\nWith Lego on the brain, and Google on the fingertips, I’ve learned a few things. Like: the planet’s children spent 5 billion child-hours last year playing with Legos. And that when Lego, Inc. (or, perhaps GmbH . . . I don’t know) discards a set of moulds, they throw them into the concrete foundations of a new Lego, Inc. building. And that there are 102,981,500 different ways to combine six eight-stud Lego-blocks. And that a block’s height is 6\/5 the length of a SLU (Standard Lego Unit). And that there’s a word “SLU”. And that some adults design new lego kits, buy the parts, print up instructions, then repackage and sell them to each other (no one-off artsy Lego deathcamps for these guys!). And that my kludgey looking design for a clock’s gear-train (60:1 stepdown, then a 12:1 stepdown) is in fact the best theoretically possible given the constraints of the gears available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Travis Corcoran reports: With Lego on the brain, and Google on the fingertips, I’ve learned a few things. Like: the planet’s children spent 5 billion child-hours last year playing with Legos. And that when Lego, Inc. (or, perhaps GmbH . . . … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}