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Great stuff, Blakbird! Thank you very much for your excellent & detailed work.

Fantastic!! One of my all-time favourite cars.

A true classic, what a masterpiece. And a bit of nostalgia too, I have traveled thousands of miles on 101's back seats.

Great stuff, love how easily interchangeable the "levels" are!

Not at all pure LEGO, but after a while I gave up trying to emulate a real sewing machine mechanism, and just went "embellishing" a real machine. Therefore, this is more of an "NXT-assisted" embroidery, than a pure solution. It's still a rather rough prototype, but it has proven the concept as worth the R&D. The X-Y fabric movements are simple - I've had much more trouble motorizing the handwheel (absolutely no grip, and occasionally huge torque required). Needle movements are imported from a program EmbroiderModder. Finally, some embroidered Classic Space, Technic and NXT logos for my bags and blank baseball caps :). A bit of extra text is here, and a YouTube video . Result that came out of the prototype after about 30 minutes of work... (the rusty old look is intentional - it can be avoided by using top and bottom threads of identical colours, rather than white & brown).

At risk of enraging many, I don't see plenty of need for new parts (apart from occasional PF additions, wheels, or variations of LA's, pneumatics, telescopic joints, etc.). Basic structural Technic parts are currently sufficient for almost anything, as evident from official sets and many insanely great MOC's (and new coming up all the time ). Whereas, expanding the palette into other, over-specialized parts somehow defeats the idea of Technic ― at least for me. If a mechanism can't possibly be built on a reasonable scale with existing parts, the be it, rather than introducing new dedicated parts that are difficult to use beyond their one main purpose. E.g. portal hubs were a slight disappointment for me in that respect.

8 XL motors - that sums up to 4.4 A electric current, almost 18 W of mechanical power, and over 1 Nm torque. Wow!

Masterful. I'd hardly believe so many functions could fit underneath that bodywork. Love the detail of using a yellow half-pin on the sides behind the front wheels, where the Ferraris have a "shield" logo.

Mindstorms 2.0, which I bought few years ago to set up a simple automatic photography robot. A few months later, having bought a 8053 crane for curiosity, to see what is like to work with studless Technic, Dark Ages were safely behind.

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Undoubtedly, this mis-proportioned, undriveable, dysfunctional, ugly excuse for a sport convertible. Great thread, by the way! :)

I understand the point, but tend to agree with Sariel. This great book (which rests under my elbow stuffed with bookmarks as I'm writing this), can attract many more new fans and readers by focusing on the state of Technic today, here, now. Anyway, I find that many of the concepts Sariel introduces are just as applicable within classic Technic. Let's not forget that most of us around this forum are, by definition, deeply enough interested in Technic that using, say, a 6216 or 2838 or a micromotor seems commonplace, and naturally have increased appetite for classic Technic stuff with which most have grown up with, but we're actually (relatively speaking) a small audience. Too small, I suppose, for an epic ultra-super-extra-mega classic Technic 1000+ page encyclopedia, regardless of how nice it would be to have one. (Technic for teh win)

Fantastic, attaching magnets to a long looped chain is a great idea!

Wow, its design is excellent. Can hardly notice differences to the real machine. Great stuff!

Wow! It looks really good. I especially like the first photo :)

Fantastic stuff! Especially how the subtle chassis curvature is done, so characteristic of the original.

Sorry, it is entirely my fault - in a hurry I wrote LDD instead of LDR in the text; it is indeed a LDR file. It's been corrected in the blog now. You are right, the basic model was computer-generated, and manually edited later - among other reasons, to change the bottom layer colour to blue (in MLCad, in which it opens without problems). Of course, selecting all the plates in a desired layer and recolouring them should be no problem either. Once again, sorry for the mistake.

It's really niice! I particularly like the cleverly done triangular front grille.

Really nice collection. And beyond Technic, if I'm not mistaken, there's a 6929 Starfleet Voyager on the topmost shelf? One of my all-time favourite space-theme sets...!

Very nicely done! I like particularly the mechanism that moves the gearbox dog-ring.

No, nothing custom - just a free Android app from the Play/Market - this one.

On firm off-road with differentials locked and raised chassis, yes, quite acceptably. However it's too heavy for sand, unfortunately it buried itself right in.

I'll try. When I took it out, for a moment my IQ fell to minus infinity: I drove it directly into a sandpool (overenthusiastically hoping for some Sahara-style rallying), and some sand got into the mechanics and joints. So it will need thorough cleaning and partial dis-/reassembly before the possible second filming attempt...

After the racing car posted several months ago, it was about time to build another vehicle - this time on the other end of the spectrum. This one features independent suspension, variable ride height, 4x4x4 drivetrain, 5-speed gearbox (thanks, Sariel) and lockable differentials. Here's a link for more: http://legoism.blogspot.com/2012/05/red-raccoon.html

Wow, it's surprisingly stable for such a tall vehicle with the battery pack mounted high. Great stuff!