THE BEST Mindstorms

Do you have lots of gifts to wrap? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a machine that could measure and cut paper to exactly the right size? LEGO builder The Brick Wall made just the thing. Simply place a present on the box scanner, and the Mindstorms-controlled machine automatically unrolls the paper and cuts it to size.

Yoshihito Isogawa shows off another impressive build. He used LEGO Technic and Mindstorms parts, along with mirrors and a laser pointer to create a mechanism that can project laser patterns on the wall by rapidly modulating its reflector. Here’s another variant he also made.

After creating a LEGO guitar robot, TECHNICally Possible built this impressive LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot which play the keys on a small electronic keyboard. Here, it takes over the piano part for the song On Longing with Holly Throsby performing vocal duties.