Lego printer writes 'Hello World' with felt-tipped pen (video)
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted June 2nd 2010 2:10PM
posted June 2nd 2010 2:10PM
We've seen some pretty amazing Lego creations over the years, and this has to be one of our favorites. (Or at least, one of today's favorites.) A YouTuber named "horseattack" has assembled a Lego printer that uses little more than a felt tip pen to greet us all with a hearty "Hello World" (although we're sure it can write other stuff as well). And no sir, this isn't a Mindstorm kit... the design, coding, and construction are all from scratch. See for yourself after the break.
Is there anything it cant do!
@One Love
Feel love.
@One Love
I loved my lego.
@SeeKo
And I loved your mother. :P
@One Love This'd be even better if it were powered by Android too!
@One Love I've never understood why Lego is so much more iconic than Meccano. Meccano is way more educational and fun than Lego.
@crichton007 But then every single move would be fed back to Google? That would confuse them
@crichton007
No...it wouldn't.
@SeeKo i still love my lego
@Steve2000 What's Meccano?
Genius.
@The Remedy
I can't imagine myself working on a job like sitting on that printer and shaking my brains out.
Awesome! would probably be cheaper to run than a standard printer
@EdR Yeah, but don't forget about all those Lego people you need to pay. And the price of keeping a horse like that? Ludicrous I say!
@doyleman7
Slaves cost little money. :)
now that is awesome :P
That...is Amazing. Next up, Lego laptops...Oh wait...
I've said it before, and I will say it again:
Lego=WIN
@GenericMessage
And I'll agree with you wholeheartedly. That was pretty much pure, unadulterated win.
That's like a cross between Dot Matrix, and THE Matrix!
At 1:03, that guy riding some crazy awesome spinners.
Look at those hard working Lego people. I'm glad to see that even people less than 2 inches small can accomplish so much.
@Greg7388
Unfortunately, that's what she said.
I FUCKING LOVE LEGOS
@Nzad
I've seen some interesting things done to Legos. I'd I've also seen some strange robot-human partnerships in japan. But this, sir, is a bit excessive.
@Nzad Ahh.. ahh... LEG-OOOOOOOH!!!! Ah.... that hit the spot. *Lights a cigarette*
Neeeed... buy... Legos.... again...
In Helvetica, no less!
@collinrs
+1 To you good sir, for recognizing the font.
@Gamecheater
And +1 to the actual guy who did this for not using Papyrus. Hopefully James Cameron feels terrible about his decision...
Lego FTW
What's the PPM number?
@GaryZ Surprisingly its 30ppm. (Pages per millennium)
Hahaha that's awesome.
...man i'm glad i was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s.
we had legos, those magnetic building sticks--iqmaq i believe--and model cars/airplanes.
no wonder a lot of us turned out to be technophiles and engineers.
Stunning. loved the Lego figures. Pure genius
SkyNet is born!
Take THAT Lilliputians!
That's sweet. LEGOs can do practically anything.
This was done back in the 90s. It's pretty much just Lego Technic Kit 1092a. Looks like he made that kit and tried to change things to look different enough. The rails are there, the same connectors in the video, and very similar looking board. Just look at this photo: http://bricker.ru/images/sets/1092_brickset.jpg
Man, my browser's win buffer just overflowed.
@Loonie
That's terrible! With any luck, his win buffer was unsigned, then he just overflows to 0 win instead of negative fail.
@Loonie
The overflow was caused by the pure win that is... LEGO!!! XD
Want
Poor lego workers.... and we were thinking foxconn working conditions were insane!!! These poor little guys have to ride horses while working!!!
Sorry, but this is nothing new.
In 1985, fischertechnik launched a plotter
picture = http://www.fischertechnik-museum.ch/museum/displayimage.php?pid=2770&fullsize=1
PDF = http://www.fischertechnik-museum.ch/doc/Manuals/Computing/39460_BA_Computing-Plotter-Scanner_1985.pdf
fischertechnik = http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/index.aspx
@reivilo It's new in the sense that it's done with Legos. I think that still qualifies as pretty damn cool. :)
Shouldn’t this be in Engadget Alt?
I built this back in 8th grade in a electronics course. The kit was already already there but you did have to program the instructions.
whoever made that should be proud.