Sariel

I have taken a close look at how real sway bars work, but I just get the impression that they have some backlash and in the end adding a sway bar to a Lego suspension would work the same as simply making the suspension harder.

I've assumed that crashes will be inevitable so I built it so that the body splits into panels but chassis stays together.

I hope this is the right place to share a new tool I've created for you to make things easier: http://sariel.pl/2016/09/bricksafe-thumbnail-helper-added/ The goal of this tool is to help you share any Bricksafe gallery to your EB post with just a few clicks. The tool is available directly at bs.sariel.pl and also at tools.sariel.pl along with a number of other free helpful tools: Gear Ratio Calculator - Calculates final ratio of multiple pairs of gears, shows theoretical output for selected motor and lists available gears combinations for a given spacing. Model Scaler - Allows to calculate dimensions of your model from a blueprint of the original object. Bricksafe Thumbnail Helper - Generates easy-to-use code to include in your post to create a thumbnail gallery from a selected Bricksafe page. You can choose from several thumbnail and image sizes. Brickshelf Thumbnail Helper - Generates easy-to-use code to include in your post to create a thumbnail gallery from a selected Brickshelf / Majhost folder. Wheels Chart - Lists LEGO wheels with their dimensions, weights, subparts, available rim/tire combinations and Bricklink links. Unit Converter - Allows easy conversion between multiple units, including studs, milimeters, inches, bricks, stacked plates and track links. Perhaps the admins will be kind enough to pin this post somewhere or include the links at EB frontpage, as they are of general public use.

I bless every thick instructions book. I've been wishing Lego would make nice, thick, premium-feeling instructions book for years instead of crappy thin stapled booklets that belong in $10 sets - and now they finally do that. I agree that the 42056 set in number one - opening this book feels so great! I certainly hope they will not backtrack just because someone has a somewhat odd fetish about plastic binders. FYI, thick instructions book work great with shelves, just like regular books.

It's lime, mean and fast. It can also go 12 km/h which corresponds to 234 km/h in a full-size truck (scale is 19.5:1). Description and more: http://sariel.pl/2016/09/tatra-dakar-truck/

Best and funniest build I've seen in a long time :D

I bought the music from PremiumBeats and it was pretty expensive.

Of course. The power-to-weight ratio is one of the crucial factors, to the point that I don't think anyone has more than 2 PF XL motors. A truck with 8 XLs would be an instant loser. As for the rules, they change all the time and I don't think they're available in English at the moment. Not the current version anyway.

None of the trucks were controlled by SBricks. The Mindstorms and RC truck had the obvious advantage of range. The custom covers are allowed to make trucks look more realistic without drastically increasing the weight.

We've just finished up the 2016 season today, resulting in what is very likely my best Truck Trial video ever (out of many), so I thought I'll share it with you. Plus, if there are any questions about the trucks or the competition (and there usually are), post them here and I'll try to answer.

I don't know the costs of making the chromed pieces and none of the pieces I own ever got chipped. I imagine it's always a trade-off: perhaps the Caterham set with chromed pieces would be forced to use stickers rather than printed pieces to keep the price down.

Release date is October 1st.

I guess this set is as close to Model Team as it gets nowadays, so it belongs in this forum. If I'm wrong, please move the topic. Pros: - great-looking and instantly recognizable - printed pieces instead of stickers ensure higher, lasting quality and cleaner looks - great amount authentic details, especially in the engine bay and engine itself - demonstrates extremely creative building techniques; building it is a great lesson - a whole lot of new pieces and pieces in new colors - big bunch of spare pieces - appears big enough to be motorized - enough room for 2 hamsters Cons: - less details than the original Lego Ideas project and no steering - very limited playability, hardly a play model - some parts are pretty flimsy (but the model is quite robust overall) - the wheels look slightly wrong - can be challenging to build due to complex techniques it relies on - yet another set that could really use chromed pieces instead of light bluish gray

I think this can be largely mitigated if the reviewer splits video into separate sections and adds a clickable timestamp for each of them (AKA video chapters). I always do that these days, can't imagine making a 20+ minutes long review without it.

I think it's Android's fault. It seems to only send commands from the pad to the app currently "on top".

Hey, safety first ;)

As a Technic reviewer I have a few comments on this matter - I've been considering pros and cons for a long time, and experimented a bit. My thoughts: voiced reviews work well only if the speaker has an impeccable accent and a pleasant voice. I don't consider myself to have any of these, and I think that few people have really good voices in general. It's easy to sound annoying. voiced reviews are generally less accessible than reviews with subtitles for 2 reasons. One is simply that more people understand English in writing than in speech. The other is that these days YouTube is watched largely, if not mostly, on mobile devices, where listening is generally more difficult. You can watch a video with subtitles on a bus, for example, but a voiced video will require using headphones or making your co-passengers angry. YouTube's own closed captions are horrible. They look different on every device and every screen and you really have zero control over e.g. how much screen they take. But they are editable, which can be very useful. YouTube's automated translations are the worst. I'm sure some very simple languages can be tolerably handled by an automated translator, but e.g. English/Polish translations all end up as an utter nonsense simply because Polish is so difficult. One simply does not auto-translate difficult languages. hard-coded subs, that is subs embedded in the video itself are technically probably the best solution. You have a total control over their appearance and how much space they take, and they look the same everywhere. On the downside, they add a lot of work during editing, they can look too small on small screens, and there's no way to edit them once the video is uploaded. To sum it up: if I was a really good speaker, I would speak in my reviews. But I know my limits :)

Because nobody likes touchscreens. The video below explains whats and hows, and the app that does the magic comes courtesy of István Murvai and can be downloaded here: https://dl.dropboxus...kcontroller.apk All kudos to Istvan and the SBrick team, I merely tested it and made the video.

No need. The curved gear racks are big enough to allow placing the pivot point at the coupling. I didn't do that for reasons explained in the comment exactly above yours.

That's how real dumpers work, and they can process the entire train car by car. However, the problem is space between two adjacent cars. It's very narrow and I've decided that I won't be able to fit the ring piece and necessary bracing between the cars. Basically, I would need to narrow down the cargo bay on a car to do that, or to dump cargo over the ring pieces & bracing.

Interesting, I haven't seen any. Would you mind dropping a link?

What happens when a Technic guy plays with Trains: Please forgive me for the crude aesthetics, the entire layout is mostly just a proof of concept. I has a couple of ideas to test, and well, these are the results.

What a beautiful sight :)

Nice ;)

Well, not to criticize, but it uses two precious 5x7 frames when it really needs zero of these. Examples: