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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCrowd-funded Lego car powered by air
Crowd-funded Lego car powered by air
19 December 2013 Last updated at 11:06 ET
An air-powered car built of Lego, that can reach a top speed of around 20km/h (12mph) has hit the roads of Melbourne.
It was built by an Australian entrepreneur and a Romanian technologist who used more than 500,000 pieces of Lego to complete the car.
The crowd-funded project began with a tweet asking people to invest in an "awesome" start-up.
Four air-powered engines and 256 pistons, all built of Lego bricks, enable the car to move.
Everything bar the wheels is made from Lego...
Full article & video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25446912
19 December 2013 Last updated at 11:06 ET
An air-powered car built of Lego, that can reach a top speed of around 20km/h (12mph) has hit the roads of Melbourne.
It was built by an Australian entrepreneur and a Romanian technologist who used more than 500,000 pieces of Lego to complete the car.
The crowd-funded project began with a tweet asking people to invest in an "awesome" start-up.
Four air-powered engines and 256 pistons, all built of Lego bricks, enable the car to move.
Everything bar the wheels is made from Lego...
Full article & video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25446912
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Crowd-funded Lego car powered by air (Original Post)
think
Dec 2013
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SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)1. Man, I hope they used Gorilla Glue on that thing!
A Lego car? All I can see in my head is a Lego video game where the objects just burst into hundreds of pieces..
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)2. Hmm can an air car be mass produced?
as a real car not legos
think
(11,641 posts)3. Perhaps. Peugot is working on a gas / air hybrid
http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en/inside-our-industrial-environment/innovation-and-rd/hybrid-air-an-innovative-full-hybrid-gasoline-system-article
And these guys have been at it for some time. Not sure of they are still making any progress in mass producing them but the models they are kind of early prototypes and fairly noisy:
http://www.mdi.lu/english/
And these guys have been at it for some time. Not sure of they are still making any progress in mass producing them but the models they are kind of early prototypes and fairly noisy:
http://www.mdi.lu/english/
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)4. cue the Republican who says Air is a finite resource and we will run out of it if we use it to power
a car