Even though it doesn’t look like a Lego creation, the Gear of War Lancer pictured below is made entirely from Lego bricks and will even shoot rubber bands. The mechanism with the Lego design allows ...

Whenever I tried to make large mechanisms like that (but way less complex) out of technical Lego when I was younger, I always found that the twisting tended to make the gears push apart, jamming their ...

An orrery is a beautiful type of mechanical contrivance, built to demonstrate the motion of heavenly objects. LEGO happens to offer just such a device, built using its Technic line of blocks, ...

The original Antikythera Mechanism is not only simpler than its Lego counterpart, it's more accurate. Carol's device can predict an eclipse to within 24 hours. The original is precise to within 12, ...