Extensive review of the LEGO Technic 9398 4x4 Crawler

After the new Lego Power functions elements review Sariel show how these elements work in (for the moment) the unique set where they come, the LEGO Technic 9398 4x4 Crawler.

In this review we will find the box art, time-lapse build, model functionalities, crawling abilities comparative, how it work with other wheels, and a wild engineer hamster...

9398 Lego Technic crawler review from SETECHNIC

The friends from SETECHNIC  have presented the review of the 9398 crawler 

Folow the link to read it in their website, or watch it in movement here in the video:

The new Power Functions elements reviewed by Sariel and LasseDeleuran

All the new Power Functions goodies from the 9398 Crawler nicely reviewed in this video by Sariel, it helps a lot to figure what possibilities these new elements have.

Also there's another interesting review by LasseDeleuran with nice speeds comparative.

The new receiver, the IR V2 is a good new, now it seems that we can ad motors to the receiver without break it like in the first version of it.

The servo is quite interesting, like nxt motors but controlled with both remote controllers (classic PF and trains PF) and with the battery box, nice for steering (of course) and other devices like valves, GBC modules, control pneumatic stuff, technic "sculptures", Victorian machines...

And the "L" motor seems stronger than the "M" but not as destructive as the XL, known as the "pin bender" 

Can't wait to have one 9398 crawler set in my hands.

Nico71's mechanical loom at Fanabriques 2012

Perfectly recreated loom machine, for sure this will be hard to build and harder to adjust...

From the video description:

"One year of development, weawing machine based on mechanical movement, only one motor ! Displayed at Internationnal lego exhibition Fanabriques 2012 at Rosheim the 29, 30 june of 2012. During 2 days : 30cm lengh of woven material for 70m of raw string !"

I also love the 3 digit-counter and I don't know what exactly the thing near it is..

The full LEGO Turing Machine Comes True

As Teuk comment in the previous Nxt turing machine post there's a video of a fully mechanical Turing machine made by SeTechnic member Phi with fellow students.

"At the occasion of Alan Turing's centenary, Masters students in fundamental computer sciences of the "Ecole Normale Supérieure", located in Lyon (France), pay homage to him through the building of a Turing machine in Lego."

This "pneumatic" turing machine really stunned me as the Lego digicomp did some years ago.

The Turing Machine Comes True por CNRS

My congratulations for the team! If you are able to  read French (or use google translate) and liked this superb machine is a must read the thread of the creation of this machine in the Setechnic forum

BrickWorld 2012 GBC Layout explained

Nothing is better than a great Lego GBC layout explained by their creators.

Some new concepts here, like the water-carbon cycle GBC, introducing the learning through gbc module idea!

Enjoy all kinds of modules form the simplest to the biggest and most complex explained by the authors: