How to: Make LEGO powered Automatic Book Scanner

When we featured the plotter made with LEGO blocks in July, we thought that was quite amazing. But, then we had geeks with LEGO based knitting machines and all other kind of crazy gadgets made with LEGO blocks that each one of such hacks looked even more crazier and awesome.

But, this one perhaps takes the cake while solving one big problem - making a boring work of scanning books easy, fun and cheap. Created by  Muranushi Tayaki, this automatic book scanner, opens each page of the book and scans the content, making the whole process  automatic. 

Here's a video of the LEGO book scanner in action:

Sheer genius. The details and plans for building one such scanner are here.