http://www.nxtcentral.com The Place for Everything LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:08:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.nxtcentral.com/2008/04/10/thenextbus/ http://www.nxtcentral.com/2008/04/10/thenextbus/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:01:29 +0000 NXTMonger http://www.nxtcentral.com/?p=289 This is my first entry for the Earth Day Building Challenge: The NeXT Bus! It is one of the first robotic public buses, and possibly the first made out of LEGO.
So here is how it helps the Earth:
This bus uses the same amount of energy as a TriBot, right? Well, maybe a little more, but about the same. So what’s the point? I’ll tell you. This bus easily carries 8 minifigs, but these minifigures are traveling alone, so if they weren’t on this bus, they’d be in 8 different cars! So with this bus, you would be using approximately 1/8 of the energy that would have been used.
Admittedly it doesn’t look much like a real bus, but at least it is functional! It has rack-and-pinion steering like a real bus, windows etc.

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