I started building Lego Technics card during the Covid pandemic. I had always wanted to build a Lego Technics car and I was suffering cabin fever being somewhat house bound.
I ordered a Rally car from eBay and proceeded to build the car which took a couple of days. I was hooked from the get go and became interested in motorizing Lego cars. Not wanting to mess up my first build, I ordered another Rally car from eBay with the intent of equipping it with Lego motors for remote control.
I sourced the motors from the Lego store which was not the cheapest method but I rationalized the purchases due to covid relief. After I made a few purchases, Lego cut me off as I guess other folks were buying up the motors for resale on eBay.
Today, I thought I would post some photos of my collection, which I will detail each vehicle with what I learned along the way.
My first lego rally car with 2 buggy motors and a Chinese controller.
Rear view with buggy motors
My second rally car with a 540 brushed motor.
Rear view RC brushed 540 motor
The Dumborc RC controller
Top view of 540 brushed motor
Lego 8070 super car with 5 lego motors
MouldKing Icarus, modded from 5 motors to 3
MouldKing Racing Truck turned into an airport plane mover
Fast, 2 buggy motors
Driven by 7.2 volt nicads
My creation - 4 MouldKing L motors - fast
Another creation of mine - also fast
Yet another of mine - 4 Lego motors AWD
A Raspberry Pi test mule
Controlled over RDP
Lego buggy converted to run under PyBricks (Python)
A Lego creation converted from IR controllers to 2.4
Look identical but much longer range
My need for speed - my creations, 540 brushed motors
Very fast
Awaiting a servo from RobotShop.ca
My favorite creation - 2 buggy motors
MouldKing controller
and very fast
Comment on which detail breakout you would like me to do. I will discuss sourcing, pricing, and what worked and did not work.
Jimmy
Comments
Post a Comment