Forbidden LEGO Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against!

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-07
Publisher(s): No Starch Press
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Summary

Written by a former master LEGO designer, this full colour book contains projects that break the LEGO Company's rules for building with LEGO bricks-rules against building projects that fire projectiles; cutting or gluing bricks; and using non-standard parts. Many of these are backroom projects that LEGO's master designers build under the LEGO radar, just to have fun. Learn how to build a catapult that shoots M&Ms; a gun that fires LEGO beams; a continuous fire ping-pong ball launcher; and more! Tips and tricks will give you ideas for inventing your own creative model designs.

Author Biography

Ulrik Pilegaard was a Senior Designer and Studio Manager for LEGO MINDSTORMS in Denmark and San Francisco, where he worked on projects for LEGO Technic in collaboration with the Media Lab at MIT and designed multiple models for LEGO MINDSTORMS (including R2D2). After LEGO, Pilegaard held the position of Manager of Design at Evolution Robotics, where he helped develop state-of-the-art robotics solutions. Since 2004, he has worked for Energy Innovations as a senior product designer

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: How to Build Great Things
Chapter 2: Paper Plane Launcher (PPL)
Chapter 3: Candy Coated Catapult (CCC)
Chapter 4: Ping-Pong Cannon (PPC)
Chapter 5: All-Terrain Lego (ATL)
Chapter 6: High Velocity Automatic Lego Plate Dispenser (HVALPD)
Appendix A: Tips and Tricks

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