Make Your Own LEGO Curiosity Rover 35
LinuxOnEveryDesktop writes "Stephen Pakbaz designed a custom Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory Rover set, complete with PDF build instructions and parts lists. There's a dearth of official LEGO sets to do with Curiosity, but if the Cusoo listing gets to 10,000 votes that could change..." I like the idea of LEGO asking for public input, but find it slightly annoying that they require registration to do it; an anonymous "thumbs-up" would be nice.
Thumbs Up! (Score:5, Funny)
...an anonymous "thumbs-up" would be nice.
Thumbs up, brother!
different length of wire (Score:1)
Prof. Farnsworth: Let me show you around. That's my lab table and this is my work-stool. And over there is my intergalactic spaceship! And here's where I keep assorted lengths of wire.
Fry: Whoa! A real live spaceship!
Prof. Farnsworth: I designed it myself. Let me show you some of the different lengths of wire I used.
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My son, 9 years old and a futurama freak, built his own Curiosity out of his Lego collection (inherited from his sisters and added to over the last few years as well-- two suitcases full of parts and pieces) after watching the landing video and seeing the hoopla at the landing and the photos, he went to his room and returned an hour or so later... well maybe it isn't as perfect as what you get from a clean design, but he had the oven, the robot arm and the wheel layout, pretty awesome.
(proud poppa thumps c
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Here's another that would look great on any Slash-geek's desk: a LEGO Death Star clock I love the lightsaber clock hands!
http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/16974 [cuusoo.com]
Wow, nice clock! I love it. Hope this gets made into an actual set. Supoorted!
Use your slashdot user name and register (Score:2)
Fellow Nerds!
If you just spend a minute registering, WE CAN GET THIS DONE! I mean how many slashdotters are going to see this article and say: "I want one!"
I used my slashdot name and password, it was easier that way.
I wonder if groupon(?) would put together some sort of discount for purchasing these.
Too small, not sophisticated enough (Score:5, Insightful)
It's actually a tiny rover made with a few dozen pieces, with no built-in engine or the like.
Please wake me up for something the size of the Millenium Falcon:
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Millennium-Falcon-7965 [lego.com]
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I agree, this one is way better:
http://hackaday.com/2012/08/06/curiosity-landed-heres-the-lego-version/
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...which is why I'm going over to bricklink or whatever it's called and ordering these parts. My desk needs Curiosity!
They require registration... (Score:5, Informative)
Because they don't want something like this posted on some nerd site only to have a million nerds click "support" when they have no intention of ever buying it (notice you have to say how much you'd pay and how many you'd buy? They're trying to figure out if it's worth it for them to build.).
The same thing happened to the Winchester Pub from Shaun of the Dead after Simon Pegg plugged it on Conan... and LEGO said they weren't going to make it despite getting 10k votes. Granted, they said because the movie was too violent and didn't fit their core demographics... but they do Lord of the Rings, so they can wantonly apply whatever excuses they want to not make sets - and in this case, I suspect it's because they knew 10k Shaun of the Dead fans weren't going to pay $200 for a LEGO Winchester.
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NASA fundraiser (Score:5, Interesting)
NASA is always in budget trouble lately; they ought to more actively seek merchandising partnerships to raise funds.
Making it is easy! (Score:1)
Really, that model is nothing.
The real trick is to get it to Lego Mars.
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The real trick is to get it to Lego Mars.
Yes, because it's sold separately..
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Lego has done this before (Score:2)
They released two sets in 2003 to tie in with the Spirit and Opportunity missions.
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large rover [brickset.com]
Rover, lancher and orbiter [brickset.com]
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Also
Remote control Sojourner from 1999 [rebrickable.com]
welcome to the 1990s, timothy. (Score:3)
> an anonymous "thumbs-up" would be nice.
So would vote-stuffing scripts. This is why we can't have nice things.
Nice, but... (Score:2)
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Better link (Score:1)
The link in the article was slashdotted, but here' a working one on the lego cuusoo site:
http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/3431 [cuusoo.com]
People have been 3d printing models for a week now (Score:2)
It's nice and all that Lego might be releasing an official design of rover, but models of the curiousity rover for 3d printing have been available for roughly a week now already and are begining to enter 2nd/3rd gen revisions...we just gave one away this morning that we printed last night for a childs birthday party.
Lego these days is about robotics and First Lego League Competitions....for models, we can print or create our own....same for legos pieces themselves.
If you can afford to buy your child the occ
Ouch! (Score:1)