For a long time, LEGO Group has been looking for ways to prevent set leaks. Now, a solution to this problem has finally appeared in Ideas's works - that is, to encrypt with "Password Machine"!
LEGO Ideas works " Secret Code Machine" (Cipher Machine) again again Ideas fans 
0,000 votes, became the 15th work for the third round of review of this year's LEGO Ideas project group group .
cryptography , that is, the encryption of messages. The first coded information can be traced back to the fourth thousand BC. The one that everyone is more familiar with is Ancient Greek The Heavenly Book or Caesar Code used to convey military information.
466, Italy Leon Batista Alberti used a password disk to convey secret messages, and strangers could not decipher such passwords. In 1918, the first mechanical machine based on Leibniz mechanical manufacturing concept was put into use. During the Second World War , Germany's Ngima stumped many countries, and Germany's military orders conveyed and deciphered the message through Ngima. In 2014, this history was adapted into the movie "Imitation Game" and brought to the big screen.
The author of "Password Machine" is Nords , also known as Chris Nordberg , the author from the UK is an application programmer in real life. His first contact with Lego was when he was five or six years old. He received his first Lego suit in his life. Now as an adult, he also works in his spare time.
Chris came into contact with the Ideas community in January 2016. If you often follow the news about Ideas 10,000 votes, you may remember him. His work Chiti Chiti Bangbang has entered the review twice.
Chris submitted his work "Password Machine" in the Ideas community on February 7 this year, and received 1,000 votes in support within two weeks. It received 5,000 votes in just two months. 242 days later, Chris entered the "0K Club Member Club Part " for the third time.
This work contains 350 parts, the overall work has a strong steampunk style, and the shape refers to the design of the Victorian era. The large amount of gold and dark gray brings us a bright feeling. The scroll wheel on the left of can enter the message (plain text or encoding), and the on the right of will display the decoded message .
In addition to the pictures, Chris also released a 3-minute video, which helps us understand the specific situation of the work in all aspects. If you are very interested in this work, you might as well watch the video below.
For me, this model is a microcosm of my youth. I clearly remember that when I was in school, we often used our encrypted calls to keep information confidential with our friends. This work does not believe it provides the option to encrypt messages, and also provides the option to decode messages on the other side. Designs like are undoubtedly successful.
But my like is not particularly important. I try to evaluate this work from the perspective of Lego. Is this work suitable for the Ideas series? I checked my past works and found that such drafts have never been reviewed. Only the sheriff’s safe had similar ideas during the second review in 2020. But in Billon's review, the work was rejected. Later the Sheriff's safe got a second chance in the first round of the BrickLink Designer Program.
In Lego's product, we have never seen such a work, and works on this topic have never appeared in any series . This work itself is also very consistent with many of Ideas's and . If the password machine can pass smoothly in the final review, I will definitely buy this set of !
At this point, 15 works have entered the third round of review stage of the Ideas platform in 2022. The other 14 works are
sewer hero: Fight with Fateberg , Jinya Temple , James Webber Space Telescope , , Lei Bird , , Wright glider , The God of Zelda , Flying House Travel Notes , Travel Box , Japanese Characteristic Garden , Lost City , Pac Man , Ancient Roman Temple , This is very good , Dracula Castle .
