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Motorizing the LEGO 8070 Supercar
This particular model is not a recent model. It was released in 2011 and comes with a battery box, a motor, and a gearbox to control several functions – rear spoiler, lifting the hood, and opening the left and right … Continue reading
Motorizing the LEGO 42126 Ford F-150 Raptor
This LEGO Technic set came about 6 months ago. Although I ordered it much earlier in the year, the 2021 shipping problems of FedEx caused a lot of shipments to be delayed by months. This was one of the bigger … Continue reading
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Motorizing the Lego Technic 42075 First Responder, Part 3
In Part 1 of the series, I used the EV3 brick and motors to motorize the Lego Technic 42075 retail set. While very flexible in programming and remote controlling the vehicle, the EV3 brick takes up the whole truck bed … Continue reading
Motorizing the Lego Technic 42075 First Responder, Part 2
After my work of motorizing the Lego 42075 with an EV3 brick and EV3 motors, I searched and found similar work with motorizing the same retail set, but using the smaller brick and motors from Lego Power Functions; link here. … Continue reading
Motorizing the Lego Technic 42075 First Responder
I’m finally getting around to writing about my experience in motorizing the Lego Technic 42075 First Responder. This is a truck-like vehicle, similar in form to the Lego Technic 8081 Extreme Cruiser, but on a smaller scale. I’ve previously put … Continue reading
Remote Controlled EV3 Robot with Dual Gyro Sensors
I’m in the middle of another project involving the LEGO EV3 system. My 11-year old has been making some inquiries about the gyro sensor that came with the EV3 Education kit. To make the lesson more interesting, I wrote a … Continue reading
Putting an EV3 into a Lego Technic Cruiser, Part 2
Continuing from my previous post, I was ready to put in a second EV3 motor and drive train for the rear wheels of the cruiser. The Mindstorms EV3 retail set comes with two large motors and one medium motor. Conventionally, … Continue reading
Putting an EV3 into a Lego Technic Cruiser
This is the first of few posts about my project in getting an EV3 brick into one of the Lego Technic retail sets. I’ve always had a Lego Mindstorms robot kit ever since Lego came out with the NXT. Though … Continue reading
Getting the kid started with Lego Technic and Mindstorms
Last summer, I started to teach my kid about building with Lego Technic, particularly using the EV3 Mindstorms set. Though she had been building with non-technic Lego bricks for years now, the Technic pieces involve a different mindset, dealing more … Continue reading