Nano Building System

9 responses to “Nano Building System”

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   BenODen

   Feb 10, 2005 at 5:57 am

   Mega nano blocks! YAY! *laugh* How sad.

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   jurvetson

   Feb 10, 2005 at 6:18 am

   and these small pieces are not compatible with anything else….

   When Google built their first disk array, they used Duplo blocks for the framing to hold the individual drives.

   Perhaps these could be used for a RAIUD
   (Redundant Array of Inexpensive USB Drives).

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   BenODen

   Feb 10, 2005 at 6:27 am

   Of course not compatable, Lego might sue after all! Hmmf.

   RAIUD! RAD! 😀 SLOWH. I just heard of a deal tonight that could get you drives for a 6 drive 1TB Raid 5 for around $500. Fairly impressive, even if the drives are the WD AB drives, which I hear are dog slow. It’d beat RAIUD. *grin*

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4. 

   spyzter

   Feb 10, 2005 at 9:03 am

   Some guy made a PC out of Legos, but you probably already knew that…

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   jurvetson

   Feb 10, 2005 at 5:35 pm

   Spy-man: I had not seen that. Wow. Some real fans out there…

   Ben: RAIUD is purely theoretical at this point. A technology looking for a market… outside of the Lego robot niche… 😉

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6. 

   complexify.

   Feb 10, 2005 at 10:17 pm

   Steve: I’m not sure if this meets your definition of RAIUD, but someone’s already made an iPod Shuffle RAID out of four 1gb Shuffles and a USB 2.0 hub (using OSX). And adding some colorful "Mega-Nano" blocks could spice up the design. 😉

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   jurvetson

   Feb 11, 2005 at 2:00 am

   absolutely. You knew it had to happen… 😉

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8. 

   Victor1

   Feb 22, 2005 at 6:09 am

   Brace yourself for a repeat of the "TURBO" level of cool-word wear out with ‘nano’ which will have nano-logic justifying its nano-value but macro scale features. The trend is your friend…

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   no_onions

   Jan 25, 2006 at 7:20 pm

   Not lego

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