{"id":12418,"date":"2017-07-27T12:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:51:22","slug":"meet-the-creator-arthur-sacek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/meet-the-creator-arthur-sacek\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Creator: Arthur Sacek"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arthur Sacek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arthur Sacek is a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has a background in product design and has worked for\u00a0Zoom Education for Life<\/em> for many years. He is known for his amazing LEGO machines including a CNC machine and, most recently, a paper airplane launcher. He has turned his hobby of playing with LEGO into a career. He begins working for LEGO Education in Billund in August 2017.<\/p>\n

How did you get started building with LEGO bricks?<\/h4>\n

My father used to give me LEGO sets for Christmas and birthdays, but my first contact with motorized sets was in high school. There was a robotics lab with some LEGO MINDSTORMS RCX and Control Lab sets. But, most of the time the lab was closed, so I asked the principal if I could use it with some friends.<\/p>\n

With approval, we started to spend most of our afternoons in that place, building just for fun. It was awesome.<\/p>\n

Which project (or projects) are you the most proud of? Why?<\/h4>\n

The Milling Machines. I spent only one week building the first version, but I had been dreaming for over a year before getting my hands on the bricks. The biggest challenge was the conversion of the 3D coordinates into the data that the NXT could read.<\/p>\n

It was a huge surprise when I got the first object milled. I was not expecting so much precision.<\/p>\n