While it isn’t capable of building Death Stars or anything too complex at the moment (in fact, it can only build designs 12 bricks high), you can take a stab at building your own Lego 3D printer ...

Introducing the home-made LEGO 3D printer… with a chocolate extruder. [Gosse Adema] has been working on his LEGO based 3D printer for a while now, and it’s gotten pretty good.

LEGO parts are plastic. 3D printers make parts out of plastic. So the transitive property tells us that a LEGO 3D printer should be able to recreate itself. This one’s not quite there yet, mo… ...

Seeing the MakerLegoBot create a house out of Lego makes my inner child pretty excited. Objectively I know that this 3D printer isn't even in the same field as MakerBot or RepRap, let alone the ...

Inspired by the open-source 3D printer MakerBot, the machine is made of more than 2,400 bricks and runs on three NXT Intelligent Bricks and nine NXT motors. A PC running the MLCad Lego design ...

The 3D printer was crewed using a number of resources from the web to build the components together with a heated bed and controller board. Watch the video below to see it in action.

Comments Scientists have used Lego to build a 3D printer (Picture: Getty) It has been used to build a life-sized velociraptor, the Batmobile and a six-foot replica of the space shuttle.

What you will need, however, is a 3D printer. 3D printers will print anything made of plastic, quickly and in any shape you like. But there’s a lot they cannot do.