Big GBC display at Cavallino 2012

This very big GBC display features lots of well known modules, and the new additions were just great!!

The Unofficial LEGO ® Technic Builder’s Guide.

You can pre-order the Book about LEGO TECHNIC from Sariel !!

From Sariel's website:

"I’m happy to announce that this year (Fall 2012) you will be able to buy my book: TheUnofficial LEGO ® Technic Builder’s Guide. The book, published by No Starch Press, focuses on explaining the theory and principles that rule the world of LEGO mechanisms, while providing plenty of practical examples. With over 300 pages printed in full color, showing more than 500 figures and 40 building instructions, the book should be helpful to any LEGO Technic enthusiast, regardless of his building skills.
While the book uses vehicular LEGO models as primary examples, the theoretical knowledge and working principles it describes can be applied to any sort of mechanism. The 20 chapters start simple for first-time builders, but quickly move to advanced material. The book covers subjects like:
gear wheels and gear ratios
levers and linkages
pneumatics and custom pneumatic devices
LEGO motors and their characteristics
suspension and transmission systems
the modern LEGO Power Functions system and its elements
reinforcing your builds
studfull system vs. studless system
methods of scaling and modeling of various vehicles, from bikes to helicopters and airplanes, including challenges and opportunities that come with different types of vehicles
What the book does not include are complete instructions for any models that I have built. Instead, it introduces you to a vast array of mechanisms and provides examples of how to use them in your own constructions.
Eric Albrecht (Blakbird), the world-renowned collector and expert on LEGO Technic, has provided technical review of the book, and it comes with a foreword by Fernando Correia, the TechnicBRICKs editor-in-chief.
Visit nostarch.com/technicbuilder to learn more. The book is available for pre-order worldwide from your favorite booksellers, including amazon.com and amazon.co.uk
The book will also be available as an ebook."

Personally I'm very interested in this book and I have high expectations in its content because I'm working in two related projects, one the beginners Technic guide in Hispalug (actually abandoned...) and the other a private project consisting of three LEGO construction manuals, the last of them will be focused on advanced Lego Technic ^_^

The LEGO TECHNIC IDEA BOOKS

Almost two months ago David Luders bumped this thread at Eurobricks.

In it there's a priceless links to the four existing Technic Idea Books, released between 1980 and 1991 in PDF format.

"Flip through the pages to reminisce about your youth, or make some MODERN, STUDLESS versions of the various studded creations shown.... "

The links:

Lego Technic 8888 Idea Book (Expert Builder) from 1980 (100 pages, 9.5 MB PDF document)

Lego Technic 8889 Idea Book from 1984 (116 pages, 23.8 MB PDF document)

Lego Technic 8890 Idea Book from 1988 (52 pages, 4 MB PDF document)

Lego Technic 8891 Idea Book from 1991 (100 pages, 14 MB PDF document) 

I would like to thank David for his invaluable work sharing Lego Technic news, information and resources all this years. All the Technic fans, we were very grateful.

Little bits of bots

As frequently occurs in this blog this is not a new moc collection, but it's very remarkable.

The bots from Fazoom. Inspired ted @ndes to build this creations:

This is Clyde Clunk-bot:

Here Lil' Red & MC-Bebox Rap-botz 

And the complete family: 

Excellent creations from ted @ndes' photostream

Btw a link to this previously featured creations that were so similar to these ones: Robodog and Pistonhands by Pabloglez

Concave belt module

This is the latest Lego GBC module from Team Morente, I'm sure that it will look better after adding the decoration, at this moment the construction and the mechanisms look so fine, with the route that the gbc balls do ant the "concave" curvature of the belt in the elevation section.

The Lego Technic Room

Sometimes I see things that make me think that my technic collection is really smal...