patches Posted May 6, 2011 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowellingWulf Posted May 6, 2011 Share 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 legoLego 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ the Expat Posted May 6, 2011 Share I tink it is stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowellingWulf Posted May 6, 2011 Share I tink it is stuck.Is that a polisher and a MRI machine? Crikey mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 6, 2011 Share http://www.marriedtothesea.com/042111/the-number-you-have-dialed-has-been-disconnected.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTBer wannabee Posted May 6, 2011 Share I tink it is stuck. please explain WTF is going on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydkayak Posted May 6, 2011 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ the Expat Posted May 6, 2011 Share please explain WTF is going on here.The same as these...Ok, ok. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Or MRI machines are magnetic. Not slightly, highly (1.5 tesla the ones in the pictures.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ the Expat Posted May 6, 2011 Share I will surmize that someone placed the polisher too close to the big big magent and switched it on...someone got fired thats for sureAnd that is where most people fail the test. These magnets are ALWAYS on. There is no on/off swich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ the Expat Posted May 6, 2011 Share How about a liquid Helium burn? -269 degrees C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Drongo Posted May 6, 2011 Share HEADSHOT ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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