Ladyada's Workshop in Lego

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Artist Bruce Lowell recreated Limor Fried's Adafruit workshop in Lego and submitted it to LEGO CUUSOO. I hope it gets the 10,000 votes needed for Lego to manufacture it as a set!

Ladyada's workshop is a place where you explore all the cool things you build and use when you're an engineer! Computers, pick-and-place machine, laser cutter, soldering station and more! In Ladyada's workshop you can run your own open-source hardware electronics company, complete with Mosfet the cat.

Ladyada's Workshop in Lego

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Coincidentally, I was listening to this great interview with Limor today:
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2012/02/full-interview-limor-fried-on-open-source-hardware/
http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller

This is awesome in so many ways. But, I do note that there’s actually quite a lot of similarity with the “real” Lego Friends set “Olivia’s Inventor’s Workshop” http://friends.lego.com/en-us/Products/Details/3933.aspx, apart from the apparently–mandatory pink/purple/pastel color scheme. (The scale and detail of the Ladyada set is great, but would hit a higher price point, making it less accessible to many children.)