Ice Cream Mixed with LEGOS

Last night we took a trip out to the ice-cream store to use up some gift cards I got from the end of the semester. Our local Cold Stone Creamery was the destination of the evening. What a pleasant surprise for my kids when we walked in and saw this LEGO city on display. It was soooooo cool. The owner's son had set up this city since they weren't using the second stone. So I pulled out the camera and here's the results.

Taken with Pano. Was hard to avoid the reflective lighting.

Where's the fire?

Always love the details in these builds.

Who Let the Dog's Out?

I'm finishing up the semester with the homeschoolers next week. Spring break has struck, but kids are still happily building and finding new and innovative ways to "modify" the builds. This past week was probably the toughest build of the class. It consisted of building a dog using the motor to move three different body parts. That included the tail, the eyes and the jaw. Having one motor operate all these things means there's a combination of gears, worm screws and pulleys involved in making this happen. After that's all said and done, how could you possibly make the dog MOVE as well? The directions don't tell them, but a couple of kids figured it out anyways. Love the creativity and inventiveness of these young minds.

The first video is what the dog normally does, but it doesn't walk. 

The second video is a walking (well rolling) dog.