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Interested in building techniques? Then this is the tag for you.
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Strongest Vertical LEGO beam
Depends very much what you mean by "strong".
Vertical crush resistance would be highest as the Lego house people did it because that gives a continuous vertical wall down the edge of each stack of br …
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Any way to make this setup "tighter"?
Pre-tensioning or pre-loading, the way that most CNC machines work. In essence this means a constant force pushing one way, so that the slop doesn't matter. Often you can do this with gravity, and if …
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How do you plan large structures for easy and safe transport to shows?
The way Lego does :)
A useful variation on Ambo100's folding building that I've seen once, was an invertable building. …
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What would be a simple trebuchet design at the Minifigure scale?
There are a number of designs on the net that I found with a simple search. Google image search produces images from the merely functional ones like the instructions linked here through to quite reali …
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Suspension bridge building techniques
A team in Perth (Australia) built a pure Lego suspension bridge that is quite long. All the links I can find are to youtube videos which is not very useful (here and here, for example).
This media st …
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Lego Motor for cycling a tool
If you don't need constant speed motion a better idea would be to use a crank running from any modern motor (ie, geared down internally). That way you can guarantee the end points. For a 240° rotation …
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How to speed up assembly for big LEGO technic sets (e.g. 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs)
If you have an idea of what you're building you can often do things like making two mirrored sub-assemblies at the same time. But be careful, as you can easily end up building the wrong thing. … A towel is not a bad estimate of the space required for building something like the Arocs. …
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How do you construct odd-angles on buildings
If you're building a brick or stonework wall using a lot of 1x2 tiles with 1x1 tiles as the endworks can be very effective, especially if you mix the various shades of grey. …
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