Lego hole-punch for paper-meets-Lego projects

Muji's going to start selling hole-punches that knock out patterns that can be threaded between two Lego bricks. They go on sale in a week, and open up many possibilities for crafty Lego extensions.

LEGO for MUJI Paper and Block Sets (via Make)

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jfrancis

Good idea. Is this new? I wonder if someone at LEGO is in trouble for not coming up with this in house ages ago.
Daemon

I was actually expecting this to be a lego hole punch. You know, a punch that could be hooked up to technics and/or controlled via mindstorm.
igpajo

I wonder if this has anything to do with this kid:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/a-seven-year-old-boys-top-secret-lego-plans/#comments
Dewi Morgan

It would be cooler if the hole punch had lego hodules and technics holes, yeah. Except, lego had trouble getting much force out: I’d always get the fragile gears to snap and shatter before I got a handle on the amount of force they could take.

Which was good learning-stuff in itself.

If you can use this punch with thin leather, canvas, or parchment, you’ll get immediate lego-steampunk hinges and such.