My Game Of Bricks T-Shirt is now on sale at TeeFury. It is an excellent mashup between LEGO Classic Castle and Game Of Thrones. It is $15 during the first week and $20 after that. So get your t-shirt now!
Tag: lego
The United Colors Of The Brick
A t-shirt design that combines the LEGO color palette with the iconic design of Benetton.
Looks like I am in the t-shirt design fever. Here is my latest creation: The United Colors Of The Brick. Please vote for it so that it does get printed. This design is a homage to Benetton and the LEGO Color Palette.
UPDATE: The shirt is now available from Threadless.
The curious case of LEGO colors
This post explores the difficulty of defining the exact LEGO color palette. I discuss the various lists, conversions and color systems.
UPDATE: My new book entitled “The Unofficial LEGO Color Guide” is now available. Here is a short video introduction:
LEGO’s color’s palette continues to be mystery to LEGO fans. The Bricks Magazine (#14) dedicated several articles to the topic and several AFOLs had a go at cataloging and understanding the LEGO color spectrum. New Elementary wrote a good post and several collectors attempted to find at least one brick of every LEGO color (Ryan Howerter, Jeremy Moody). LEGO itself seemed to have published its palette in 2010 and 2016. The LEGO Digital Designer also comes with its own color palette:
When you play the game of bricks, you win or you die!
The is my t-shirt design that combines LEGO Classic Castle with Game of Thrones.
Yellow Buggy – A tiny and robust RC LEGO car
This is a very small, robust, reliable and easy to maintain buggy. It is ideal for letting your kids play with all day. The design goal was to make a robust car as small and simple as possible. This means most of all no suspension system since that would require the use of CV joints. They are known to break and while they work nicely in LEGO super cars that you carefully push around the floor, it does not work with kids trying to race and crash their RC cars. CV joints will break. Of course it is possible to create a LEGO RC car with suspension and even four wheel drive/steering, but then you end up with LEGO’s own RC Crawler. The goal was to keep it small, simple and robust.
One of the problems I encountered when letting kids play with the RC cars all day is that the axles in the differential tend to slip and move out. I hence build a differential assembly in which the axles are completely locked in and cannot move. The worst thing that could still happen is that a wheel comes off which is easy to fix.
The car uses only one L-Motor and is pretty fast for that. The turning radius is very tight and the car is just fun to drive. The differential makes it perfect to drive around tight corners. The heavy battery pack is right on top of the back axle, giving it the best friction. Well, it does not accelerate like an F1, but it might still make a small difference.
The Building Instructions do not contain the L-Motor and the servo motor since they are both not yet part of Digital Designer. The Yellow Buggy is also available as a 3D file (LXF) for LEGO Digital Designer. Head over to Rebrickable for the Yellow Buggy MOC and its part list.
I also ran Bluerender to make a nice 3D spin of the car.