Building Brick (stamp)

* Dragoma Exivus
* Dragoma Inferno

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> "*A painful but convenient tool for building imagination from Dante's childhood. Construct anything from slick draconic bows to battle ready robots, these building bricks will get you hooked!*"
> — Item / stamp description, Dragoma Exivus and Dragoma Inferno.
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**Building Brick** *(レンガの構築 Renga no kōchiku)* is one of the 45 Infernolab stamps to be collected throughout Dragoma Exivus.

## How to Obtain

A sketch that resembles *Building Brick* can be found in the Hee Haw Mart in Zenin, scribbled on the poster of the store. The stamp will be rewarded once the player defeats Lughnasadh TRI without Zenith Breaks at the Golden Booth.

## Robot based Inspiration

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> "*I have been playing with LEGO for as long as I can remember, and they have come in extremely handy for prototyping and modeling mechanical and creative designs, including 2A, Tesseract, and Towering Inferno. They're not only a toy for kids but a valuable design and engineering tool.*"
> — Jason's experience with LEGO.
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The stamp is highly based off of Jason's doodle, *Building Brick*. In 1992, Jason first developed his love for LEGO when he created his music video with a Fischer camcorder over the holidays. After a brief visit to LEGO Land in Billund, Denmark, in early 1999, he created **2A**, a 15lb infrared remote-control combat robot for a LEGO Mindstorms promotion at the E3 trade show. Building with LEGO, he revised and modified designs over and over extremely quickly. Repairs and upgrades after tangling with the other fighting robots were a snap since 2A ended up with the 3rd place trophy.

In par with 2A, another combat robot in research into a future RoboGladiator weapon, Jason created **Sparky**. The experimental bot is a 108V sparking contraption powered by 72AA batteries in 12 battery boxes. It uses *lots* of electric cables and *lots* of electric plates.

Another combat LEGO robot, called **Tesseract**, was demoed at *BotBash2000,* where it demonstrated it's weapon gimmick against other LEGO bots.

His next foray into LEGO design were the pair of bots named **Itchy** & **Scratchy**. These 2 lightweight bots were designed for the 2001 E3 trade show at the *Mindstorms Mayhem* competition at the LEGO booth. Itchy had a hoop for collecting ping pong balls & bashing other bots on the head, while Scratchy had a large, weighted disc with claws, spinning at about 600 RPM, to launch balls & bot parts.

At a 2002 robotics workshop for Santa Barbara county 3rd-12th grade students enrolled in the *Robo-Challenge* curriculum, Bardis gave robot demos & entered 2 LEGO bots in the tug-o-war competition: **Longneck and the Infernal Brick of Despair**, which came in 1st & 2nd place. They didn't fare as well in subsequent tug-o-war events. In a design and modeling class at *UCSB*, he used LEGO bricks to make 3-D mockups of the class projects: a children's playground, a roach coach lunch truck, an amusement park thrill ride. After fleshing out the designs with LEGO, he created 3D CAD models with *Pro/Engineer*. For the engineering design class he took many years ago, Jason was required to make and pitch mockup models. While most students were struggling with popsicle sticks, poster board, and drinking straws, Bardis was snapping together LEGO bricks. The professor of that class ended up using photographs and CAD drawings of his thrill ride design as documentation to their Mechanical Engineering department that he deserved tenure.

Longneck and The Infernal Brick of Despair.LEGO bot, Itchy.LEGO bot, Scratchy.Animated title for the Building Brick stamp.
## Trivia

* Building Brick is a code word for LEGO, reflecting off of Jason's love and hobby for LEGO.

## External Links

* http://infernolab.com/projectfiles/lego.html