IKEA LEGO Table. Furniture Published on January 26th, 2011 | by Jules IKEAHacker Materials: Ramvik Description: When I moved in I bought an IKEA Ramvik table and while travelling this summer I had an idea (don’t ask why): decorate its top with Lego bricks used as pixels.
Here are the steps I went through. If you don’t care about those steps and want to see a nice time-lapse video, scroll to the end of the article! Lego bricks First things first. Table specs Knowing my table size I had various options, depending on the “pixel size” I’d choose. I chose the 4×4 option, quite cheap and still offering a cool number of pixels. Design 36×16 pixels of freedom, that’s it. Looking good. The Lego palette I set my type to white, on a black background. You may notice that Lego’s black is a little bit light and the grays are yellowish.
Time to order bricks! Already? So I fired up Flash Builder and came up with PaletteCounter a simple, OpenSource, app to count pixels of each color. Time to order! Really? Let’s do this The Author. Learn How to Knit. How To Make a Wall-Mounted Magnetic Spice Rack Reader Tips.
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