woah, a runninng LEGO car

[RACER X]

http://www.superawesomemicroproject.com

The Super Awesome Micro Project: A full sized Lego car, with an engine made from Lego that runs on air.

It is the brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneur and marketing guy Steve Sammartino (twitter @sammartino) and Raul Oaida (twitter @rauloaida), a self-taught teenage technology genius from Romania who Steve met on the internet.

Steve crowd funded it via twitter with a single tweet:https://twitter.com/sammartino/status...

Super Awesome Micro Project Factoids:

- The engine is made from standard Lego pieces and runs on air!
- The engine has four orbital engines and a total of 256 pistons.
- More than 500,000 LEGO pieces.
- Top speed around 20-30km (We drive it slow as are scared of giant lego explosion)
- Built in Romania and shipped to a secret location in Melbourne.
- It's a Hot Rod design, mainly because hot rods are cool.

F-ing amazing!

[video=youtube;Vsa6QnYar24]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsa6QnYar24#t=17[/video]

[YOUTUBE]Vsa6QnYar24#t[/YOUTUBE]

[Gas Man]

HOLY SHIT!

But I don't remember moving parts being part of lego's. Not like those engine pistons I was seeing.

[Rangerscott]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

HOLY SHIT!

But I don't remember moving parts being part of lego's. Not like those engine pistons I was seeing.

New kids on the block legos.

I wonder if they lube up the moving parts.

[Gas Man]

I'm going to change my middle name to "jipped".

[derf]

It looks to me like the car is actually a steel framed car covered in legos. I base my guess on the front spindle, steering gear and what looks like a covered single leaf spring front suspension from this photo

http://www.superawesomemicroproject....3-1024x682.jpg