Posts for the month of March 2017

LDraw Parts Library 2016-01 - Packaged for Linux

​LDraw.org maintains a ​library of Lego part models upon which a number of related tools such as ​LeoCAD, ​LDView and ​LPub rely.

I packaged the 2016-01 parts library for Fedora 25 to install to /usr/share/ldraw; it should be straight-forward to adapt to other distributions.

The *.noarch.rpm files are the ones to install, and the .src.rpm contains everything so it can be rebuilt for another rpm-based distribution.

ldraw_parts-201601-ec1.fc25.src.rpm​

ldraw_parts-201601-ec1.fc25.noarch.rpm​
ldraw_parts-creativecommons-201601-ec1.fc25.noarch.rpm​
ldraw_parts-models-201601-ec1.fc25.noarch.rpm​

Réinventer Lego

Back in 2010, I added Lego to a Rubik's Cube to create something awesome. Last year, French publisher ​Hoëbeke published a French-language book ​Réinventer Lego.

cover photo

When they reached out to me, I was happy to have my Lego Rubik's cube included in their book, though a bit surprised given the relative simplicity of the creation. When my copy arrived, I was pleasantly surprised to have gotten four pages in the book.

page 1 page 2

They have included a wide variety of projects which incorporated Lego parts as a material; from clothing accessories to furniture to home remodeling. People really do a lot of weird things with Lego.

​"Réinventer Lego" is available via Amazon