{"id":10615,"date":"2013-12-19T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10615"},"modified":"2013-12-19T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:29:52","slug":"a-life-size-lego-car-powered-by-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/19\/a-life-size-lego-car-powered-by-air\/","title":{"rendered":"A life-size Lego car powered by air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Size Lego Car Powered by Air\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ObE4_nMCjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superawesomemicroproject.com\/about\/\">project site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Super Awesome Micro Project Factoids<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 500,000 LEGO pieces were used.<\/li>\n<li>The car engine is made from standard Lego pieces and runs on air!<\/li>\n<li>The engine has four orbital engines and a total of 256 pistons.<\/li>\n<li>Top speed is not very fast, around 20-30km (We were scared of a Lego explosion so we drove it slowly)<\/li>\n<li>It was built in Romania and shipped to a secret location in suburban Melbourne.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a Hot Rod design, mainly because hot rods are cool.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just as I was discovering this link, my boys were playing with their pneumatically driven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uJ8oPh5QE-8\">Lego Unimog<\/a>\u2014which I previously would&#8217;ve called giant.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ObE4_nMCjE&#038;desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_ObE4_nMCjE&#038;app=desktop\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Lin Kayser &#038; Uri Ar}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant. From the project site: Super Awesome Micro Project Factoids More than 500,000 LEGO pieces were used. The car engine is made from standard Lego pieces and runs on air! The engine has four orbital engines and a total of 256 pistons. Top speed is not very fast, around 20-30km (We were scared of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}