Hot answers tagged compatibility
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Yes! You can add LEGO on top of DUPLO, and DUPLO on top of LEGO. Here's an example picture from The Brick Blogger:
Because stacking LEGO on top of DUPLO requires the particular LEGO tube design on the bottom (to fit in the hollow top of the DUPLO bricks), many "LEGO-compatible" bricks do not share this compatibility with DUPLO - at best, you can stack ...
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Yes.
The current Mindstorms sets are completely Technic orientated and use the Technic pins (i.e. [part:3673:7]) to connect to the newer Technic Beams (i.e. [part:32316:7]) as well as the original Technic Bricks (i.e. [part:3894:7])
The various different size pins and axles are the way to interchange between these.
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In some ways but not others, according to this post by Catsy at The Brothers Brick:
It was near-impossible to pull the legs off–I sawed through them where they join above the knees.
The tab that connects the waist to the torso is completely incompatible with any standard System connection I’ve tried.
The hands are not angled forward the way a ...
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The problem is that while in general MegaBloks bricks fit with LEGO bricks, the quality control on the MB bricks seems to be much lower*, so the bricks/studs and holes are not always the same size.
As an example, I recently acquired a MB HALO Covenant Banshee ship for my son, and can safely show that:
The holes in studs do not readily accept rods (in ...
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They are not compatible, the teeth are completely different.
Notice that the red old gear has 9 teeth and is the same size1 as a current 24-teeth, as illustrated by below:
The axle hole however is compatible, so you could have a construction using both types.
1. Actually, the distance between axles to have two of these red gears mesh is the same as the ...
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LEGO used to sell Converter Cables for Mindstorms NXT at a price of £8.99 / US$9.99 for 3 cables at their online shop, they can still be bought online from stores like Bricklink.
Considering the price of each cable converter it may be worth purchasing newer sensors/motors that are more advanced. The NXT system cables are separate from sensors and motors ...
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since the bionicle-pieces only have holes for technic-connections and no studs to use then directly with bricks, you'll have two possibilities:
build some kind of "adapter" using technic-pieces. you could use pegs to connect the bionicle-piece with some kind of technic-brick.
put the studs of your system-bricks into the bionicle-pieces technic-holes - ...
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It uses train wheels which means it should work on Lego track.
Sources:
Bricklink set inventory
LEGO Building Instructions lookup
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The first gear wheels, or cog wheels, were designed by Knud Kristiansen around 1964 or 65; the original Danish design patent was filed on March 1, 1965.
Under licence by LEGO, Samsonite manufactured and sold these gears in the USA from 1965-1972, and in Canada from 1965-74. The gears had studs on the top and tubes on the bottom. They could be made turnable ...
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Yes, you can use all RCX sensors and motors with a NXT brick. Don't forget about lamps, too.
The connections are different though, so as Ambo100 says, you will need converter cables. However, if you don't want to pay the full price for them, you can also make some yourself which isn't really that difficult.
The other thing you need to consider is how to ...
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Not necessarily.
It really depends on what you mean by "accurate." Most (probably 90% or more) of Mega Bloks elements have identical, or at least functionally identical, LEGO elements. However, there are a number of Mega Bloks elements that you can only approximate with LEGO elements. For example, Mega Bloks hinges rotate around the center of mass ...
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LEGO itself does not make specific firmware/software to support other devices other than the official NXT brick but...
...you can still use Arduino and Raspberry Pi (and more) with the NXT components including the NXT brick. Personally, I mix LEGO and electronics all the time.
Arduino & Raspberry Pi are flexible development platforms and they can ...
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In short, yes it's perfectly safe to run your old 9v motors from your Power Functions battery box.
This excellent online reference has a lot of information on various LEGO motors. Both the old 9v train motor and the Power Functions train motor are listed.
The information on the site shows that the characteristics of the two motors are very similar with the ...
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I think RC devices are not compatible with PF devices due using different IR protocols.
For instance, see this forum thread for more explanation. Also this cool site.
Summarizing,
RC and PF can use the same rails
RC and PF cannot use the same remote controllers
RC and PF uses different engines:
RC places it in bogie (as 9v do)
PF places it in body
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The best solution is to create custom LEGO-compatible bricks that your servos (or other parts) fit into. This can be done by:
modding existing bricks with knives, glue and other tools
building bricks from other material (wooden LEGO, formed with Fimo/Sculpey...)
building bricks with a 3D-printer (for instance see the LEGO category on thingiverse). There ...
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It is designed to handle curves that are found on CITY track. Here is the detail from middle car. There is tongue and groove that allows the middle wheels to slide left and right to enable curves. I will post a video of a powered train pushing it, if needed.
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It appears that the goal of the nanoblock producers is to make "the world’s smallest toy building blocks"1. And they appear to be too small to be compatible with lego. See the following video comparisons of the sizes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cobnr8fWTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXGP837-dU
1. http://www.mynanoblock.com/site/?page_id=2
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As oezi says, Bionicle elements are usually compatible with Technic connections only, but there are quite a lot of system bricks which have Technic connections as well.
As for what to do with Bionicle elements, only your own imagination can answer that. Once you've an idea about what a specific Bionicle element is going to represent in your creation, how to ...
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As far as I remember, the protocol LEGO uses is incompatible with standard IR protocols used in PCs (not even the same frequency, if I remember correctly).
The NQC FAQ has some more explanation on why it's not possible, but their short explanation says it all:
Quite simply, these protocols are incompatable. (sic)
You may have some success using a NXT ...
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In my opinion, LEGO must follow clone brands very closely, and this for a number of reasons.
The first, which is obvious and has already been mentioned, is that they want to protect their own intellectual property. As such, they'll want to take legal action as soon as possible when one of their trademarks/copyrights is infringed.
The second one is actually ...
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It's more or less obvious that tracks themselves are compatible, although blue rails won't go on dark gray sleepers, which isn't really a problem. You may want to use more sleepers under blue tracks to stabilise it, although the 12v inserts help. Mixing blue and grey track and inserts shouldn't be a problem, should you wish to do so.
Motors are also ...
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Depending on your rigidity requirements, I've found double-sided tape to work well.
It's cheap and found in many general goods store. The servo itself can be taped and supported on all four sides and/or the bottom to many types of lego brick surfaces.
You can also use double-side tape to mount a lego surface to a servo control horn. That provides nearly ...
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You could use any LEGO plates with the mega bloks figures. In the blind packs they stay on the mega bloks doublebricks, that are fully compatible with LEGO doublebricks. So you could take any set pack as you want. (some time ago i have used lego collectable minifigures stand with megabloks figures, it was usable, but i think they weren't standing too tight ...
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Mega blocks can stand on any Lego plate just as good as Lego figures. This is demonstrated in this battle scene between Lego and Mega Blocks figures:
mega bloks halo vs. lego star wars clones
Before you play this, I advice you to turn down the sound a bit...
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If you're just looking for some LEGO Bricks to build up a scene, then any of the standard LEGO sets or boxes of bricks would fit the figures - certainly the holes in the feet will fit the LEGO studs quite nicely, and the feet are spaced correctly to fit.
You could also take a look at the Marvel Super Hero range that LEGO offer which include a rather large ...
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Yes - I remember as a child, I built the USS Kittyhawk (a set that is an absolute nightmare to build with Mega Bloks) out of LEGO parts. All of the pieces, aside from the stickers, have either an exact or pretty close LEGO equivalent. You will also need to do the deck with plates instead of the large MegaBlok plates, but this allows for much more detail and ...
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The wheel used are smaller than regular train wheels and are usually never used in train sets; but more for smaller train-like stuff (Spider-Man metro, Indiana Jones mine cart, track buggy, track maintenance vehicles...)
So they will work on regular track, but their smaller size mean they're more likely to derail, and they have more friction around the axle ...
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