Partially LEGO Full Auto Book Scanner

A scientist's toy box has developed this scanning machine for books with Lego pieces, a control center II unit, a scanner and a laptop. It's impressive that this creation is from the year 2006!

"Once started, the machine opens the each page of the book and scans the content. The whole process is automatic.
The lesson of this story is that LEGO is great."

The Shuttle/The Glider The Balance Controller Computer Scanner Rack Printer

How it works:

• The Glider is wound up, The Shuttle is at the right position.
• The Shuttle moves to the left.
• The Glider winds down until it touches the book.
• The Shuttles moves to the right. The Glider, touching the book, filps the page.
• The Glider winds up.
• The Balance is lift up. The computer detects the event and sends message to the scanner.
• The machiene pauses for 35 seconds, while the scannaer is working.
• The Balance lifts down.
• Repeat.

Want to build it?

Detailed explanations, building instructions and more in the author's Webpage

1. The Shuttle/The Glider
2. The Balance
3. Controller
4. Computer
5. Scanner
6. Rack
7. Printer

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.