Istruzioni lego LegoSet legoCreazioni con i legoCittà di legoCostruzione legoAmici legoCastello di legoMobili in legoAuto legoCasa in legoStar wars legoBatman LegoStar Wars Mini - Mini TIE-Fighter [Lego 8028]Alanyuppie's LEGO Transformers: Neo Optimus Prime LEGO InstructionsLEGO Star Wars Toys R Us X-Wing Fighter | by tormentalouspin 1lego instructions robot - Google Searchpin 8heart 2lego instructions | Sorry, no PDF Instructions available for downloadpin 24heart 1Custom Santa ClausInstrucciones de carro legopin 1crocodile_instructions_2of3.pngCity - Trail Ranger [Lego 6514]crocodile_instructions_1of3.pngpin 5The latest addition to the particle physics brick detector universe is a micro-scale model of the Large Hadron Collider, and its four main detectors, done by Nathan Readioff, a PhD student at the University of Liverpool. Each detector model fits into the palm of your hand and yet features essentially all the main components of the experiment. The entire LHC is built from a total of 371 standard Lego pieces and each model can be put together in less than ten minutes, even by non-physicists 😉
Each model took Nathan around 40 hours to design, including the initial assembly in computer using Lego Digital Designer as well as several iterations with physics bricks. It was important to ensure that the models had a robust construction and could survive repeated handling, but sometimes the computer would glitch and allow parts to fit together in ways that would be impossible in real life. The unique features of each detector meant that each model posed a fresh challenge. CMS was by far the easiest to design since it is effectively a series of cylindrical layers – in fact the model virtually built itself. The ALICE detector features a distinctive set of muon chambers although the dipole magnet coil next to them was far too complex to be accurately reproduced at this scale. The toroid magnet coils of ATLAS were almost impossible to assemble but it turned out that stackable minifigure binoculars were the solution – even so it was a tight squeeze to add everything in.
LHCb was by far the most difficult of the four models, since it is completely different from the other detectors. Its characteristic magnet coils took over a month and around fifty different designs before the final one was found – this one small section is the part Nathan is most proud of. Nathan’s models finally reach the critical mass and got 10k supporter in the Lego Ideas campaign. Now it’s up to LEGO to make up their minds!! Thanks to of you supporting the project over the past few months! If you simply cannot wait that long you can order the pieces e.g. via the Lego customer service or at Bricklink. Construction manuals along with a short description of each experiment as well as 3D model files can downloaded here. To find out which pieces you need to build these models, check out the parts lists. Remember to like us on Facebook and/or Google+, and follow us on YouTube. Want to learn more about CERN and the LHC? Check out the following links:
Because, seriously, who doesn’t need their own small medicine ball-sized Death Star? That is what I was both a little apprehensive and excited to receive the just-released Lego Technic 42056 Porsche 911 GT3 RS kit that the company developed in conjunction with Porsche. Apprehensive because the kit contains 2,704 pieces, and that a mischievous toddler lives in my house. Excited because it had been a long while since I built a Lego kit, and I was interested to see if building this Technic kit would teach me something—about Lego, cars, or engineering. The Lego Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS kit comes in an impressive box, so you know you’re in for something special. When you open the lid, the first thing you see is the instruction manual with the Porsche crest on the cover. Then you take out the manual…and find it’s 578-pages long. OK, this is probably going to take some time, especially if you haven’t built a Technic model before. To help set the mood, and ease you into it—and to try and make you forget about the considerable heft of the instructions—the first section chronicles the history of Porsche, and parallels both the actual “991” GT3 RS development with the Lego version which happened at the same time.
There are four smaller sub-boxes of parts in the kit, each pertaining to a different chapter in the manual, and roughly corresponding to how Porsche might build the actual car. For example, start with the drivetrain, build the chassis, then marry the two together, just like the factory does it. Next comes the frame, and then body. There are a total of 856 steps in the instruction manual, and by my (very patient) wife’s account, I expended several hours of effort on just the first sub-box. I did say this was Lego’s “advanced” line, didn’t I? No bones about it, this kit was an immense challenge for me, not just by its size, but also because of its intricacy. But, as the hours…and days…wore on, and more and more of the pieces interlocked, a car began to take shape, albeit very slowly. If you’re new to Technic, there are some different pieces than regular Lego kits, but if you take your time, and work over a preferably clean neutral background, you’ll be fine.
You’ll probably still be as exhausted as I was when I installed the last piece: Step 856: insert a snazzy piece of Lego luggage into the trunk of the Lego Porsche. Anyway, I finally built a car that was almost 24 inches long and detailed with opening doors, engine lid, “frunk,” plus working technical functions like suspension, steering, and a working flappy–paddle gearbox. It’s all pretty impressive, actually. The car is one of the most complex devices a person can own, yet many of us just take for granted that our cars just “work” they way they do. When we turn the key, we tend to forget that an immense amount of thought, and mechanical know-how went into making them the way they are. Where an actual car’s systems might be somewhat unfathomable, its inner workings encased in metal, unknowable unless you take it apart, you can see all the goings-on in the Lego version. Turn a wheel and see all the gears turn. The same holds true with the steering: the action of turning the wheel turns a shaft attached to a gear that acts on a rack so that the wheels turn.
The result is that while while Technic’s engineering is a more simple abstraction than of an actual automobile, through building this 2,704-piece behemoth I now have a better understanding for the engineering that goes into a car I can drive. That makes building a Technic kit worth considering for any automobile enthusiast. I dare say that if you can complete this kit, you shouldn’t discount yourself from taking on other challenges…such as building an actual engine, or even a whole car. Thank you to Lego for sending Petrolicious an early copy of this set to review. This 23 Window VW Bus Is A Perfectly Preserved Time Capsule The BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé Is A Work Of Art 7 Singers In One Place Is Almost More Than We Can Handle These LEGO Porsche Models Are The Most Accurate We’ve Ever Seen The Porsche 911 Was Not Designed Around Its Rear Engine If You Can't Afford Your Own Race Team, Build It! The Designer's Story: Albrecht Goertz