Video: The best feature of this elaborate LEGO Mindstorms miniature factory is how utterly useless it is in the grand scheme of things. As its name implies, the Papercube spends about three minutes diligently performing just a single task: Making a tiny folded paper cube.
You usually have to choose between passing grades and being a mischief maker in high school. With this brilliant Lego contraption, created by NXTLOG member hknssn13, you can be both. It automatically grabs a sheet of paper from a stack, folds it into a paper aeroplane and then launches it…
This remarkably articulate robot hand was supposedly built by Lego enthusiast ‘Barman’ using two Mindstorms NXT control units, six motors and some utterly brilliant engineering. But surely it’s from more nefarious minds than that.