Too geek to function.
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Fabulandosa
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. I’ve made a new chonky chum for my mum’s Happy Plants, please say hello to Fabulandosa! Best known for his wonderful storytelling skills, this hardy little chap was first introduced to the UK in 1979.
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Gnome Sweet Gnome
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. Norman the Gnome is my latest Lego Ideas product idea. If you want a cute wee friend for your house too, please consider supporting him.
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Sharing My Story
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute. It’s been a busy, but rewarding, week at work and home. In the last 24 hours The Lego Group have published two personal videos documenting my sight loss disability and love for building with Braille bricks.
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Cheesy Rider
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. Here is my latest Fabuland model which debuted at Bricktastic 2025. Hope you like cheesy puns!
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Build your own paddle steamer
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. Build your own microscale paddle steamer, free PDF instructions and parts are now available on Rebrickable.
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Five Years of Sight Loss
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Over the last five years I have written personal blog posts detailing my traumatic sight loss journey. To help others better understand the significant changes in my vision I also created a series of interactive simulations (H5P files).
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New Hashima Hoverbike
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. Build your own cute New Hashima hoverbike, free instructions now on Rebrickable.
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A Nip of Whisky
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. Celebrated 25 years at the University of Edinburgh in December 2024. Received a lovely commemorative decanter from the principal at the historic Playfair Library. Don’t drink whisky, so Lego it is!
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Building a new home for Teaching Matters
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. The University of Edinburgh’s popular Teaching Matters blog was successfully migrated from a standalone WordPress instance created in 2016 to the Academic Blogging Service’s WordPress service. This short post focuses on the technical challenges, new features and support/security benefits.
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Book of Retro Lego Sets
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute. Chuffed to have an interview with Geneva Durand in the Blocks Magazine ‘Book of Retro Lego Sets’ Volume II.
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Maid of Fabuland
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes. Lego kindly invited me to build a Fabuland ship for the prestigious Lego House in Denmark. Going blind in one eye has been the hardest year and this creative challenge absolutely helped me move forward. Read about the ‘Maid of Fabuland’ paddle steamer and one of the happiest days ever.
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Women in STEM Illustrations
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2024, I created two new colouring-in illustrations of notable Women in STEM – author and codebreaker Irene Jessie Brown, and geologist Charlotte Murchison. I also discuss AI enhancement tools and vision loss challenges associated with my design process.
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![‘Pizza Time Fighter’ 🕸️🍕🕸️
Had tonnes of fun designing this #SpiderMan and TIE Fighter mash-up for the latest #LegoIdeas build challenge ‘Hope Assembles’, where #StarWars meets Marvel.
Friend or foe, and no matter where you are in the galaxy, Spider-Man is happy to deliver a slice of New York City pizza in his converted TIE Fighter. Feeling spicy? Push the black olive button, and fire delicious NYC pizzas at the Empire!
P.S. You still have 15 days to enter, and there are three different challenges to choose from (vehicle, scene or character).
[Image Description:
Image 1: Spider-Man swings on a web in front of a blue and red web-strewn TIE fighter starship, while an Imperial Stormtrooper runs away from a pizza slice on a yellow dotted background.
Image 2: A close-up side angle reveals the ‘Pizza Time Fighter’ play features, a pizza tile stud shooter.
Image 3: A top-down view shows the webbed wings covered with pizza boxes, pizza slices, rats, Daily Bugle newspapers, blasters, and Stormtrooper helmets.
Image 4: Spider-Man and a helmet-less Stormtrooper minifigure sit together eating pizza slices next to a rat and pizza boxes.]](https://stubot.me/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)