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I have to say that playing with Lego's from an early age had a big influence on my career choice in later years.

 

totally agree.

 

Have you guys seen Lego Dacta? We had it in one of the labs at varsity. You can build awesome things gears, motors, temp & angle sensors and a whole lot of other special lego pieces. Then you connect it to the PC interface and write a program to operate your contraption. Very cool!

 

Some guys there built a dot matrix printer out of lego

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totally agree.

 

Have you guys seen Lego Dacta? We had it in one of the labs at varsity. You can build awesome things gears, motors, temp & angle sensors and a whole lot of other special lego pieces. Then you connect it to the PC interface and write a program to operate your contraption. Very cool!

 

Some guys there built a dot matrix printer out of lego

Lego Dacta? Will have to look into it.

 

Here is one for you.

http://gavush.toplessrabbit.com/legos/reduction1.jpg

 

http://gavush.toplessrabbit.com/legos/reduction2.jpg

 

Reduction unit. It has 32 gears, 28 pulleys and 14 rubber bands. It has 29 ratios: eight 3:1, five 1.5:1, fourteen 4:1, and two 5:1. The total reduction is 4,015,547,461,140,480:1. I guess the Lego motor runs around 2000rpm. This means it would take 2,007,773,730,570.24 minutes for the last shaft to turn over once. That translates into 33,462,895,509.504 hours, or 1,394,287,312.896 days, which is 3819965.24 years, or 381996.52 decades. I imagine the plastic gears and shafts will have worn to nothing well before that.

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please explain WTF is going on here.

 

I will surmize that someone placed the polisher too close to the big big magent and switched it on...

someone got fired thats for sure

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I will surmize that someone placed the polisher too close to the big big magent and switched it on...

someone got fired thats for sure

And that is where most people fail the test. These magnets are ALWAYS on. There is no on/off swich.

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http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/May2011/truthposters/transformers-3-small.jpg Edited by TNT1

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