Fully Articulated Lego Skeleton (GeekDad POTD)
Clay Morrow’s Lego skeleton demonstrates the lengths AFOLs take to recreate the things around them — or IN them — with their beloved bricks. Great stuff! [Via The Brothers Brick]
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Super Soaker 2011: Ready Your Batteries and Clips!
Hasbro sent me some samples of their new line of Super Soaker blasters, and I have to say they offer some really cool innovations over last year’s models. The first innovation is built into the Thunderstorm, the very modestly priced …
Continue ReadingD&D’s Fortune Cards Add Spice to the Melee
Wizards of the Coast sent me a few packs of D&D Fortune Cards. The way they work is that each player must accumulate his or her own stack — the cards are collectible, and come 8 to a pack. At …
Continue ReadingEvent Deck is an Easy Entry to Magic: The Gathering
One of the challenges with Magic: The Gathering is that building a deck can intimidate a newbie more than, perhaps, their level of interest can handle. And understandably so: not everyone has the same levels of time, energy and interest. …
Continue ReadingLego Ball Contraption
Peer Kreuger (whose Motorized Arctic Vehicle we linked to last month) sqiddster was actually the one who built this clever ball contraption. Sorry for the confusion, sqiddster! [Via the Brothers Brick.]
Continue ReadingBadass Lego Guns Details Badass Lego Guns
I just got a sample copy of Badass Lego Guns from No Starch Press. The book is very simple: essentially it is the complete guide to building five Lego guns that actually shoot Lego bricks like bullets. While the video …
Continue Reading“BUILD!” — An Awesomely Cool Lego Stop-Motion Short
“BUILD!” is a brickfilm created by David Pagano and Matt Witham. If you like what you see, Pagano has made a bunch of other brickfilms, check out his YouTube uploads.
Continue ReadingMake: Live Brings Tinkerers to your Laptop
So I’m a contributing writer with Make Magazine and Make: Online, and I wanted to share something that the blog is doing that is really neat — Make: Live. Every other Wednesday, my colleagues Becky and Matt are hosting a …
Continue ReadingDownload a Free Issue of Kobold Quarterly
Ninja-deadly D&D magazine Kobold Quarterly pretty much rocks. It’s like ole Dragon reincarnated, with D&D and Pathfinder articles written by industry giants. Not sure if you’d like it? Download issue #11 for free. Just follow the link above and read …
Continue ReadingHackerspaces Mini-doc on PBS
A five-minute synopsis of the hackerspace scene, courtesy of the legendary Mitch Altman. Hackerspaces are going mainstream, baby! My local space is the Hack Factory in Minneapolis and our open nights are every Wednesday at 7pm. Swing on by!
Continue ReadingLego Cannonballer!
Don’t even try to tell me this whip isn’t 100% unadulterated sweetness. Ed Diment, who had been in geek news lately for recently completing his epic 20-foot, minifig-scale U.S.S. Hood, built this one a bit smaller. Be sure to check …
Continue ReadingExclusive Magic the Gathering Spoiler Card:Mirrodin Besieged
Once again GeekDad has been given a new Magic: The Gathering card to spoil, this time for their latest set, Mirrodin Besieged. Previous releases have been dramatic game-changers, cards that spell doom for your opponent if you draw it — …
Continue ReadingMotorized Lego Arctic Vehicle
If you’ve never checked out Peer Kreuger’s Lego models, you really have to. His Stilzkin Indrik arctic vehicle (in video) wins points for style, realism, and execution. He’s done a bunch of really fantastic projects, but I definitely dig his …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #7
And so, we conclude our annual series of gift guides. The writers who contributed to the guide labored long and hard to collect the most awesome suggestions, and we hope you find them useful. Have a great holiday season! Space …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #6
We’re well into December, and that means we’re down to about 2 weeks left until the big day. But don’t worry, plenty of time left, and you can always count on the intrepid writers of the GeekDad blog to give …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #5
Just as the swirling of autumnal leaves turns to the blustering gusts of snow, similarly, the equanimity of November starts to take on the tinge of panic as December arrives. That’s right, it’s time to take this holiday shopping seriously. …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #4
Welcome to the Black Friday edition of the GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide! We have lots of fun suggestions for you and/or the geeky dad in your life. As before, be sure to check out previous guides for more suggestions. Star …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #3
Another Friday, another heap of super cool present ideas selected by the writers of GeekDad. Want additional suggestions? There’s more here. Lost: The Complete Collection Magnificently opulent boxed set devoted to a byzantine television series that has obsessed countless fans. …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #2
If it’s Friday during the holiday season, then chances are there will be a GeekDad Gift Guide coming out. This one is #2, and there will be 5 more before we’re done. Stay tuned for those, but if you absolutely …
Continue Reading2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #1
Pumpkins have been mulched, scary tombstones have been put back into storage; Halloween is over. That can mean only one thing! GeekDad’s annual Gift Guide extravaganza is back. Once again we’ll be featuring seven weekly guides chock full of geeky …
Continue ReadingNew Lego Star Wars Mini-Movie!
This hilarious video is a retelling of Episodes IV-VI in Lego, but with a pesky Gungan janitor added to the mix, pursued by a vengeful Boba Fett. As for the ending… oh, let’s just say it’s delightfully non-canonical.
Continue ReadingUpsized Lego bricks
I love these recursive Lego creations made by Lego fans Matija Grguric (top) and Thom Beckett (bottom). The sign of a true fan is to obsess over minutiae, and recreating bricks this way is an awesome example of the phenomenon. …
Continue ReadingIron GM: Are You The Best Game Master?
The Iron GM competition will be held this November 4-7 at NeonCon in Las Vegas. It sounds really cool! If you’re attending, be sure to check it out. It costs $6 to participate as a player and $12 to compete …
Continue ReadingLego Helps ESA Scientists to Visualize Spacecraft
ESA scientist Detlef Koschny built Lego models of the Rosetta space probe and lander to help visualize and demonstrate their functionality in meetings. I’m sure there are more sophisticated and professional ways to do this, but you have to imagine …
Continue ReadingProject Intrepid: A 23-Foot Lego Aircraft Carrier
While the USS Intrepid currently serves as a museum, she was once an active-duty warship with a prominent role in several battles in the Pacific campaign of WWII. It is this time period that Ed “Lego Monster” Diment is depicting …
Continue ReadingBionicle Is Dead; Long Live Hero Factory!
Bionicle was Lego’s wildly successful and long running product line that mirrored easily-built, high-playability robot models with a convoluted storyline that included comics, novels, and even short movies. It told of a colossal battle between two essentially identical armies of …
Continue ReadingNew Red Box Introduces N00bs to The Magical World of D&D
The new Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is the most unique and engaging way to introduce someone to a roleplaying game I think I’ve ever seen. OK. Let’s back up for a second. The new Starter Set was designed to …
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Exclusive Magic: The Gathering “Scars of Mirrodin” Spoiler
Scars of Mirrodin is Magic: The Gathering’s new block and boy, does it look cool: a metal world with five suns, one for each color of mana. Mirrodin is home to races familiar to the Multiverse like humans and elves, …
Continue ReadingTop 10 Evil Geeks in the Movies (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Around here, we’re always talking up the positives of geeks. It’s a natural thing because that’s who we are. And while we always want to root for the geek heroes in books and movies, we have to acknowledge there are …
Continue Reading14 Geeky Cocktails For Your Labor Day Weekend (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Have you ever noticed certain cocktails are perfect for specific geeky pursuits? Whether it’s a special kind of ‘tini for tinkering or a hearty grog for saluting an awesome rocket launch, we (non-teetotaler) adults appreciate a cocktail that complements our …
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