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If you want to learn mechanics with LEGO, you don't want a particular set -- you want a book. You want the Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide: https://www
by dsr_ 10y ago
If you want to learn mechanics with LEGO, you don't want a particular set -- you want a book.
You want the Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide: https://www.nostarch.com/technicbuilder https://www.nostarch.com/technicbuilder
which is an excellent reference for how to build steering mechanisms, differentials, transmissions, suspensions... and Sariel usually offers two or three different ways of accomplishing any given goal.
Highly recommended.
- joshmarinacci 10y agoI also highly recommend this book. It's basically a crash course in mechanical engineering. I'm a 41yr old software engineer who's played with Legos my whole life, and I still learned a bunch.
- shaftway 10y agoThe Mindstorms kits, a few pounds of technic parts are also pretty good for dipping your toe into robotics. The Mindstorms have instructions on building line-following cars and a variety of other things. I have fond memories of hacking together a 10 dpi photocopier using the light sensor and a few motors.