Making of: Mini Cooper Mark I

I spent more than one year to develop and build the Porsche 911, along 2010 and 2011. Finally I finish it in May 2011.

After dedicate all that time to only one car, I wanted to build something smaller and simpler, but at the same time I wanted to keep a part of the complexity showed in the Porsche 911.

I started the build in August 2011.

Making of: Porsche 911 (997) Turbo Cabriolet PDK

To celebrate the first anniversary of my Porsche 911, I show you the same as I did with the Veyron some months ago: a timeline of car development.

The design time for this car was specially long, because the car is very very complex and I needed some time to build others MOC as the Lizard 8x8 or huge Bridge-layer (not presented here) to keep mi head clear.

The design of this car started after finish the Veyron.
Initially the idea of ​​building a second car so fast it was only for one reason: use in it all the mechanisms developed for the Veyron but I couldn't use, however some time after it was much more than that ...

Also if you look closely you can see things never show before...

Astra 8x8 Mini Truck Trial. Now with instructions!!

This mini truck trial was built two months ago for a local competition(finally I can not assist :( ).

The most important rule was the widht limit: only 14 studs.

GBC Balls Reedition. Please TLC, Bring them Back

Directly from Technic Delicatessen

Due to demand in events for GBC circuits, it could be a great idea bring back this balls.

A lot of examples of the best modules are in this Blog, with GBC Tag:

Bricklink prices are horrible for large quantities, and new GBC builders don't have chance to have them for his first module.

I'm sure AFOL and TFOL even will pay for a set with a standard pack for a GBC module.

Even if TLC consider produce it in new colors and moulds it will be awsone rainbow coloured modules or mindstorms NXT colour sensor.

Please, leave you support in CUUSOO (Write price for 30 balls, a standard hopper capacity)

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/7753

Thanks!

Technic Challenge 2011 Final

Edit:

I WON!!!

Thanks to all for your votes!!!

http://technic.lego.com/en-us/Competition/PreviousWinners.aspx

The 2011 edition of the Lego Technic Challenge is running out!


I was selected for the AFOL final with muy Porsche 911 Turbo, called to the challenge as  
"LegendaryStorm T4 Cabriolet'11"

You can vote for your favorite finalist until the end of the month here:

http://technic.lego.com/en-US/Competition/voting.aspx

Sequential 4-speeds mini gearbox instructions

After many requests, I put at your disposal instructions for building the Mini's mini sequential gearbox.

MINI Cooper Mark I

After spending a year and a half creating my Porsche 911, I decided to make a smaller and simpler car, but keeping some of the complexity of my previous creations.

But at the same time I wanted to follow the line to create all my cars on a scale between 1/7.5 and 1/8.5. So if I wanted to make a small car, I had to choose a very small car, a mini car we ... doing a MINI!!
The choice of the first version (Mark I) was only to seek a taste of the purest classic.

MicroCity - Roller Coaster

This is my first MIcroCity module, designed for BrickSur 2011 event.
But I forget it atn home :(

XR7 Mini Rally Car

The past year I made two RC Rally cars. Both were great but didn't have enough speed for me, the solution?? Easy, make a smaller and lighter car.

This new XR7 car has 16 studs wide, 29 studs length and weighs only 550gr.

Short Telescopic Transmission Shaft

Notmally if you want to build a telescopic transmission with double u-joint, minimum length is 8 studs if you use 3L joints. To avoid this I have desinged a very similar solution but with only 6 studs long. It is very simple and strong.

Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) with instructions

Continuously Variable Transmission is a transmission type that has infinite speed ratio between two ratio limits (maximum ratio and minimum).

The system is based in two cones conected by other element (usually a belt), and moving this element along the cone you can change the transmission ratio in infinite positions.

Through arch bridge MADbrick 2011

I built this bridge for MADbrick 2011 event (Madrid, May 2011).

It has 256 studs(205 cm) between supports(spand), more 16 of each support (total 288 studs).

Planetary gearbox with instructions

The gearboxes tend to locked when they are transmiting high torque, in this cases you need to use a clutch for disconnect the gearbox to the trasmission between speed changes.

For eliminate this problems exist a gearbox type which doesn't need clutch for change speeds, the planetary gearboxes.

Advices to build a competitive RC Car. Part 3: Others advices

In this last part I will show you some other important features, as centrer of gravitiy or recomended wheels

Advices to build a competitive RC Car. Part 2: Front axle

The second most important element in an RC car is the front axle.
Without a correct operating and accuracy steering you can't drive the car properly.

Advices to build a competitive RC Car. Part 1: Gear ratio

This is the first in a series of articles in which I shall give advice to build a competitive RC car

In this first I'll show advices for choose the correct gear ratio

Porsche 911 (997) Turbo Cabriolet PDK

This car was previously called SuperCar 2011.

Note: PDK is the Porsche’s name to his dual clutch gearbox, and 997 is the generation (5th and actual).

Porsche 911 (997) Turbo Cabriolet PDK (Español)

Tras un par de mensajes de avances llego la hora de la verdad.


Nota informativa: PDK son las siglas de Porsche para los cambios de doble embrague, y 997 es la generación del modelo(es la 5º y actual).

Truck Trial - Lizard 8x8

After built always Truck Trials 4x4 for some reasons, a few months ago I decided to build my first 8x8 for a local competition in Madrid.

Return-to-centrer systems

Retun-to-centrer systems are very useful and important for some mechanisms and almost essential for making RC cars.

But sometimes it is difficult to find a simple, reliable and effective system, so I show you some possible solutions to this problem.