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It has a Lego frame underneath, but I've skinned it with metal foil. It even has a quad exhaust at the back.

Thats pretty cool looking. Any more pics?
 
You get a million kudos points if the light flashes and rotates, too.

Even if it doesn't, you get half a million.

And a bonus million if it's bigger on the inside...That is a very cool Lego model :) I think we still have a few boxes lying around. We had the petrol/service station and a medieval castle, and for a robotics subject in high school we were using the Lego sets with the programmable computers which was a lot of fun.
 
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There's no real friction since legos are so smooth. He uses lego pistons like these:

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Compressed air is shot through some plastic tubing into them, they turn camshafts, which in turn flip two way valves so the pistons can have an intake and exhaust cycle, which allows them to continue moving up and down.

Here's more about his engine development with vids! http://www.nicjasno.com/taxonomy/term/37

awesome

i bet you could make a stirling engine from lego....those things just need a little heat (and a regenerator...thats gonna have to be metal) and away they go. crummy power density tho
 
[youtube="Sv5iEK-IEzw"]Eddie Izzard ? Death Star Canteen in Lego[/youtube]​

Eddie Izzard was a guest on The Graham Norton show a few weeks ago and he was shown this and he thought it was very funny.

Seems it?s been around the internets for a while, but for those of you who haven?t seen it before I thought it was worth a post in here too.:)
 
Took 6 hours of back breaking on the floor to assemble but it's there!

Psh, fist time at the dinner table took me 3.5 hours, second time on the floor without everything sorted in baggies (after i built the optional model and decided i hated that one and tore it apart again) took me just over 3 hours. You need more training, go out and buy more Legos!

cool!

what does it do?

It has a motor-operated winch, working LED headlights, and it can raise or lower it's suspension by little over 2 cm (also motor-operated). And it has a very cool cogwheel that slips if the torwue exceeds a certain amount, to prevent the engine and lots of legos from breaking once the suspension movement hits the end of the allowed movement.
 
The biggest set back were my legs falling asleep, so I had to shift around and go for walks a lot. I'm actually thinking of making a buggy out of this with the fully working suspension/differential/motor I got from this. :)
 
Just spotted this on B3TA, it's sort of relevant.
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Proof at last, that's definitely Ben Collins :)
 
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And quiet a few other ones. Mindstorm kicks ass, but I need to get a computer with a serial port and Win 98 to run the programming software :(
 
I could never afford those Lego Mindstorms sets... but that's why I joined the robotics team in elementary school and took robotics class in high school. Also, the new Mindstorm sets use USB (that's what we used in high school). As for my Lego, I've got a whole bunch, but one of my favourites is this:

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Not my pic but you get the point.
 
Can't has, twas birthday present for my being in the airline industry

Rearranged some of our sets, the plane and tower crane are still ontop of another cupboard, and the eiffel is in the other room, oh and the two choppers are three shelves up

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I actualy have this, no pic's ,it isent on display simply because I don't have the space at the moment, Criky that thing realy is huge....the UCS is a great line though, to bad its so expensive.

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anyone wanne hold a collection to get me the UCS falcon? :p
 
I actualy have this, no pic's ,it isent on display simply because I don't have the space at the moment, Criky that thing realy is huge....the UCS is a great line though, to bad its so expensive.

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anyone wanne hold a collection to get me the UCS falcon? :p

Omg you actually bought that thing? I remember seeing it in the Lego catalogue when I was a kid and I think it was $400.:?
 
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