LEGO is exploring 3D printing as a potential way for fans to produce their own custom bricks, as a way to stave off all-virtual world building games like Minecraft. The plastic brick company – which ...

Washington - If you had a lucky childhood, tucked away in a corner of your cupboard was a gigantic collection of loose Legos. It was the culmination of dozens of kits and construction sets, collected ...

On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...

Lego customers may one day be able to make their own bricks and mini-figures using 3-D printers. The global toy giant is looking hard at ways to adapt to a digital economy in which toymakers are ...

Matthew Yglesias is on vacation. Lego is thriving over its competitors, and 3D printing may have just crossed a critical threshold. Here’s how they’re related. When I was in middle school, a friend ...

Lego is toying with 3D printing for fans who want to create specialist playsets with one-off characters. It could mean families designing Lego mini-me characters of mum, dad and the kids or using 3D ...

Instructables member, Gosse Adema has used Lego building blocks combined with Nema 17 stepper motors to create his very own and very awesome Lego 3D printer. The 3D printer was crewed using a number ...

With 2400 LEGO bricks and a lot of patience, [Will Gorman] built a LEGO 3D printer. It’s similar to a RepRap or a Makerbot, but instead of extruding plastic, it uses pre-extruded building blocks (aka ...