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Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) is building LEGO wind turbines in
capital cities across the nation for Engineering Week!
Event details
The public’s imagination will be captured by participating in the construction
of over 3,500 LEGO bricks to form a fully functioning three-metre tall wind
turbine!
For a gold coin donation, members of the public will add LEGO bricks to the
construction.
The wind turbines will be constructed simultaneously in popular public spaces
across the nation on Friday August 24th:
- Brisbane: Queen St Mall
- Canberra: Garema Place, Civic
- Melbourne: Federation Square
- Melbourne: Monash University, Clayton campus
- Adelaide: Rundle Mall
- Perth: QV1 building
- … And a week earlier (August 16-19) in Sydney at Customs House in the city
Read more
here.
ROSCO
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 | | Re: Nationwide LEGO Wind Turbine Competition!
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| In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford wrote: -snip- (...) And from (URL): (...) Giving Sydney one week head start might hinder the chances of true competition happening somewhat. Still, one can never underestimate the complacency of Sydneysiders, I guess. (...) (17 years ago, 10-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
| | | Re: Nationwide LEGO Wind Turbine Competition!
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| (...) Hi Rosco, This sounds like a great project! Will you be publishing the details of the design? I would be interested to know how you went about selecting the size of the various components, gear ratios etc. Greetings, David Wegmuller (17 years ago, 12-Aug-07, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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