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:

LEGO Turing Machine

Interesting machine, the mother of all the computers we know today:

LEGO Turing Machine from ecalpemos on Vimeo.


"This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI's exposition "Turings Erfenis" in honor of Alan Turings one hundredth birthday this year.

Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who helped define the theoretical model of the computer as we know it today. He was a visionary, one of the few people of his time who recognized the role the computer would play for humanity.

The Turing Machine (1936) is an adequate model of a computer. It can do anything the computers of today or tomorrow can do."

This LEGO Turing machine uses a tape based on a classic interpretation of computer memory: switches. Additionally, it uses a light sensor to determine the value of a switch: if the switch is on, the sensor will  see  the black colour of the switch's surface. But if it is turned off, the sensor will  see  the white colour of the LEGO beam, making it possible to distinguish between the states. Finally, a rotating beam mounted above the tape can flip the switch in both directions.

Alan Turing's original model has an infinite tape, but LEGO had a slight problem supplying infinite bricks. So we chose to fix our tape size to 32 positions.

Via: legoturingmachine.org

Lego Technic SKY RESORT (for technic figures)

This is the sky paradise for technic figures!!

Welcome to the Tailgunner Lego Technic SKI RESORT!! An amazing place to hang out with your arctic technic friends!

All the excellent photo gallery

This resort has everything that a technic figure might want:

-24 chairs ski-lift

-18 T-bars ski-lift

- snow-park

- snowmobile

- PF snowgroomer

- 4 snow cannons

- giant slalom track

-Technic skiers!

Better seing it in movement all the realistic mechanisms of the different lifts:

More videos in the Tailgunner088's youtube channel

Let's go for a ride!!