Olin administrator builds Lego Needham Town HallIt turns out that two Town Halls were built in Needham this year. One was the brick-and-mortar building sitting in Needham Center, which underwent renovations and additions and will be officially unveiled at a Needham300 event on Nov. 5.
The other Town Hall is made of Legos.
Nick Tatar, Assistant Dean of Student Life at Olin College, built this second Town Hall at Olin over the course of three months, starting in January. Working with Olin professor Brad Minch and seven children and Olin students, Tatar built the Town Hall out of fifteen thousand Lego pieces, sometimes working 10 to 15 hours a week on the project. On Nov. 5, Tatar will break the Town Hall into chunks and transport it to the other Town Hall. At noon, he will reassemble it, then step back and let people admire his handiwork. Tatar said that he decided to build this Lego Town Hall for kids to enjoy during the Nov. 5 Needham 300 gala.
“I wanted to see if we could do something fun for the kids, to make the day more playful,” he said.
During its first week of existence, Legoland Florida has gathered mostly positive, and in many cases rapturous, reviews from guests and industry experts.
An undercurrent of grumbling has emerged that can be summed up in two words: too expensive. Terra Gouge of Lake Wales said she and her husband, Eric Gouge, probably won't be taking their children, ages 3 and 4, to Legoland because of the cost. "It's not like we don't want to try it; it's just the money," said Gouge, 40.
We do know that those with a vivid imagination are able to construct some interesting stuff using nothing but Lego bricks, and there has been some pretty special creations conjured in the past.
Well, humans being humans with our creativity, there are always better things to come in the future – case in point, Lego bricks being used to create a ‘Segway” of sorts.
This is not something that will be able to ferry humans around, but it is still enough to keep children and curious adults alike mesmerized. Also known as the dIMU (Dexter Industries Inertial Motion Unit) Inertial Motion Sensor, the creation of this device will obviously require the presence of an accelerometer as well as a gyroscope, working in tandem with the Lego Mindstorms NXT.
Fully capable of measuring acceleration, tilt, and rotation on all 3 axes, this allows you to construct Lego robots that are able to balance itself on a couple of wheels, measure the rate of acceleration and have an idea on which way is up so that it will not topple over.
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