This is splorp.

ISSN 1496-3221

October 16, 2004

Slick as a brick.

Mark Simonson somehow managed to mash three of my favourite obsessions — typography, computer hardware, and Lego® — into one marvelous example of basement ingenuity. His typositor film scanning jig is not so much a Rube Goldberg-style, single-use contraption as it is simply another example of how Lego is the best and most flexible rapid application development tool for mechanized ideas. Sort of a HyperCard with plastic bricks, if you will.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

Categories:

Leave a comment or send a trackback from your own site.

Leave a comment.

Use these HTML elements and attributes to format your comment:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>