Rolls Royce Recreate Boeing Engine Out Of 152,455 Lego Bricks
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Rolls Royce Recreate Boeing Engine Out Of 152,455 Lego Bricks

There’s very little that surprises us these days about Lego, such is the extraordinary amount of quite-breathtaking builds we’ve witnessed through the years. But even so, this effort by Rolls Royce to reproduce the Trent-1000 engine is staggering, showing off in glorious detail the inner-workings of the engine and the immense feat in engineering it requires to build such a piece of machinery.

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Lego Back To The Future Coming Soon

 

Prepare to witness perfection in blocked form, as the official Lego Back To The Future set has now been accepted to the evaluation stage, in preparation to start a limited edition run of these rather glorious models.

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The First Lego Man Sent To Space

Mixing both out love of space and LEGO, Toronto-based high school students Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad have been successful in sending a lego figurine 80,000 feet above sea level, using a weather balloon.

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Lego Train set used to build data network

We're going to pick up the pieces, and build a Lego IP data-transfer network out of a train set, courtesy of Hackaday.com.

Possibly one of the slowest speed rates out there; but also the most charming.  Hacker Maximillien has devised a system that utilises a USB flash drive, to carry data around to different nodes (we'll call them stations) on the rail.  The four nodes consist of aluminium foil contacts, which establish the connection from the attached computer to the USB storage on-board the train.  After the data is sent across, the drive is unmounted and the power flow is transferred to the train to propel it forwards to it's next requested destination.

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