BLOCKHEADS
Lego: The ultimate prototyping material. Seriously.
Adrian Marshall decided that he’d need a very convincing scale model to sell his latest idea. The British designer of factory robots was to meet the board of directors of a large food company, who wanted an industrial robot that could move ten arms independently and burn a picture of the Rugrats cartoon characters on pancakes randomly placed around a moving skillet. It had to be done in under 0.8 seconds in a hot industrial kitchen. Of course, he used the only prototyping material suitable for such a tough job: Lego.
“I always use Lego to present to customers,” says Marshall. “If it’s simple enough to be made from Lego, then the scaled-up version will be robust enough ...
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