Created by David Wegmuller, this nifty device is basically “a track mounted LEGO vehicle that moves by shifting its own track.” Video demonstration after the jump.
It would place a section on track in front of itself, roll onto it, then pick up the section behind itself. A stack of tracks can be stored and sequenced, in a sense it would be a low tech programmable robot, able to be sequenced to do a predefined looping route. If it sounds familiar, it is because the inspiration came from Wallace and Gromit’s train sequence
Created by David Wegmuller, this nifty device is basically “a track mounted LEGO vehicle that moves by shifting its own track.” Video demonstration after the jump.
It would place a section on track in front of itself, roll onto it, then pick up the section behind itself. A stack of tracks can be stored and sequenced, in a sense it would be a low tech programmable robot, able to be sequenced to do a predefined looping route. If it sounds familiar, it is because the inspiration came from Wallace and Gromit’s train sequence
