Lego Technic Bricks

Would it be possible to build a functional bridge with Lego Bricks? ?

Assuming you could still build a base similar to a metal (etc) but the bridge with Lego replacing the metal. unlimited budget / quantity of bricks. You can use any type of lego bricks, lego, etc only official technical matter, but for the bridge itself. By "functional" take the weight of the car or two …

possible

8 Used Lego 1 x 2 White Technic Bricks With Axle Hole $2.76

Missing Lego Brick x1951 Technic Bionicle Piraka Clawed $1.71

Lot Lego Technic Blue Brick Arm Pin Axle Gear Part Wheel NXT Mindstorm Robot LB $19.95

Lot Lego Tan Technic Brick Plate Pin Axle Gear Part NXT MINDSTORM ROBOT LB $21.95

Lot Lego Black Technic Brick Plate Pin Arm Axle Gear Part NXT MINDSTORM ROBOT LB $19.95

LEGO 32064 Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Axlehole BLACK x 6 $1.56

LEGO 32000 Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Holes BLACK x 6 $1.56

LEGO 3700 Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Hole DK STONE x 10 $1.56

JOBLOT OVER 350 Mixed Lego TECHNIC BRICKS, WHEELS, CONNECTORS, RODS, LARGE ETC $3.19

Lego Legos 6 NEW 1 Hole 1x1Technic Bricks BROWN $2.50

LEGO LEGOS 6 NEW 1 Hole 1×1 Technic Bricks YELLOW $2.50

Missing Lego Brick 32140 Tan Technic Beam 2 x 4 Liftarm Bent 90 $1.71

Lego Lot of 100 pcs Bricks, Technic, and misc. $6.15

Lego Orange Brick Separator with Technic Piece Remover $0.99

New LEGO 4 Yellow 1×2 Technic Bricks with 2 Holes $1.25

Lot Lego Technic Brown Tan Brick Arm Pin Axle Gear Part NXT MINDSTORM STAR LBS $14.95

LeGo 20x White Technic Brick 1 x 2 w/ Hole NEW $1.21

LEGO Orange Brick and Axel SEPARATOR Technic Pin Pusher Seperator $3.99

Lot Lego Technic Blue Brick Arm Pin Axle Gear Part Wheel NXT MINDSTORM CAR LBS $21.95

x10 Lego Technic Nxt Brick White 1 x 2 with Axle Hole Brick 10129 7194 4645 9748 $1.97

x10 Lego Technic NXT Brick Red 1 x 2 with Axle Hole Brick 4483 10197 7153 10222 $2.47

lego technic bricks yellow various sizes. $3.99

Lego Technic – Red – Studless Beams Liftarms Bricks – Selection 173 Parts – NEW $31.42

Lego Technic – Dark Grey Studless Beam Liftarm Brick – Selection 150 Parts – NEW $47.13

Lego Technic – Black Studless Beams Liftarms Bricks – Selection 210 Parts – NEW $47.13

Lego 205+ Specialty Bricks technic slope block rocket 1×16 beam space Star Wars $9.99

LEGO lot of 100 pcs Bricks, Technic, and misc. $6.15

Missing Lego Brick 3702 x 8 Technic Brick 1 x 8 Yellow $2.34

160 Lego Blocks Space Bricks 1×16 Liftarm Technic Arches Castle 6×24 Base Plate $14.99

Missing Lego Brick 75535 Teal Technic Pin Joiner Round $1.71

Lego 200+ specialty bricks technic slope block 1×16 gear beams Space Star wars $7.99

10x Light Bluish Grey LEGO Technic 1×2 Brick with Hole (3700) – New $1.89

10x Dark Bluish Grey LEGO Technic 1×2 Brick with Hole (3700) – New $1.89

Missing Lego Brick 4265c x 12 Technic Bush 0.5 Smooth $1.71

Lego 200+ specialty bricks Technic slope blocks arches windows Space Star Wars $5.99

Lego 220+ specialty bricks circle blocks 2×16 base plate 1×16 beam 1×11 Technic $9.99

Lego 1 Black Technic Brick 2×3 w/Socket & Half Ball $1.00

Lego Mindstorms Technic 30 Grey 2 x 4 Bricks $4.99

Missing Lego Brick 41678 x 2 MdStone Technic Axle Joine $1.71

2-pc LEGO Technic Dark Gray 2×3 Rotation Ball Joint SOCKET Hinge Axle BRICK Pack $4.69

20 Used Lego 1 x 1 Black Technic Bricks With Hole $4.21

LEGO Lot NEW SEALED BAG Parts Pieces Bricks Minifigs Star Wars Town City Technic $13.99

LEGO Lot NEW SEALED BAG Parts Pieces Bricks Minifigs Star Wars Town City Technic $13.99

LEGO Lot NEW SEALED BAG Parts Pieces Bricks Minifigs Star Wars Town City Technic $13.99

LEGO Lot NEW SEALED BAG Parts Pieces Bricks Minifigs Star Wars Town City Technic $13.99

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Gaming – A Short History

From its humble yet exciting beginnings in the early 1980’s through to today’s state of the art consoles the Video Game industry has progressed exponentially and will continue to do so.

In the 1980’s Sinclair and Commodore were the pioneers of the games industry. It was necessary to spend countless hours typing in Basic code out of a magazine to enable a low resolution blob to move around the screen one agonising square after another. Then games started coming on audio cassette tapes. You had to connect your cassette recorder to your computer via a flimsy connector. Also the memory pack was loosely connected to the computer. One gentle breeze in the wrong direction would break the contact and you’d lose everything. You’d spend 20 minutes loading a game into the thing only for the dreaded ‘Syntax Error’ to appear and you’d have to start again. Everything was so slow, so laborious and so delicate yet WE LOVED IT!

We didn’t care that our computers looked like pieces of cheese. We didn’t care that you had to push hard on a lifeless, dead skin type of keyboard for it to register. We even didn’t care that all of the games we played looked like they were made out of LEGO bricks. We were making our own games and that was amazing.

These monsters of computer gaming were soon outdated by far superior models featuring sound, more colours and even a built in cassette recorder! Some even had 64K of RAM. Next came computers with joysticks and some even had disk drives for faster loading times. This also led the way for bigger, better games. The games for these computers were, by comparison, massive improvements in graphic appearance and sound yet they still had loads of playability.

Then the console wars began. Home computers were about to die and be replaced by pure gaming machines. Nintendo and Sega were to introduce various incarnations with ever increasing technical specs. Nintendo were to win the war long term but they didn’t always have it their own way. A couple of bad decisions by Sega and perhaps some over ambitious ideas led to their eventual exit from the console market. A real shame in my opinion as their last console, the Dreamcast, was an excellent machine with some visionary stuff included.

A new contender was to enter the massive console market and was about to change things forever. Sony introduced their Playstation. A CD based console with amazing graphics, a great controller and an excellent library of games which blew the competitors away. This console was to dominate the market until a new contender was released, the Playstation 2! The PS2 (as it was called) featured a DVD drive which increased the capacity of the media games could be stored on thus increasing the size and complexity of games.

Shortly after this, yet another new competitor entered the market. Microsoft launched their Xbox to the world and, after a slow start, proceeded to do very well.

This leads me onto today’s consoles. The market today is dominated by three manufacturers: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Consoles today are more powerful and advanced than anybody could have dreamed of back in the day of the ZX81 and BBC Micro.

Today gaming has been focused on the multiplayer aspects and in particular, online multiplayer. The ability to connect with people all over the world and play games with them as though they are in the same room as you has liberated the games industry but has also brought with it a new set of issues and dangers.

But what of the future? Well, the possibilities are endless. The technology involved is evolving and developing quicker than ever. The only limit will eventually be our imagination. Exciting times!

Trevor Mayhew

 

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