When I was 10 years old, I built a monster truck out of Legos.
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Their front desk is made of Legos, a project completed by their summer associates.
Check out the possibilities, from the Raspberry Pi (a single-board computer) to littleBits (electronic Legos).
With more than 700 Lego parts in total, you simply snap everything together as you would with regular Legos.
Legos are about putting together, then taking apart, then reassembling in new ways.
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This isn't the first time Traveler's Tales has taken aim at a popular movie icon and transformed it into LEGOs.
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Just past the Darth Maul made from Legos, next to the booth selling superhero cologne, fans jockey for pictures with Bumblebee.
Had I been sitting on that basement floor with these building blocks instead of legos, who knows what I would have built.
These Legos require a level of precision, and a measure of patience.
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Ipods, cameras, and cell phones seem as ubiquitous among the kiddie set as were Legos, slinkies, and camera-free Barbie dolls during my childhood.
Sometimes my brother would join me but for the most part it was just me and a lot, I mean a lot, of legos.
Headquartered in Vanderbijlpark, with clubs throughout Gauteng, South Africa, Trophy Robotics conducts clubs that give children hands-on experience in science and technology using Legos.
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There is a table of Legos for kids, and even a gift shop that the airport stocks with newspapers and magazines when passengers arrive.
It takes the building skills kids learn in Legos and makes them apply it and add to it in a simulated world where they fight for survival.
My advice in all of this is not to throw out your Legos altogether, or to refuse to buy the licensed set your child is clamoring for.
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Lego Builder You might think it is crazy to give my kids a virtual Lego set when they already have a gigantic Tupperware full of real legos.
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If you liked to play with LEGOs or Lincoln Logs as a child, you might be a bit put off by all the virtual game play out there.
Instead of all-purpose boxes of bricks, with no rules or instruction manuals, the company now sells Star Wars Legos and Harry Potter Legos, complete with step-by-step instructions and stated objectives.
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Then we went over to meet some seventh graders, six girls, and it was wonderful -- all girls -- who had started a science program after school that involved Legos.
After all, Legos are THE official creative building block tool of, well, the world, having developed and spurred the minds of young builders and makers everywhere since before the X-Files.
The Camp Room is decked out with two large flat-screen TVs, a library of videos and games (Legos, Connect Four, Sorry), three computers, water noodles, boogie boards and even microscopes.
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Legos unleashed my creativity when I was growing up.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos.
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Here are some more items for young girls, from books and electronic LEGOs to free iPad games, created by engineers who want to help change the ratio in math, science and computer classes everywhere.
Since that time, Legos have changed.
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Real Legos rely exclusively on perception.
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As huge fans of both technology and art, our team decided to play around with some QR art concepts, borrowing some elements from traditional graffiti (drips), technology and toys (pixels made out of legos) and incorporating some rounded lines, added movement and bright colors to show that there is more to QR codes than black and white squares.
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