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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Event: PhLUG Brickxhibit2015 / Abrickadabra Lego Convention


Welcome to Brickstories' coverage of the Philippine Lego Users Group's (PhLUG) Brickxhibit2015 and Abrickadabra Lego convention.

Me and my hon Apple decided to break out our twin Lego backpacks for this amazing adventure and matching Lego shirts to boot.

Brickxhibit2015 is ongoing until May 3 and features MOCs (My Own Creations or what adult fans of Lego call their custom kits)  from most of PhLUG's great builders.

Once you've entered Resorts World's Newport Mall you are immediately greeted by a huge "I Love Lego" sign built out of a lot of red bricks.  The letters were made by Revjon Oblea with the bricks coming free from the Lego group itself.

Revjon Oblea made "I Love Lego"


Here's my hon Apple, my sister Richelle and Apple's nephew AJ posing in front of "I Love Lego"

Hon Apple, sis Rich, and AJ


Brickxhibit2015

After that it's a ton of Lego displays made by the talented sub interest groups (SIGs) of PhLUG.

The sigs are composed of (in order of display): PhLUG Mech (which used to be known as PhLUG MOC), Urban Builders, Force Legion, Kingdoms,  Garage, Armored Division, Starfleet and Minifigures.

Also among the displays are works of Team PMS (PhLUG's all-female build team) and a couple of other awesome moccers like Arthur Tanseco (Voltes V) and the Hope Christian Lego robotics team of David Ang.



The F1 diorama of PhLUG Garage SIG

One of my own contributions a P51 Mustang sporting the livery of the Philippine Airforce for PAD

My Lotus F1 car for Phlug Garage




PhLUG Ambassador Randie "Citizen Piper" Protacio giving the tour

My SIG - PhLUG Armored Division

Kids enjoying the PAD display

The awesome Kingdoms diorama which won "Best Diorama" of the convention

More kingdoms!

A slice of Pinoy life in Lego
(shown are mocs by Jergens Correa (angel's burger and Mark gotidoc (sari-sari store))






More pictures and updates later!



Monday, April 13, 2015

Event: Brickxhibit 2015 and Abrickadabra (PhLUG)

If you love Lego prepare for one of the biggest Lego exhibits the PH has ever seen.

Courtesy of the Philippine Lego Users Group (PhLUG), Brickxhibit2015 and Abrickadabra will unfold at Resort's World this April 2015.




Thursday, July 11, 2013

News: A Lego Supercomputer!

Due to work deadlines I have been unable to build any brick toy kits lately.  But in between making Android apps and writing courseware I stumbled upon this article from tomshardware.com:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Supercomputer-Legos-Linux,17596.html


It's a Do-It-Yourself supercomputer composed of multiple Raspberry Pis and a Lego framework.

Simply awesome!

What is a PI?

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.

- from: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs



This is the raspberry pi.  Notice the SD card beside it.

A quick overview of the Pi's major parts.


The Supercomputer:


The modular lego frame system



The team lead by Professor Simon Cox was able to build their supercomputer for the cost of around $4,000 US.  It combines 64 Raspberry Pi devices, 64 16GB SD cards and a modular framework made of Legos.

For those who want to make their own they can go on over to the University of Southampton's page: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/


Pictures from engadget.com  and http://www.raspberrypi.org

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Lego Story



The Lego system unveiled
This is an awesome video that tells the story of how Lego came to be.  All Lego fans owe it to themselves to watch this and learn about the history of their beloved Brick toy.

Thanks to Cabs for pointing me to this video

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Lego movie in 2014

I don't know how I missed this one but thanks to my brother I now know there is a Lego full length movie in 2014:

Here's the FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/TheLEGOMovie

The IMDB entry:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/


And the YouTube official trailer:

Truely exciting!

More details when I dig it up :)