Useful LEGO Links
A collection of useful stuff we found on the web. Hopefully you find it as helpful as we did.
Build Techniques
- Building with LEGO: Bases and Borders (the Brick Blogger)
- Collection of LEGO Building Techniques (Reddit)
- Diagonal Connection Points (Cactus Brick)
- Gears Tutorial (Sariel)
- Gears Ratio Calculator (Sariel)
- Great Ball Contraption Module Instructions (Lawriege)
- Kinetic LEGO Sculpture Instructions (JK Brickworks)
- MINDSTORMS Building Tutorials (LEGO Education)
- MINDSTORMS Coding Tutorials (MakeCode)
- MINDSTORMS Lessons (LEGO Education)
- MINDSTORMS Lessons (LEGO Engineering Students)
- Physics of LEGO (UMontreal)
- Tips and Bricks (Instagram)
- Train Track Layout Geometry (Bill Ward's Brickpile)
- The LEGO Train Depot
- The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
Color and Element Reference Guides
Community Sites
- BrickNerd
- Brickset (forum community and resource index)
- Eurobricks (global community forum)
- FBTB (LEGO Star Wars community)
- Flickr (search for LEGO tags and Flickr Groups)
- Instagram (search for LEGO hashtags)
- LEGO IDEAS
- LUGNET (LEGO Users' Group Network)
- Rebrickable
- Reddit (r/lego, r/legomarket, r/afol, etc...)
Digital CAD Designer Software
News and Fan Blogs
Official Set Instructions
Organization and Storage
Parts Catalogues and Analysis
Shopping and Sale Tracking
- Amazon Discount Tracker (Brickset)
- Big Ben Bricks
- BrickArms
- BrickForge
- BrickLink (secondary market for sets, minifigures, parts, etc.)
- Brick Owl (secondary market for sets, minifigures, parts, etc.)
- Bricks and Pieces (LEGO's replacement parts service)
- BrickMania
- Brickseek Target Inventory Checker
- Brickseek Walmart Inventory Checker
- Citizen Brick
- EclipseGrafx
- LEGO Set Deals (Reddit)
- LightMyBricks (third party LEGO lighting kits)
- Milton Train Works