Lego railway and through a house and garden [video](youtube.com)

60 pointsby Tomtevor 9 Jahren15 comments

Lego railway and through a house and garden [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLpVTwlAE8

9 comments

suprfnkvor 9 Jahren

This is fun to see and all, but what has this got to do with 'hacker news'? There is no in-depth information about how it was built, how it was programmed or something like that. It's not a new concept, this has been done a lot of times. The video isn't even new, it's from january.

I really don't mean to be negative, but I just don't see why this is on the frontpage of hacker news.

bigjumpvor 9 Jahren

It's on the front page - because it's awesome!

Had me mesmerised and took my mind off thinking about the next new JavaScript thing.

Tomtevor 9 Jahren

But to be fair, he's not exactly wrong.

I usually just point people who complain about my submissions to the site guidelines, but this was the first time I actually thought "well, I probably got carried away and shouldn't have posted it" and was fine with people flagging it off the front page.

aaron695vor 9 Jahren

I suspect the song being well choreographed with appropriate background noise was the memes' vector here.

I was "stupid lego video, how did it get so many votes", so watched it and actually enjoyed it.

It had something to it that was unusual brain candy. That was the hack part. Intentional or not.

bthachdevvor 9 Jahren

maybe people are bored with technology news

Mindless2112vor 9 Jahren

Lego trains + Arduino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEekXRNztVI

footavor 9 Jahren

Can't help but think of how much of a pain that would have been to live with. Imagine all the stubbed toes.

footavor 9 Jahren

Did anyone else get motion sickness watching this?

m00s3vor 9 Jahren

Meh. It's interesting because it's long. Nothing else of interest in the layout.

rdiddlyvor 9 Jahren

bewildered dogs at 0:54

the target demographic (the dad that is - the two kids would rather be playing the sportsball) at 2:15 & 2:40

bored wife or teenager totally not into it at 3:03

dogma1138vor 9 Jahren

H.N.I.R.

Animatsvor 9 Jahren

Really overdoing it. Minatur Wunderland, Hamburg.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxr_PTDkNXM

gkyavor 9 Jahren

That's so uncannily realistic.

torvaldvor 9 Jahren

Why do it when you can overdo it.

preinheimervor 9 Jahren

We've got a fair amount of lego train sets, I just wish it was easier to get them to interact with the recent Mindstorm sets. I'd love to program the Mindstorm to control the trains & tracks, but that's not an out of the box option.