Speeding race car

This is a race car that I built all by myself. It rolls extremely fast and smooth. It is even faster than my previous fastest car, REX'S X1 SPEED ATACK, built in May 2013. The speed can be attributed to the way the axles connect with the car.

drawing shapes

Today I practiced drawing 3-dimensional shapes like cubes and cylinders. We made a LEGO donkey lay figure with lots of 3-dimensional parts.  Drawing a figure can be much harder than building one. When you draw an oval it's important to observe the lines ruling the drawing.

Light spinner

IMG 7272 https://vimeo.com/88134440

My new lego creation has a type of rotating structure on top that connects to its motor.  The motor also connects to the front wheels driving the vehicle.  This is accomplished by a long driveshaft. There are 3 LEDs at the tips of the rotating structure.  If the LEDs had been connected to the main battery cell (that powers the motor), then the cables would've been entangled, stopping the vehicle. Therefore the rotating structure has its own battery cell, supplying electricity to the lights.

 
                                         

Darth Malgus' meditation cube

When he wants to focus his mind Darth Malgus retreats to his meditation cube orbiting Korriban.  Because there is no gravity inside his cube, Darth Malgus is able to float while meditating!  

The construction of the cube involved six 16 x 16 square elements that are 

connected by a set of hinges.

phantasy planet

Yesterday we constructed a model planet that is also a night lamp.

The axis of my planet is tilted approximately by 40 degrees. 

Materials used:

- wooden block and stick,

- clear plastic sheets… folded into segments,

- translucent vellum paper… folded into similar segments,

- metal beads,

- red polyester thread,

- lego power functions battery cell and LEDs,

- coloured markers and window paint

T-7 Shuttle

On the 2nd of January 2014, my dad and I built a shuttle that I called the T-7 shuttle. Although it is named after the LEGO Star Wars T-6 Shuttle the design is quite different. My ship has a hatch that you can open, and so peek inside through the back. If you want to compare my design with the T-6 shuttle, the crucial thing is the amount of space inside: the T-7 can transport loads of people or cargo.

microscope photos

These are some of my microscope photos from yesterday's post.

It appears that a leaf is made up of segments. And in this case some parts are
still yellow and the other parts have turned brown.

moss...                                

 pear stem (2mm wide)

page from a book...      

i-Pad microscope

We created a simple microscope out of LEGO and an i-Pad.

Then we assembled several samples to observe them through

our microscope. For most of the samples we shone light through, to

discover what they look like. 

The most amazing results were obtained with a pear stem, a printed paper,

some moss fresh off the soccer field (....yuummmie!) and a leaf.

I will post the photos tomorrow.

NN-Droid-S4 Starfighter

I built a new phantasy ship for a commando droid.  The hatch for the cockpit is at the bottom, which is unusual.  The ship has 4 flick missiles mounted on the wings. We took the ship apart to rebuild it for a stop motion film... Enjoy!

IMG 6936 https://vimeo.com/80195925

...and check out some of my other stop motion fun!!

leaf animals

Yesterday, I made close up photos of leaves. Later, I practised drawing animals that are featured in an app called Pony Trails. In GraphicConverter we merged the photos with the drawings, using operations like "invert", "lasso", "colour rotation" and "invert selection".  "Enjoy"!

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ENIGMATIC SYSTEM

We created a picture of a fantasy solar system. We had the help of a LEGO drawing machine that I described in an earlier post. We used a stylus with 2 cylinders, one containing the tip of a marker, the other containing a magnet. Our stylus was dragged (round and round) by another magnet that was installed to the machine underneath the glass table. We applied water colour to the almost finished drawing. In graphicConverter we inverted the colours and added a sun, which I named ENLETELES.

H2 Commando Craft

Recently I designed this H2CC, with Commando Droids in mind. This craft is piloted by such a droid, tasked with deploying separatist equipment to an ocean planet (like Kamino).  The cockpit of the H2CC is special: no other ship has 3 cockpit windows.  What's more, they are spherical.

The craft is also special because of its wings… shaped like floats on a float plane.  Of course, if a ship like this touched down on Kamino it would be blasted plain jane out of the water!  Excuse me, that was my BX series remote control vehicle systems communication aaaaaah…

Kashyyyk teaser....

We decided to make a "Battle of Kashyyyk" fantasy set. 

The first  step was to make a draft of a treehouse on my chalkboard. 

We had so many brown pieces, it was easy to build. We used string to stabilize the structure. We had to drill into a few bricks to stick axles through them. That was fun.

This photo shows our project in front of two treehouses that we made about two years ago.

Joker cards....

In March 2012 I created a Star Wars board game called CHASE THROUGH HYPERSPACE (you can check it out here).  Yesterday I made 3 joker cards for my game!

One side of the cards shows a character and its strength, the other side features a funny rhyme that we created for it.  

Obi-Van Kenobi and Kit Fisto are the strongest characters, with 25 steps each....
Until yesterday the strongest cards were Captain Rex (21 steps) and Sidious (20 steps).