Block Party is an interactive nightclub exclusively for LEGO minfigures. There are no VIPs here, everyone is welcome because everyone is awesome!
Living in London for 5 years, I was inspired by the nightlife there. There's no shortage of music genres to choose from when it comes to nightlife, and I loved to gravitate towards the electronic genres.
This is where the idea began. I was just messing around with a light brick and pretending it was a strobe light by pressing it in quick succession. Then I thought, what if i could automate that somehow?
So i hooked it up to a 4 tooth 'knob' gear with a transparent faceted half dome to refract the light, and I doubled this to create two "strobe" lights!
Then I hooked up another motor to a mechanism that moves a 'board' up and down. Then i needed a dance floor with holes in it so that each dancer could sit on a peg, when the board pushes the pegs the dancers appear to move up and down! All that was left to do was make the club 'arena', and two extra cams for the podium dancers at the back!
The visuals come from a randomised visual generator that runs in your browser!
I did also add a third motor to control a disco ball!