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From: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu (Paul Gyugyi)
Subject: Re: Legos building legos
Message-ID: <1993Jun28.214249.9530@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 21:42:49 GMT
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In article <1993Jun28.184642.18125@comp.lancs.ac.uk> davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles) writes:
>In article <20mjor$5pf@techbook.techbook.com> szabo@techbook.techbook.com (Nick Szabo) writes:
>>Has anybody tried building machines out of Lego-Technic that
>>can put together other lego structures by joining bricks?
...
>Well i don't know about lego but in fischertechnik you can get hydraulics. 
>Using hydraulics should give you more than enough force to join bricks
>together.
>
Could you fill all the lego pneumatic tubes with fluid and use them as
hydraulics?  The pump wouldn't work, but you could use an extra
cylinder as the controller, with maybe a lever to help out.




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