Computational DesignĮnter Hao Xu at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and colleagues who have developed a way to turn a simple sketch into a Lego Technic design complete with detailed assembly instructions. And that leaves potential model-makers scratching their heads rather than expressing their creativity. Given a box of Lego Technic parts but no instructions, it’s tricky to come up with a design for a plane or a pistol or a bridge. The huge flexibility of the studless approach makes it much harder to design with.

Lego Technic sets come with detailed instructions for how to assemble them into a motorized excavator or tractor or even a Lamborghini Sian Supercar.īut there is a problem. It has evolved in various ways to include gears and motors and has even spawned several other Lego products such as Lego Bionicles and the modular robot system called Lego Mindstorm. This studless product line is today called Lego Technic.

This approach abandoned the iconic studded brick in favor of beams and connectors that create a vastly greater “space” of possible designs. Back in 1977, the Danish toy company, Lego, introduced a new set of interconnecting parts that allowed more complex constructions.

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