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Construction Toys

Join our Construction Toys World now to get tutorials on making cool things out of your building blocks and construction sets at home, from K'Nex to LEGOs to Tinkertoys and beyond. If you've built something mechanically awesome, make sure to share the design with the rest of the builders out there!

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Apr 2, 2010

This is a Hobbies and Toys video tutorial where you will learn how to use a Micrometer. Micrometers are precision measuring tools and they can be calibrated in inches or in metric system. There are al ...

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Mar 24, 2010

An incredible LEGO feat: the Rebel vs. Empire Star Wars LEGO Foosball table. Built entirely, in and out, of LEGOs. LEGOs + Star Wars + Foosball = total Nerd-vana. Previously, Play Foosball With L ...

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Mar 22, 2010

If you've got a tiny farm, you're going to need some tiny fences. Don't shell out your whole allowance for a fancy store bought fence set. Instead make your own fences out of popsicle sticks. This vid ...

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Mar 21, 2010

This is a simple and easy tutorial, and anybody can build a hot air balloon out of a garbage bag by following the instructions in it. All one needs is a garbage bag, some stiff industrial wire and fir ...

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Mar 10, 2010

Put the newspaper down on a work surface. Pick up the 5 MW green laser pen and unscrew the battery cap. Remove the batteries and put them and the battery cap aside. Hold the back of the laser pen with ...

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Mar 10, 2010

LEGO technic builder Sariel presents a mighty impressive weekend project: a motorized LEGO hand that emulates actual human movement. This feat of plastic engineering runs on a combination of electric ...

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Mar 5, 2010

Have you ever had a combination of extreme boredom and an unrelenting curiosity? If so one thing you may have attempted to do is to take apart or "de-engineer" a common office laser pointer. In this o ...

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Mar 4, 2010

Another amazing LEGO feat (+more Avatar mania). Check out this elaborately constructed helicopter, with blades powered by an actual LEGO motor! Scroll down to see it in action. Previously, Man Spend ...

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Feb 27, 2010

Paul Yperman's Droid Control Ship has been two years in the making, and required a whopping 30,000 LEGO bricks to build. Says Brothers Brick,  "Paul's build differs in the surface textures of the mode ...

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Feb 26, 2010

LEGO maniac Dave DeGobbi has created a small, traveling "eco-punk" city which exists on a mobile platform. DeGobbi says: "Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclys ...