Fully Functioning Lego Air Conditioner

When Nathan Sawaya was asked to make a replica Lego air-con unit for manufacturer Carrier, he did what any good hardware hacker and maker would do: Sawaya decided to make it fully functional:

I thought "Nathan, let's not just make a replica of an air conditioner. No, Nathan, here's a golden opportunity to make something cool. Let's make a functioning air conditioner. Now that would be cool!"

And, aside from his worrying tendency to address himself in the third person plural, it is cool. The first model was completed for last year's Carrier Convention, but this year Nathan was back, with a model for Bryant.

It is a very rare event in a young man's life when he asked to build a functioning air conditioner out of LEGO bricks. It is absolutely extraordinary when he is asked to build a second functioning air conditioner out of LEGO bricks. I am that man.

This opens up a whole new world of Lego home appliances, although a Lego stove might not be such a practical idea.

Bryant gallery [Brickartist.com via Neatorama]

Carrier gallery [Brickartist]