We aren’t sure how accurate you can get with LEGO, but a building block orrery looks cool, if nothing else. [Marian42] saw one done a few years ago and decided to build a version with a different ...

On 1st March this year LEGO released set 42179: Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit which is a LEGO version of an orrery, a type of mechanical model that depicts the movements of the bodies in our solar ...

An orrery is a model that can simulate the relative positions and orbits of planets by arranging planets with a rotating mechanism around the sun. Its origins date back to the BC era, and the official ...

Many people enjoy building LEGOs no matter their age. The same goes for space-related stuff. When those two come together, the perfect product appears. Unfortunately, besides NASA aircraft and some ...

Orre-what? It’s a mechanical device whose resulting motions follow the orbital paths of our solar system’s heavenly bodies. Seen below is the finished project of Make enthusiast Guy Himber who ...

A vastly scaled-down Lego version of the Earth, orbiting the Sun, with its moon in tow, is oddly beautiful. An orrery of beauty. An orrery is a clockwork model of the solar system, or of just the sun, ...

Is the unmistakable sound of the shuffling of LEGO pieces being dug through burned into your psyche? Did the catalog of ever more complex Technic pieces send your imagination soaring into the ...