We've come across our fair share of 3D printers here at Tom's Hardware. We've even covered a handful of clever Lego-based projects. This is the first time, however, we've seen the two meld together so ...

It has been used to build a life-sized velociraptor, the Batmobile and a six-foot replica of the space shuttle. Now, Lego is building human skin. Kind of. Scientists from Cardiff University have used ...

Following in the likes of MakerBot and RepRap, Will Gorman at BattleBricks has created a new 3D printer that you can build yourself. There's only one caveat: it's made of Lego. The MakerLegoBot is ...

In September 2025, the LEGO Icons Holiday Express Train set was officially announced, including the first mass-produced 3D ...

Sourcing human tissue samples for biological investigations isn’t always easy. While they are ethically obtained through organ donation or from tissue that’s removed during surgical procedures, ...

As cool and wonderful as Lego is, those plastic bricks can be tricky to handle if you want to step up from mere constructive play into serious custom-built prototyping. UberBlox hopes to fill that gap ...

With 2400 LEGO bricks and a lot of patience, [Will Gorman] built a LEGO 3D printer. It’s similar to a RepRap or a Makerbot, but instead of extruding plastic, it uses pre-extruded building blocks (aka ...

On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Etsy shop funky3Dfaces will turn you into a Lego character, but it won’t be cheap. 3D-printed heads ...