Blog of Josh Hall

You knew someone was going to do it eventually.  Back in 2009, British Television host, James May, and a group of volunteers set out to create the house in the UK.  Sure, they made sure it had a solid wood frame structure, but everything else is all LEGO.  There was something about James actually living […]

A practical use for LEGO in the data representation arena. Colors are used to show countries and adding the to the depth of the cartogram to show emigration and immigration to countries. See, I can do useful things with LEGO too! http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2011/02/cartogram-done-in-real-3d.html  

10.  I learned a lot about php, mysql, SEO, html, java, web design, social networking, webtraffic, and a lot of other geeky stuff that’s come in handy in my job and in my personal life.  Sometimes, just doing things is the best learning tool. 9.  When my dad passed, a college friend of his emailed […]

This is actually my second foray into the LEGO mosaic realm. The first one was a freehand design of the LEGO logo. A mosaic of Albert Einstein would require a little assistance though. There are 2 methods for creating mosaics in LEGO bricks, this one is a studs out technique, where the studs face the […]

LEGO is a very popular medium for stop motion videos.  LEGO even makes their own cameras and software for content editing.  Here’s one of the more popular music videos with LEGO:

The Antikythera mechanism dates back to 150 BC by the Greeks.  It was a device that was built to calculate celestial positions with high accuracy.  Here it is recreated with LEGO gears. The Antikythera mechanism