http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Help please.]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/let me remind you that the probe is made of sewing needle. The subject may have a bit of a problem during the scan.]]>Mar 23rd 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
http://stason.org/TULARC/games/mindstorms-lego/7-Plural-of-LEGO.html

I remember there being a link to the official site a few years ago too.

@ Dan

That's because it's one piece, hardly a little bigger than a stud.]]>Mar 23rd 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
If you want to play that game, you shouldn't put a comma after the first of the two LEGOs.

(Ha, I corrected you AND used LEGOs correctly. That's right, I just won a fight on the internet. Almost as awesome as saying "First" on the second post.)]]>Mar 23rd 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/ Yeah, you almost had the answer yourself. The evidence is that LEGO is a company or a system, so the product are LEGO bricks. You have a "pile of LEGO bricks", can be shortened to a "pile of LEGO" but not to Legos (Urggh!). Just like you have a pile of Mechano or a pile of fish.


Likewise, LEGO Technic is LEGO Technic... Engadget once screwed up and used 'Technics' in an article headline about LEGO. Technics make fricking turntables, for goodness sake! See an Engadget headline with 'Technics' and you expect an article about fricking record players from Panasonic nee Matsushita.
Journalists have a STYLE BOOK laying down to them how things should be done in their publication. Looks like Engadget need to write/update/find/enforce one. ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
so suck my balls]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Yup, just like the US invented the airplane, the radio, the telephone, the light bulb, the computer, basketball, democracy, apple pie, and government corruption. ;)]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Parents didn't know any better because . . . oh, I don't know, lots of people over here didn't have any danish friends, and even if they did, the danes might not have been big enough jerks to correct their friends' kids. Compound that with--and this is the part that's going to shock you--we didn't have the internet back then, and looking that sort of thing up wasn't a simple matter. Seriously, if you lighten up a bit, it's easy to understand why many of us who played with Legos in the 70's and 80's never knew that Lego was the plural of Lego.

And now that we're adults, we feel like total tools saying things like "I used to love playing with Lego."]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Leg-os or Le-goes?]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://legos.com (LEGO has been very strict on making sure people know their name correctly, probably why it doesn't simply redirect).

@Bellzebub, it's leg-os (phonetically its like how you would prounance "leg" and say "O").]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://legos.com (LEGO has been very strict on making sure people know their name correctly, probably why it doesn't simply redirect).

@Bellzebub, it's leg-os (phonetically its like how you would pronounce "leg" and say "O").]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Yes, according to the "LEGO" company, the name is "supposed" to always be in capitals. If we were supposed to guess that by the logo alone then a litany of companies should be spelled with all capitals.

And, yes, technically, if anything should be pluralized it should be LEGO bricks, with LEGO as an adjective. But if that were true then there could be no such things as Treos. Palm wants insists that it should be the Treo smartphone, which no one uses. Not all smartphones are Treos, but all Treos are smartphones.

And you're assertion that "The plural of LEGO, is LEGO." is also incorrect. Lego is a brand and a brand can't be plural. So, "LEGO are cool" is exactly as incorrect as "Legos are cool."

So I choose to say, "Legos." At least it sounds gramatically correct.]]>Apr 29th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://cache.lego.com/downloads/aboutus/LEGO_company_profile_UK.pdf]]>Apr 29th 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Little boys will do anything to get their grubby little hands on some LEGO!]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
wonder how you found -that- out :\]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Ya...I'm jealous I don't have one...you caught me -_-]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/the object it is measuring and records the coordinates (it records the coordinates when the needle touches the object).
Thus, it would be really difficult or impossible to measure a really complex geometric structure, since you'd need thousands of contact points. However, on simpler geometric objects it works really well.
A scanner uses a laser or radiowaves or sound (depending on the system and purpose of the machine) to measure an object that can be quite complex...]]>Mar 23rd 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/
Bottom line, you can generate the same dataset by either method.

PS, radio waves and sound don't seem like optimal methods for measuring small things, only large things like planets and the bottom of the ocean with any accuracy. Ultrasound doesn't have the accuracy you need other than taking pictures inside your body and it mostly uses the doppler effect to image. The commercial CMM systems (scanners as you say) I have seen either use lasers, monocular vision systems which read manually placed dots or interference patterns, or binocular vision systems that don't need much extra other than taking a lot of pictures and doing some fancy math.]]>Mar 23rd 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/23/3d-scanner-made-entirely-from-legos/Mar 23rd 2009 6:30PM