You’d be hard-pressed to find two geeky pastimes that complement each other better than Lego and Minecraft: Minecraft offering an endless virtual environment to build your world one block at a time, and Lego offering a real world equivalent. It’s not surprising in that case that one of the more common requests I receive for Lego-based computers are around some …
If you interested in a full scale, functional, 2U rack server built entirely of 2000+ Lego than read on for more details and pictures! Back in 2017 Silicon Mechanics reached out to me about creating a full size 2U rack server for them to display in their booth at the 2017 SC show (SuperComputing Conference). After some back and forth …
What could possibly be better than a hardcore gaming computer housed in a custom-made Lego case? Well, I’m sure there are a few things, but for a lot of gamers, the fusing of computer gaming with Lego is probably pretty high on the list of things to geek out about. Just what does the Lego Gaming Computer do differently than …
What has 8 cores of Xeon power, along with up to 128GB of ECC memory, and offers terabytes of super fast SSD storage? Why a Lego Server, of course! Over the years of building Lego Computers I’ve received requests for many different types of systems, and after building numerous variations of custom systems, I decided to design and add some …
How about a Lego Computer that’s just as customizable as the original but 75% smaller and 40% cheaper? Like many of the projects I’ve done, one thing tends to lead to another…. and another and so on. When I built my first Lego Computer about 5 years ago and posted it on my site, I got a lot of …
Lego + Computer = Lego Computer It seems straight forward enough – not a new concept by any means. But more often than not, it’s the most common request I receive: to build a Lego computer. This probably goes back years – to around 2011 – when the Lego computer system I built received a lot of interest. Since then …