wondered how those materials all get separated so they can ...

In our opinion, the primary evidence of a properly lived childhood is an enormous box of every conceivable Lego piece, from simple bricks to girders and gears, all with a small town’s worth of ...

Have you ever taken an interest in something, and then found it’s got a little out of hand as your acquisitions spiral into a tidal wave of bags and boxes? [Jacques Mattheij] found himself in just ...

Each year, over 90 million tons of recyclable materials end up in U.S. landfills. Recycling sorting has been mechanized for decades in the United States. Optical sorters are one of the most ...