The National Museum of Computing goes Marie Kondo at Christmas: Luckily all the Lego sparks joy

The National Museum of Computing got a helping hand from some Lego-curating volunteers last week to get ready for post-Christmas activities. angry lego minifig man turns on anxious lego minifig man How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests READ MORE The volunteers came from the …

[Pascal Monett]

"the Lego was now shipshape and ready for Winter Bytes family events"

So, they'll be back to sort out the Lego again in January I take ? There are worse jobs :)

BTW : brilliant caption on the top pic !

[GlenP]

Re: "the Lego was now shipshape and ready for Winter Bytes family events"

BTW : brilliant caption on the top pic !

Except for using the Americanism, "a Lego".

[sbt]

You get a lego, and you get a lego and you get a lego!

Now corrected. But El Reg seem to be excelling themselves this week with the article pics. I particularly enjoyed the Canadian one.

[A K Stiles]

Re: "the Lego was now shipshape and ready for Winter Bytes family events"

Hmm - wonder if I can convince work that this is a good local community volunteering opportunity?

"We need to go and help NMOC sort out their STEM engagement equipment in the post-christmas lull". Don't have an age-appropriate fledgling so they're not going to let me play with sort their lego at normal times.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Lego sorting machine

Couldn't Daniel West chip in with his AI Lego sorting machine?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/06/lego_sorting_machine/

[d3vy]

Re: Lego sorting machine

Had the same thought but 1 piece every 2 seconds might be the issue there...

I suspect a bunch of volunteers can do the job faster and with fewer errors for the time being.

[Mark 85]

Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers (APDO)

Who would have thought that such an organization actually exists? Is there one for phone sanitizers?

[Ken Moorhouse]

Re: Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers (APDO)

None of its practitioners are able to prove they are members because they've decluttered their membership certificates.

[hatti]

Ice Cream tub

I didn't realise Lego curator was an actual job, I thought it was just like playing with Lego but not actually sticking the bricks together, it's amazing what you learn on el Reg. I hope they used upcycled ice cream tubs for the sorting as per regulation Lego play.