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The LEGO Super Friends Project

By ⋅ August 12, 2014 ⋅ 21 comments

When the LEGO Friends line was introduced, it was met with mixed reviews. Many little girls loved it and LEGO builders liked the colors that were introduced with the line, but it was often derided for its more doll-like minifigures and its conformation to female stereotypes. It was such discussions, and the desire to utilize the same figures in order to the break the stereotypes that they had been assigned, that led me to start the LEGO Super Friends Project.

Arduino and LEGO Projects – My Book Is Finally Available!

By ⋅ June 26, 2013 ⋅ 4 comments

For the better part of the last year, I have been building, wiring, coding and writing projects for my first book. After all the months put in to the creation of the book, I am proud to say that my first book, Arduino and LEGO Projects is now available from Apress Books!

Lego TARDIS

By ⋅ September 3, 2010 ⋅ 32 comments

Earlier this summer, I was trying to think of some new ideas to build for the upcoming BrickFair. At the same time, I was watching the new series of Doctor Who and the two ideas came together. An amalgam of the Doctor’s time travel device and the Lego bricks with a technological twist was the goal.

Wings of a Butterfly (How Twestival Changed My Life)

By ⋅ July 16, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

On February 12, 2009, Twestival not only raised $24,000 in New York City and $250,000 worldwide, but it changed my life as well.

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