According to the German Ph.D student, using a combination of Lego blocks and smaller 3D-printed pieces can cut a 14-hour production process down to 67 minutes. If you can convert a design file ...

Once cooled, the plastic pieces are ejected ... but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. Lego has already been experimenting with 3D printing as a complementary manufacturing approach ...

The concept behind the build is as you’d expect. The duo effectively just 3D printed giant versions of LEGO pieces, with which they then assembled a large Christmas tree. It sounds very ...

YouTuber Matt Denton is working on the ultimate Lego project ... at HMS Sultan machined that custom metal piece for him. Another 3D-printing enthusiast also printed a longer brick for the chassis ...

At some point, those Lego parts could be custom 3D printed. Custom blocks are another obvious 3D printing target, as are, say, missing construction pieces. Carnegie Mellon Professor Golan Levin ...

While the scanner proved adept with larger, blocky pieces, reflective LEGO plastic posed challenges, requiring multiple scans for detailed accuracy. With clever use of 3D printed tracking points ...

Twitter user James Brown has made one piece (literally, a block) of his imagination into reality. All it took was a transparent 3D printed LEGO brick, a tiny OLED screen, and some ingenuity.