What if your real computer was a super-sized Lego computer brick?

The M2x2 in action. | Image: Paul Staal

In 1979 - nearly 50 years ago - Lego jazzed up its very first spaceships with an iconic sloped computer brick that was just painted plastic. In 2022, we introduced you to the engineer who fit an actual tiny computer inside.

Now, industrial designer Paul Staal has flipped the script with a working desktop PC that's a super-sized homage to the classic computer brick (via Reddit and Hackster.io).

It's ten times bigger than the original:

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