2 Feb 2014






Hi, this is the link for the following video.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25446912


This is the transcription.



It was an incredible amount of money, the Lego just keep kind of creeping up on its needing different parts and different sizes and we were experimenting, make some mistakes and have to thrown handsome broken pieces and come back.
The interesting things about engines is that we all have in our mind that the combustion engine is the only way, but there are many different types of engines, a pneumatic                engine which this is- the technology is been around for  many long time-, and Lego has a lot of flexible parts  and if you have got the imagination and the knowledge you can put it together and it is quite an engineering feat but the thing that it’s exciting for me is that it reminds people in the auto industry or in any other industry that sometimes we forget the different forms of technology we can employ to do interesting things and we chose Lego really as the example to open up people’s mind because we know people lovely goes so much .
It has got a lot of energy and a lot of torque, it goes into it, it has got four air- powered engines, 256 pistons that move the driveshaft in a single key.
We did it under safety control conditions but I have to say that at the end of the “day” if there was ever a crash, I don’t think it would be much car left, let’s put it that way!!







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