We’ve seen a lot of insanely great adult Lego projects over the years, but this one takes the cake. This full-size hot rod is the brainchild of Steve Sammartino, a young marketing guy from Melbourne, Australia and Raul Oaida, a 20-year old self-taught engineer from Romania that Sammartino met over the Internet. Money for their madcap project came from independent crowdfunding on Twitter. Oaida built the car in Romania and then shipped it to Sammartino in Australia. The car employs over 500,000 Lego components as well as a few non-Lego parts, like the tires and other load-bearing elements. The engine is powered by air and a pneumatic piston system comprised of four orbital engines employing a total of 256 pistons. It doesn’t go very fast (between 12-18 mph), and even the slightest bump could mean a very unique kind of accident that any Lego builder can vividly imagine. But you have to admit this pokey hot road earns major points badass point. You can find out more about the car and see more pics at the SuperAwesomeMicroProject page.
Send this to friendYour emailRecipient email Then these guys go ahead and make it even cooler by making full, life-size models out of Lego blocks. With Lego growing in popularity as it has since inception, and with technology and innovation increasing in leaps and bounds, full-size models have come out of the woodwork in recent days. Check out these coolest life-size Lego auto builds to date. Built specifically for the Ford Driving School at Legoland Florida, this Explorer is built completely out of Lego blocks. It sits at the entrance to Ford’s driving school for 6-12 year-olds. No, they aren’t learning to drive real cars. Just electric cars that max out at 3 miles per hour. The Explorer took 22 of Ford’s engineers 2,500 hours to build and used 380,000 blocks. Lego should really makes these kits easier for the kids. Unveiled at the New York Auto Show, the XC90 shown here is built for the driving school for kids at LegoLand California. This one is life-sized as well, and sits at the entrance as a symbol of both companies’ commitments to safety.
The most age-appropriate Lego build on the list is the Cars 2 replica of Lightning McQueen. Built by the master builders at Lego, McQueen took over 2,000 to build and uses 325,000 blocks. That’s a lot of plastic! Edging Lightning McQueen out solely on coolness factor, Ferrari’s Formula 1 replica actually has room for a “driver” to sit in the cockpit. The intricate details down to the complicated F1 steering wheel are all built out of Lego, as it the whole car minus the Pirelli tires. Ferrari’s actual F1 engineering team assembled the full-size life-like model on their own ahead of the 2011 F1 season opener in Melbourne as a promotion of their partnership with Shell. Here’s where the list gets more interesting… The Porsche and Lego teams got together to build this OPERATIONAL half-Lego, half-Porsche full-size car. Literally half the body of the 911 RSR LMP1 is built out of the plastic blocks, and the car actually drives. A driver wouldn’t boot it, though, as the rough edges of the Lego would tear up the tires, or the tires would tear down the car.
Not sure what would happen first. It took their engineers a combined 700 hours of assembly, and approximately 400,000 Lego blocks. This hotrod takes the title, due in part to the fully operational Lego engine, and also due to the builders being independent from large corporations. And they are kids. The car was built using funding from a Twitter plea by two friends who have sent a Lego rocket into orbit already. After fundraising, they used enormous cranial capacity to assemble four compressed air-powered rotary engines out of Lego, along with the slick-looking black and yellow hotrod chassis. The engine has 256 pistons that power the car to 17 miles per hour. It’s far from fast, but no one wants to risk destroying a masterpiece built out of Lego either. The car, called the Super Awesome Micro Project, is the winner of best Lego car build. June 15, 2015 at 1:09 pm by Bob Sorokanich | If you wanted to render a Porsche 911’s trademark curvy profile, you probably wouldn’t reach for a bucket of Lego, the most literally brick-shaped building tool on the market.
Apparently, all that means is that you lack the gumption of the Legonauts who built this amazingly detailed half-Lego Porsche 911 RSR, right down to the racing livery and sponsor decals. Spotted at Le Mans by Jalopnik’s Stef Schrader, the split Porsche is made of more than 380,000 Lego bricks, arranged like a topographical map to approximate the organic curves of the race-ready 911. Save for the headlight, taillight, rear spoiler support, and wheels, the entire right-hand side of the car is rendered in the little plastic cuboids—right down to the hood pins: Inside Porsche’s 2015 Le Mans–Winning 919 Hybrid Driving the Track-Only Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Porsche 911 News, Reviews, Photos, Buyer’s Guide, and More For more great photos of this phenomenal mashup of racing legend and favorite toy, check out Schrader’s full post over at Jalopnik. Maybe you’ll be inspired to build your own brick-based vehicle, like this guy and his life-size, air-powered Lego hot rod.
The jalopy of Half Life 2. Features drive, return to center steering and suspensions. I wanted for a while to build a RC car which was powerful, fun and reliable. I have started to build a 4×4 transmission on a little car like the Fiat Panda 4×4 but because of the friction of the drive-train, the car was not really powerful. I decided to create a propulsion car with the return to center steering and based on the Lancia Montecarlo but again it was a fail because of the design. The scale was too small to manage enough detail, consequently, it was ugly. I was not able to increase the scale because I wanted a powerful car so the lightest car as possible. Therefore, I have searched a way to manage the problem of power and design links to the scale and have found thanks to the half life 2 game : the jalopy. In deed, the jalopy has not a complete bodywork, which permits me to obtain a nice design without overload even through the small scale. Also I have placed a RC motor on the rear axle in order to obtain enough power and have placed laterally the steering motor with 12/12 bevel gear which makes possible the building of a complete system of suspension.
Consequently, the front axle has independent suspensions with double wishbones system which comes from the Rebel Wrecker. Concerning the rear suspension, the motor is attached to the double swinging arm with the shock absorbers on the left side. The main difficulty was to build around the battery box. In deed, the battery box had to be placed on the center of the car for weigh repartition and it had not compromise the design of the interior. I have solved the problem by using the battery box as a part of the frame : it contributes to the stiffness of the frame. To finish with the return to center steering, I use a modified version of Sheepo’s RTC steering which is very reliable and reactive. Conbining to the power of the RC motor and the fun of the suspensions : the jalopy is a fun RC lego car. I have made the building instructions, you can watch them by browsing the blog or Want to check before if you can build the HL2 Charger ? , the website which matchs your parts with mocs !