The PriNXT: A working printer made from Lego What were you up to
when you were 14 years old? This industrious young hacker
managed to build a working printer out of his Lego set. The next
time you have a quick black and white image to print you might
try sending it over to print out on your Lego bricks. A new
project, called the PriNXT, is a simple but effective printer
built out of everyone's favorite toy. The PriNXT by Leon
Overweel is made from Lego's Mindstorm system that lets you add
motors and some programming magic to your Lego projects. Even
though he's just 14 years old, Leon managed to build the PriNXT
along with a number of other Lego projects--including a Skype-
controlled Lego Car. The printer essentially works like a
traditional dot-matrix printer. A series of motors, controlled
by the NXT set, positions the print-head (a marker in this
case), and then steps it down to touch the paper to create one
dot of the overall image. It then repeats the process until the
image is completed. The printer doe