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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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Feb 22, 2010

Meticulously crafted LEGO replica of a Remington .45, circa the Wild Wild West, 1858.  Created by Flickr user Arkov. Inspired? Build your own LEGO gun. Or learn your way around a real life Remington. ...

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Feb 14, 2010

Learn how to make a sword out of cardboard with this video.Materials:Cardboard, duct tape, masking tape, clear packing tape, cutting tools, scissors, box knife, dowel, broomstick, or plastic rod, pain ...

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Feb 10, 2010

Learn to make a model ship to put in a bottle with this video guide. 1. Take clean plastic bottle with mouth about 5 inches to fit the ship2. Pierce a hole on the top of the bottle using compass.3. In ...

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Feb 5, 2010

First, take a matchbox; cut a striker off the matchbox; attach a spring to a cut off match stick and shove that through a hole in the striker you just cut off. Then, you take the matchbox drawer, cut ...

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Feb 2, 2010

First, cut a plastic bottle down the middle the long way.Next, put a little candle in one of the halves.Then, using 1/8 inch copper tubing, make the engine by bending the middle of the tubing around a ...

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Jan 21, 2010

Jim Moyer builds tiny engines, with as much attention to detail and craftsmanship as some of our other favorite hobbyists (check out obsessive model airplanes and teeny tiny weapons). The engine demon ...

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Jan 4, 2010

As Gizmodo says, "4 feet 6 inches of brickgasm". Star Wars-gasm. LEGO-gasm. Perfect combination. "The Lego version of the classic Nebulon-B Class rebel frigate Redemption is 4 feet and 6 inches long. ...

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Dec 19, 2009

Motoman the Robot uses a 3D vision system to assemble LEGOs. "Motoman's high resolution color cameras and object recognition make picking out and connecting LEGO pieces easy...he's able to get the pie ...

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Dec 16, 2009

Howitzers are a type of artillery first employed in World War 1. In this video you will learn how to make a toy howitzer out of Legos. It's easy to assemble, and it fires rubber bands! Materials neede ...

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Dec 16, 2009

Aluminum cans are useful for various DIY projects, but they can be tricky to take apart. In this video you'll learn how to easily disassemble cans. Materials needed:A canA box opener and scissors 1. R ...