Just a Lego robot strumming a ukulele
Even a collection of plastic blocks needs to get on island time once in a while
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The ukelele robot is ready to be the soundtrack to your automated credit card commercials and wistful short films.
While many of us spent our youth looking at Lego blocks as ways to build questionably designed little houses or as fascinating objects to stuff into our noses, they’re also, it turns out, capable of serving as excellent musical tools. YouTube’s FuzzyBrick, not willing to let the Lego company corner the market on calming plastic soundscapes, has proved this point by creating a ukulele robot that uses the power of toy blocks to automatically play Elvis covers.