A printer out of LEGO from 14-year-old inventor

Will put to shame those who think LEGO fun for children, a frivolous thing. It turns out that with this designer you can open all the new horizons of their activities. For example, to create a perfectly working printer, as did fourteen-year-old guy named Leon Overweel (Leon Overwheel).

With the help of LEGO, as we already know, you can create not only a toy car and at home, but quite serious, "adult", things such as the Large hadron Collider, the greenhouse or the camera. But an ordinary American teenager made out of blocks that the designer of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT printer (or PriNXT).





Rather, PriNXT is not even a printer, this is a real robot who can draw. The described design includes hundreds of blocks of LEGO, metal parts, motors, wires, sensors and the holder for the marker, because with it, the printer leaves the image on the paper.





Of course, the image is monochrome, not full color, and his palette depends on the color of the marker. Moreover, creates PriNXT is not very accurate and detailed drawings (they can be compared to images issued by dot matrix printers). Marker is in this printer can only move along four axes, allowing the oblique and curved lines.





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