LEGO's Classic 1979 Computer Brick Reborn As A Working Mac Mini With Touchscreen

If you're reading this right now, there's a very good chance that you were one of many millions of children to grow up with LEGO as one of your favorite toys. The Danish plastic connecting bricks are a timeless classic, and no doubt many of you, like me, spent countless hours pretending that our Lego minifigs were in fact working on very important things at their Slope 45 2x2 with Computer Screen blocks. Well, now you can take on the role of the LEGO person yourself, as long as you're willing to build your own M2x2.

That's what Paul Staal calls his new machine that uses a custom 3D printed chassis to reproduce the style and shape of the classic 3039 angle block. This block was used, with a printed pattern on the face, as a computer ...