 Thank you. Thank you and thank you Simon. So this is Legopunk. So any things to do with Lego? So what do we really mean by Legopunk? What is it that's important? What's interesting? So first rule of Legopunk is that anything that Lego would not be happy with and by Lego I mean Lego the company not Lego the bricks. The bricks are not sentient. They can't all have feelings So if the Lego company does not approve of something, I want to hear about it If Lego company would never do it, I want someone else to do it That's a good thing in my book. The second rule of Legopunk is Well, that's it really anything that annoys Lego is good by me So or anything that Lego wouldn't do or can't do or shouldn't do so Legopunk isn't this It might have a punk aesthetic But it's still a big lump of bricks It's not this it might be modern art to somebody to me. It's a pile of bricks To me something is impressive would be something well getting closer David Lyle used to have a page in the Lego Club magazine back in the early 80s and Every issue he would build something big and impressive like this big and impressive Lego is good If you've done it yourself from your own money and your own funds David Lyle was paid by the Lego company to build these models to put into toy shops in order to sell more Lego So as such a little bit of a corporate shill lovely guy made lovely models, but not what Lego punk is about If Lego punk does big stuff, then this is the sort of big stuff we want to do Rule one that is the Millennium Falcon that is sitting in docky docking bay 94 And if you want to see to scale, that's the rest of the Tatooine set. They've also built Also to the same scale Yeah, I'm not quite sure how much they spent on that but that's pretty impressive by anyone's book I would say These if you if we look at the top right you can see the Millennium Falcon and some storm troopers Those are mini-figs. They are this size mini-figs if I hold them into the light That that scene that docking bay 94 scene is all built to scale to these mini-figs That gives you a further idea on how enormous that set is And this is something people have built with their own cash It's not the biggest obviously that is That is a life-size of genuine Lego X-Wing They actually modeled each of the Lego bricks in a sort of a larger size and then they built the traditional Lego X-Wing at real-scale I Have no clue how you know it's probably online you probably find out how much it costs But it's a serious piece of engineering if you just think of the weight and the transportation of that device That's an impressive piece of work. What else? Well, the X-Wing didn't fly, but that car does drive There were videos online of this thing trolling down the road That's impressive That's also pretty impressive the Iowa Sauron for those that like the Lord of the Rings films you'll recognize that That's not a still or a small model. This is it to scale That's the guy that built it He is a geek as you can probably tell because he's he's got a funny glasses a funny beard and a black t-shirt Expressing individuality like all geeks do because of course, I don't have funny beard or funny glasses Oh wait, I didn't realize where I was going with that joke So that is life-size, but not only is it life-size look at the detail on the top right It's not just a big model for the sake of being big it is detailed every single nuance is there Sizes and everything this is male built with 31 bricks. I think roughly and Still looks pretty good. You can still express a moose head on a wall in 31 bricks. That's elegance. That's really quite impressive Of course, you can go lower if you like Anyone recognize what that is? Not bad Of course, there's always that one as well if you have a few more bricks Depends how many bricks you got at home. So it doesn't matter how many bricks you have lots and lots or not very few at all You can always do something that's a little bit different and interesting Or you could build nuclear Cern accelerator things. This is the Hadron collider from CERN Built out of Lego unlike the car we saw earlier. This one. It's not functional Unless you're Sheldon Cooper, then it probably was Also things that Lego would not do they would not do guns They although they put little toy guns and they put sort of spaceman ray guns things in their sets They would never build assault rifles like this for people that play computer games. You might recognize this from Halo As I said, it doesn't fire. No one will be silly enough to do a gun that really fires. Although, of course, someone has been This actually does work The handle turns it hits the hammer and it flicks bricks out It's very unlikely that VLC is going to work on that display. So let me see if I can just if this doesn't work first time I'll just give up because it's computers and Okay, I'll just give up There is a video clip that you can see where that hammer flicks out bricks It flicks them out at about 10 bricks a second if you can turn the handle fast enough But being plastic bricks they only hurt if you walk on them in bare feet So you don't have to worry oh tip by the way if you're a parent with kids that love Lego and the kid won't clear the leg of Away just says that's fine We'll turn out the lights and we'll walk barefoot into your room if you want to do something away from the bricks Break the mold. This is built by vacuum forming So all you need is a block of wood shape it to the mini fig cover it in wax and put it on a vacuum form machine If you're at school or at university, you'll probably have access to one of these if you don't you can do smaller versions You can obviously buy the silicone Trades like this they're available in various stores and fill them with chocolate or ice There's also a multiple plastic you can get in DIY and sort of maker stores and Matt plan I think sell them where you've got little plastic beads which when you place them into hot water or in a bag in hot water They become malleable Which means you can imprint a mini fig into the malleable Plastic so that when it cools you then have your own chocolate tray So you can either make your own tray like this or large of bricks like this or even fill it with jelly or Ice water to make ice cubes Rule number seven Design your own if you don't want to pay Lego lots of money for a Harry Potter chess set or a Lego Star Wars chess set Design your own pieces It's quite an interesting exercise of creative design to come up with a way of expressing king queen bishops knights and Rooks and pawns With the pieces that you actually have at home Of course, if you do have enough money you could build this chess set You can tell that guy is actually sort of my size. He's not a midget He is actually sitting in a real life chessboard each of those pieces has a Lego Mindstorms unit inside it They all connect to the PC sat in front of him which you then use to play a game of chess The patterns on the tiles indicate which tile it is so the piece knows that it's moved to the right location It's impressive, but I've never seen it work. I Have my doubts and you can see why I have my doubts if you look at this size of the pieces There's not enough room between them for the night to get between them That's that's what I'm not sure on but your mileage might vary. Oh Yeah, I had this really great idea for promoting the Lego punk site I thought I'll do a QR code in Lego. No one will have ever thought of doing a QR code in Lego Two seconds in Google this comes up It might work. I don't know where it goes by the way, so no one click it It might be a dodgy site not that I have dodgy sites on my machine Obviously I friended this for me, but it might actually work What about other signs? You could use your calendar You could even program Lego Mindstorms to reprogram the Lego bricks on the calendar field for you You could also if you do Trello if you're a developer doing Trello stuff You could use Lego as your Trello board at least it gets stops giving money to 3m for their post-it notes There I fixed it. I have no idea if that would actually stop a cave from falling in But it does look like a thumbs up. So maybe it does Mathematics if there are any mathematicians in you could probably tell me what the name of that function is I Don't remember. I didn't research it. But what's interesting about this is that's a continuous function Lego blocks are discrete Which means it actually takes a lot more effort than you think to make what appears to be a nice smooth shape from a lot of Jagged Lego bricks. We'll see more on curves later Well 11 pictures are possible This is one of those cases where those at the back have a better advantage than those at the front Because you're the only ones who probably realize that the picture on the left is the same as the picture on the right If you're in the front take your glasses off squint or you know look through your fingers That is actually a portrait of Torrey Amos in Lego Now of course as anyone that does graphics know the more pixels you have the more bricks you have the better resolution you have How many more pixels do you need about 30,000? Yep, again the guy laying next to it is my size That's a lot of bricks. Not only is that a lot of bricks and boy does he have a lot of time on his hands If you look on the top right of the picture You can see two life-size statues that he's building at the same time as this one He has enough bricks for both of them at once Don't you ever dare tell your kids they have too much Lego? Of course, if you don't have enough Lego, you could always make a smaller version of Elvis. That's pretty much a 2d sculptor It's virtually a portrait There's no real meaning in the depth of it But if you do have enough bricks you can build a 3d sculpture version of Elvis uh-huh And if you've got even more bricks that that Elvis by the way is about yay-hi. It's not that big But if you have again more bricks Make it life-size ish. These two run a competition to have their Their bodies being cast in Lego and all of these bricks you see here You know standard Lego bricks one thing you you may not be aware is that these are actually hollow Most of these big 3d sculptures are hollow Although Lego can support its own weight. It's best not to it can be a little bit temperamental There's normally a metal pole through the middle and other spokes to hold everything in place And if you've been to Lego land you'll probably notice that all the bricks are glued together and coated in varnish Just to stop little bits from cracking off here and there, but otherwise nice build Even if you're not a builder and you're a photographer There is an entire movement in the Lego space which is to re-imagine photographs album covers historic events in Lego the Tiananmen Square Tanks there is a Lego version of that. There's a Lego version of this There's a Lego version of the guy sat on the skyscraper beam I mean with Lego I can get I can see how that happens But in the real version the guy at the end he's having this lunch break if he needs a pee I'd have no idea how they're gonna move. I said we get back to curves The curve is probably one of the more difficult things to making Lego because we used to Lego bricks being blocks and we used to curves being well not blocks So once you can build curves once you can build a ball You're halfway there to be a professional Lego builder If you look carefully at the dome and the front three four rows will probably able to see this The studs are pointing this way that way and that way throughout the course of the dome That actually gives it a much smoother feel and that's quite a complex thing to achieve This is a smaller version of the same thing Again that ball fits in the palm of your hand, but it's still a hundred and thirty Lego bricks And they have to be exactly the right Lego bricks as well because if they're not you can't make it At the bottom there are pieces which hang underneath everything else If they're not the right shape, there's nothing for them to hang on to and therefore they'll fall Yeah, as soon as someone makes a ball you can be guaranteed someone like a death star Well, they haven't finished this one. So, you know, never mind probably the second death star Insert your star wall strokes here. So you can bend the walls And I say that purposely if you look carefully at these spokes You'll actually see that each of those spikes is as folks is a curve It's not staggered bricks. The bricks have been bent very very slightly and with enough bricks a very small bend Turns into the complete bend that you can see there If you don't have so many bricks the bends look like this They still look like bent Lego bricks, but you can see the gaps especially on the bottom of the yellow But it's still viable and it's still worth looking at Of course if boring curve shapes are not your thing any magicians in the audience We know I know we've got a couple out there because it so yeah, why not just build something It's impossible like a proper magician would All this one two studs from the front five studs from the front and only one cross beam very easy to make this or If you do have some time on your hands, you can make Escher's waterfall Pay careful attention to where the waterfall ends and the path of the water going back up to the top If you go online, you can find how this secret works Well 22 real world now when I was growing up I couldn't afford to take a USB stick smash it to bits just to put it into a Lego brick No 20 could a pop now again. They're given away free So all you need to do take a Lego brick hollow it out with a small drill Stick a USB stick in there and you've got a thing if you don't want to use USB use LEDs Make your own little torches LED battery toughens. Hope me Or if you want to do some bigger entire VR unit, and it'll probably still sell better than the Veev five sorry Of course if you've got some aluminium or any Americans in the audience aluminum You can make yourself a little key ring such as this if you don't have any of that So if you're not a university or whatever you can use that malleable plastic I mentioned earlier and instead of using a jelly mold jelly in a mold you could use solder in that mold It's not very solid. It is very soft, but it means you can do it at home without an aluminium smelt 34 jewelry Jewelry is something that is very easy to make fairly cheap to make in a lot of cases and fairly unique Wearing a tie clip here. I paid a whole 99 pence for a diamond studied tie clip to be shipped in from China It must be genuine at 99p. It must be a real diamond So I just ripped the diamond out stuck a Lego brick over the top And I've got a tie clip that most people don't have most people probably wouldn't want But for the purpose of the talk it serves its purpose. It's jewelry. It's easy to make You can make a bracelet again just take six Lego bricks drill a hole through the middle and attach a piece of string or elastic around them There you go. If you have a little bit more time and patience and you've got a very patient of a half You can have a wedding ring from Lego Yeah, if your partner lets you have a wedding ring made of Lego, they're a keeper The other forms are wearable So we've got sunglasses that this is a set that I made myself They are real and they are sculpted to my face But since we're recording this and I don't want to look any more stupid than I do I won't put them on take my word for it You'll probably notice that the yellow is what you'd get in the old Lego spaceships from around the mid-80s spaceship spaceship spaceship as is the blue The guy on the left that picture was taken about three years ago So now they probably have a beard going around to their stomach and they probably work in short itch So if you want to make stuff You can make stuff to wear With the Lego Mindstorms kits you can build a lot more of electronic and computer Oriented things one of which is someone has built a printer technically It's just a plotter, but essentially a pen goes along a moving sheet of paper The pen is controlled by Lego motors the paper is controlled by Lego motors and it draws out messages that you can create on your PC Sticking with the Lego Mindstorms kit. This is the NXT Mindstorms kit. This is a segue It's quite cool because it's a segue It's self-balancing and it's made from Lego But what was more impressive is the guy that built and demonstrated this only ever tested it on a flat surface Mathematically speaking it should work on an incline, but he'd never tested it and For the developers in the audience who write something they think yeah It should work, but I haven't tested it and then you test it and it works Imagine what this guy felt like when he tested it for the first time in a room of 200 geeks and it worked first time It's a night. It's a very simple, but very impressive piece of coding and building 27 it's This is just a projector. This is an old super 8 film Now this is shows the difference between an MVP in Lego and a sort of a more finished product Asensibly a projector is just a light bulb Something to drag a piece of film through the gate and a lens to focus the image on the screen Well, if you pull the the film too tightly through the gate It will snap you don't want that if you don't pull it tight enough It will go loose and it won't thread through the frame will stop So this has a lot of extra pieces of pulleys and mechanisms to ensure that the film goes through a good Constant frame rate and doesn't stretch doesn't break. It doesn't become too slack walk 28 You can do lo-fi. This is the original Lego mine storms and he's just basically a controlled motor But the reality is there is no more or less technology in what is being used here Then there was in the original gramophones the gramophone had a motor normally a wind-up motor That would spin a record around and round and there would be a needle that would sit in the groove And it will be amplified by the cone. This is all that's doing the Lego is there just to provide a motor and a constant speed Robots I was I've got so many robots that I've built I've got so many robots that I've seen I've got so many robots that I've posted pictures of There was no way I could pick any particular one or or small number to show So I decided on this one, which is as you can probably guess by now a Rubik's Cube solving robot The reason that I like this particular one is that it's only really the left and the right hand arms that do anything The camera takes a photograph of all the side feeds it to the first Lego mine storms unit on the top there on the on the right hand side Once it understands the cubits tries to solve it The blue thing just moves it backwards and forwards and around and then the the hands on the left and the right Rotate the slices into position This one if anyone hasn't seen it before and guess what it does from the picture you win a cookie It's the anti-ketheram mechanism Which was a 2,000 year old calendar computing device when it was discovered in the sea it looked like this Archaeologists computer geeks and random hangers on worked out that this was the mechanism And even though it's 2,000 years old It would compute the position of the Sun in the sky at any given time a day It would compute the position the moon phase of the moon eclipse and various positions of things in the sky For 2,000 years old and looking like that. That's not a bad feat And that's what it looks like in Lego Rule 31 Arduino you can stick an Arduino into anything This is an instrument I did have an audio clip which we won't be able to play but With a piece of resistance wire stretched across a meter or so of Lego You have a crocodile clip that creates a potential divider circuit in the resistance wire This is fed into the Arduino it converts this potential difference into a note and it plays a beepy noise But of course, that's an Arduino making the noise. This doesn't make a noise at all As you can tell it's a guitar But the tension on the strings if you were to really put strings on there the amount of tension in guitar strings It's such that it would cause that Lego neck to break Even if you were to put a piece of metal all the way through that neck The bricks would break around the metal and you still wouldn't be able to play the guitar If you use nylon strings, however, you could make a violin. This is playable It even has tuning pegs if you look to the bottom right, which do tune the violin It's not very tuneful, but it does work the main problem with Instruments like this is because they are so small and Lego is quite fragile It means that you can't play real instruments that require a vibration Because the vibration the string has too much tension it would break So what you need to do is instead of having a small unit you need to have a large unit This is a life-size harpsichord. This really does play It doesn't sound very good We do have let me see if I can play this though. This might actually because it's only audio It's also good considering everything except for those strings a Lego Where were we up to? We're up to rule 33. Okay, so rule 34 is next Actually, can I switch to the other screen? It's actually something I do want to try on the other screen is I seem to have lost a thing. I Want to get that onto the main screen is that coming up? Can we switch the thingy? Okay, let me see if I've got whoops, let me see if I switch into this Hello computer if not, we'll give it because this I've shown everything hardware-based things that you can build with Lego when you're Either building molds so let me see if I can find settings. I lost it Mentioned there are a variety of licensing structures That are available And we'll talk about some of those in a bit more detail This is Lego GTA. Okay, stop. It's hammer time now Now we will change the rules 3d perspective and the defender is now the target even Defender is now the target and not a web you are the defender To do moves that you keep yourself between the attacker and the target in that world Okay, the defender is now the target again in the machine's memory. You are the defender Move so that you keep yourself between the attacker and the target Okay one more slide on rule 34 although before we do actually I should probably point out this other thing Everyone's got these massive Millennium Fulcrums. I've got this little tiny one Lego don't like you selling instructions So there's a guy in the States that gives instructions for free But then sells the bricks because Lego can't stop in selling the bricks, but they can stop in selling instructions So if you need to weigh around things there's always around so finally we're up to rule 34 Does everyone know what rule 34 is? No, I don't know at all. I've never heard of that. No, I'm a good little boy or girl Yes, yeah, well, sorry as I've just been told we're out of time So I can't show you what rule 34 in Lego looks like but I can say thank you to the little mini figs that didn't make this possible That's the organizers and everyone here working at the backstage behind the big lights I've probably got a couple of minutes for questions if there are any but otherwise. Thank you all Would anyone like to ask a quick question? Do we have any questions in the audience? Just quickly just quickly just quickly or shall we turn around? Yeah, I have one over here. Here we are On we have a request to put the glasses on put the glasses on Now I have to do that very gently because these glasses are real They do have real lenses in and they don't have real lenses in so I'm very very close to walking off the edge of the stage And there's actually an amusing little thing. I when I first made them I took them on to a London 2600 meeting We're just meeting up drinks talking rubbish as you normally do and we ended up going through Leicester Square And I was wearing these things because at the time I didn't think I had a reputation to protect So I'm there looking like an absolute doofus and a couple of tourists come over and saying oh they're Lego What's this? So being the people we were instead of just saying oh, we're just some friends out We're you know was popping out for some beers and burgers said. Oh, no, this is mr. Lego. He's from Denmark He's doing a tour of London at the moment So over the next hour I'd got my picture taken by about a thousand tourists in Leicester Square all thinking they'd met mr. Lego Luckily, this was in days before Facebook. Otherwise, they'd probably pictures on there and I'd be tagged up or something but it's surprising how simple a little thing just sets you apart and Encourages weird strangers in Leicester Square to come up to you Thank you. Thank you very much Stephen. I think having had the glasses. We can't top that. Thank you very much indeed Stephen Goodwin