The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Wheeled Wonders

by Isogawa, Yoshihito

• ISBN13: 9781593272784
• ISBN10: 1593272782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: No Starch Press

Summary

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Wheeled Wondersis a collection of hundreds of ideas for building cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other vehicles. The models are easy to build based on their pictures alone, and colors distinguish each part, showing you how they're assembled. Each photo illustrates a different principle, concept, or mechanism that will inspire your own original creations..The Technic models inWheeled Wondersspin or move things, drag race, haul heavy gear, bump off walls, wind up and go, and much more. You'll discover how to build differential gears, implement steering and suspension, and design clutch and transmission systems to use in your own vehicles.This visual guide, the second in the three-volume LEGO Technic Idea Book series, is the brainchild of master builder Yoshihito Isogawa of Tokyo, Japan. Each title is filled with photos of Isogawa's unique models, all of which are designed to fire the imaginations of LEGO builders young and old.Imagine. Create. Invent. Now, what will you build?

Author Biography

Isogawa Yoshihito is a LEGO luminary with 42 years of experience. He began writing computer manuals while at the Tokyo University of Science and founded Isogawa Studio, Inc. soon after. He has twice won the grand prize in the Japan Manual Contest held by the Japan Technical Communicators Association and he has won outstanding performance awards many times. He currently lives in Tokyo.

Table of Contents

Part 1
Motorcars
Cars That Spin Something
Cars That Move Something
Part 2
Differential Gears
Steering
Suspension
Part 3
Combining Vehicles with Different Bases
Reversing After Bumping a Wall
Using Pullback and Windup Springs
Part 4
Transmissions
Cool cars