I LUG NY joined over 750 other makers this past weekend at New York Maker Faire. Exhibitors displayed a broad range of DIY projects including 3D printing, robotics, paper craft, food, and a giant car-crushing mechanical hand. Roughly 90,000 people attended the faire.The I LUG NY booth featured a variety of custom LEGO creations in the Great Ball Contraption, Mindstorms, and City themes. The table was a hit with all ages. The booth had a consitent crowd two-people deep.
Jon, who organizes the LUG booth every year, brought his Brickcade as well as a selection of Mindstorms MOCs.
Lawrie and I (mostly Lawrie) set up GBC modules, which were very popular with attendees.
“It included a tower crane in the process of lifting the next beam into place, with a skilled operator (Bob) in the cab of the crane. Bob had lifted the beam off the delivery truck which included a few more beams and a hand full of windows.Another construction worker was positioned on the scissor lift, ready to guide the beam into place.Meanwhile, Joe was operating the fork lift, getting the next load of bricks into place for the next course.A big hit with the kids was the fully outfitted port-a-potty, and of course the easter egg of Batman helping dig up the sidewalk with his trusty bat-hammer.”
Zach, who built the apartment buildings, had this to say about them:
“This eighteen floor apartment building consists of a lobby floor and mezzanine acting as the rigid base for the sixteen floors of apartments above. The apartments are broken up into four groups of four. Each group cantilevers in all four of the cardinal directions creating a centrifugal force about the mass of the building that balances itself. Each apartment acts as a module and each module only rests on the module below it with no connecting members between. This allows a limited rigidity within the total form of the irregular structure called ‘story drift’ which allows the building model to sway with gentle vibrations from the base without collapse.
This six floor apartment building is inspired by some of the works of the world renowned architects, MVRDV. It experiments with a regular form that mutates into irregular geometry across its façade with protruding volumes. Some of these volumes protrude individually while others protrude as a series to establish an assumed pattern of mutation from the central geometric mass.”
