Some of our readers will remember the Lego Street View car that we featured on the site back it June, it was built by Mark Crosbie,and now Mark has built another version, the Lego Street View Car 2.

The new Lego Street View car now uses an iPhone with iOS 5, and Mark says he chose the iPhone for the cars camera as the photos can be automatically uploaded to PhotoStream.

I wanted to re-build the car to only use the Lego Mindstorms NXT motors. I was also keen to make it look more….car-like. The result, after 4 months of experimentation, is version 2.0 of the Lego Street View Car.

Constructing a fully operational printer is not child’s play. Try telling that to Leon Overweel, the 14-year old kid who created PriNXT, a fully functional black-and-white printer… made of LEGOs.

The printer operates via felt tip pen controlled by motors. The image you want to print is converted into a text file containing 1s and 0s using Paint.NET. This text file is then imported into RobotC. RobotC, by the way, is the brain of all the other robots in by Lego Mindstorms and it is based on the C programming language.

So how many motors does it take to power a PriNXT? Just three. The first to control the horizontal and vertical moti ... Read more »