Wow, 6,144 pixels. When I started this project, I had no idea the scope/size it would end up to be. 6,144 pixels... that is a lot of pieces! After crunching the numbers, if I were to source 1x1 blocks for every pixel, it would cost me well over $300 dollars to make this "hobby." So, how can I bring down the cost?
I went onto BrickLink to see what the cheapest pieces were and how I could use them to my advantage while maintaining a pretty clean/symmetrical look. Looking at the prices, I could get 2x2 black pieces for between 1.5 to 2.5 cents a piece, which is much better then 1x1's for 2 to 3 cents a piece. Okay, I was sold, I orderd about 1,200 black pieces in order to make up the bulk of my "pixel count" that left roughly 2,000 pieces in the remaining colors that I needed (plus a few hundred blacks 1x1s).
In the end, I spent roughly $100 dollars on this piece of art, which seeing as Lego's "price per 1000 pieces" rate is roughly $100 per 1,000 pieces (check out the star destroyer kit or the death star). In the end I made up my mosaic with roughly 3,200 pieces.
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Update: Maker Faire 2007 Austin. For those of you finding this site after visiting our booth at Maker Faire, feel free to leave comments or shoot me an email if you end up creating your own Lego Mosaic, I look forward to featuring your creation on here as soon as you email it to me at: legomosaic@gmail.com (yes for those of you who have my card, it's a different address, but will still get to me).
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