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That is some very cool stuff you're working on! The power supply is going to be the challenge, though, as you said.

That's surprisingly cool, having the wings linked with the cockpit like that! Great idea!

I'm pretty excited about it being a Koenigsegg myself, to be honest! It's always struck me as the engineer's choice among supercars, where they pull off some wild engineering ideas, for no particular reason other than that it's cool. I think that's the ethos I like to see in Lego Technic, so I'm pleased with the choice!

As this seems to be the de facto 3D printing topic on here, I thought I'd share an idea I came up with this afternoon. I'm working on a MOC that really needs 8x 9.5L extra hard shock absorbers, but I only have 4x. However, I realized that I can easily 3D print a little spacer that can fit onto my soft 9.5L shocks to make them harder! After testing, I found that they essentially doubled the hardness of the soft shocks, though they still aren't quite as hard as the extra hard ones. You can also put the spacers on the extra hard ones to make them even harder yet! By varying the height of the spacer, you can adjust the hardness as desired, as well. It's quite possible that they would result in weakening of the springs if installed for long periods of time, though. It's not purist, but it might come in handy for some people, especially since the soft shocks seem to be significantly cheaper than the harder ones! Files at: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7318121

Ah, it's that type of move to Denmark, congrats! That makes sense then!

I assume this is only a temporary pause while you're in the process of moving? That book sounds quite interesting! I learned a ton from the classic Technic Builder's Guides, and it would be interesting to see a book including more modern parts in that!

For Android, I'd imagine you should at minimum be able to find an APK file for an older version that you could install, on APKMirror or APKPure or one of those places

Another option, at least if you're on Android, would be to install an APK file for the app, from somewhere like here: https://apkpure.com/sbrick/com.vengit.sbrick I've used files like this to install other apps that have been removed from the play store with good success, so you could give this a try!

Huh, that's pretty interesting! That seems strange that they felt a need for such a specialized pin, and I can't think of many places where I'd want to use one, but it's always good to know about options for such fundamental parts!

Me neither... Luckily, even if nobody makes a backup on purpose, the Wayback Machine always makes backups! https://web.archive.org/web/20250210061347/http://www.technicopedia.com/ Sometimes their backups are slow and missing features, but this one seems to be working quite nicely, including animations!

That's great!

No images for me (Canada, tested on Firefox, Brave, Zen, and Chromium browsers)

We can dream! I doubt we'd see it, when it's functionally not really any different than a neutral gear, but you never know! They did put the DNR gearboxes in a bunch of the supercars, so I suppose things like that are possible

To be honest, I feel like it might be better for that! To me Lotus seems like a bit of a "thinking person's" exotic. Not the same power levels or track times, but a focus on handling and general fun that makes it more enjoyable in most situations. Transverse is something, at least! I did notice that the real car has both automatic and manual 6-speed options for the V6, so there's a chance they give us a proper joystick-operated manual instead of a sequential box? That would be something different, though not necessarily more advanced. (Though if they did build in a true transverse manual transmission, getting a linkage to a shifter in the cabin would be pretty challenging)

Today I was doing some research on the '90s era Toyota All-Trac AWD system, which was designed for transverse engines, and incorporated a central differential (unlike a lot of transverse AWD systems), and was having a hard time understanding the layout. Eventually I ended up the factory service manual, looking at scary pictures like these! I eventually was able to figure out how it's working, and it involves a whole bunch of concentric shafts! That got me thinking it would be interesting to try to build the system in Technic, so I did: The 56T turntable is the input to the system, and is the carrier for the central differential These two 28T turntables and the 12T between them are the spider gears for the central differential (Even though the one on the left is kind of outside the housing of the differential). The 28T on the left then runs a driveshaft to the rear differential. The 28T on the right is fixed to the 28T on the far right of the model, which is the carrier for the front differential: The right black 12T gear in there goes out to the right front wheel, while the one on the left goes through the middle of everything out to the left front wheel! It's pretty weird having three things rotating on the same axis (56T turntable/central differential carrier, front differential carrier, and front left half-shaft), and obviously it's enormous and inefficient! I guess theoretically you could put something like this in a model for realism's sake, but it would require a LOT of other compromises!