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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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Aug 14, 2012

You might have seen our post on this last week: Image Credit wonderhowto.comIt's a working reproduction of the Mars Curiosity Rover made with LEGOs, but it's a bit complicated for anyone without a dec ...

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Aug 9, 2012

Making little robots with a LEGO Mindstorms NXT set is already cool, but putting one underwater? Now that's just crazy. That didn't stop this engineer, who built a LEGO submarine that can not only man ...

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Aug 6, 2012

Using a LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit, a pair of awesome engineers put together this fully functional replica of the Curiosity Mars rover. Not only is it built completely out of LEGOs, it's motorized, progr ...

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Aug 2, 2012

If you played with K'Nex as a kid (or still do), you know that it can take a lot of those tiny little pieces to build something. Just imagine how many it must have taken to make this full-sized, fully ...

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Nov 26, 2011

Fibreglass Laser TaggerHow to fit out a laser tagger with MilesTag electronics, the videos show how to fit the MilesTag System into a home made fibreglass tagger shell. More videos of the making of ...

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Oct 13, 2011

The video below demonstrates how you can convert you 2D Photos into 3D Models using 3Defy. You will need to follow these steps: 1. Select a photograph to work with.  You can either upload one of your ...

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Jul 22, 2011

Materials4 - 5" long bolts4 matching nuts8 heavy duty flat washers4 to 6 - 2" taper head screwsLonger bolts to mount the router base to a thicker surface. These must match the thread of the original b ...

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Jul 10, 2011

I made the bottom holes way too big on purpose for adjustment. It just meant using a large washer, or plate. Draw bolts for counter tops worked very well for me. As for the plates, I run them into the ...

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Jun 29, 2011

Looking for something fun to do with all those office supplies you've been stealing from work? Or maybe you just want to goof around in your cubicle? It's possible that you are an honest, dedicated, h ...