The Breakdown
- YouTube channel Brick Technology showcases custom vehicles tackling hardcore obstacles.
- Lego cars require serious modifications to hit the larger loops.
- A physics and engineering lesson is far more fun in Lego form.
If you think you're good at building Lego vehicles from scratch, I ask you to have a gander at the YouTube channel Brick Technology. There you'll find plenty of videos highlighting wild Lego vehicle builds designed to complete increasingly complex tasks.
The latest video features a series of loops, which grow larger as they're completed. What does it take for a Lego car to complete these loops? More power, varying wheel sizes and layouts, and a "driver" up to the pending punishment.
The video delivers funny visuals and also showcases interesting physics and engineering lessons. Centripetal force, horsepower and torque, and the effect of weight and its position in the vehicle all matter for stunts like this.
While the video above shows someone having fun, these clips still represent a great visual aid for learning. Brick Technology has other videos in which the vehicles are tasked with crossing gaps, climbing slippery slopes, driving through sand, and more. These all serve to entertain, but perhaps a younger enthusiast (or an older one like me) might learn a thing or two about how their 1:1-scale vehicle operates.
I'm a fan of "content" that makes learning fun, even if that's not the video's intended goal. Watching Brick Technology create, destroy, rebuild, and potentially overcome obstacles makes for great entertainment for folks of all ages. Stuff like this is also how we end up with engineers and stunt people willing to try these antics for real.
Remember when Tranner Foust and Greg Tracy pulled off this wild stunt:
Motor1's Take: Science is fun, and learning is awesome. The Brick Technology channel is a perfect example of that.
Source: YouTube
