{"id":617,"date":"2008-09-07T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-09-07T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T19:57:31","slug":"lego-technic-reminiscing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/lego-technic-reminiscing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Technic reminiscing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember with great fondness the Christmas when I received my first Lego Technic sets. It must have been 1985 or 1986. I had some other Lego sets but these were something else. I seem to recall that I wasn't old enough for them according to the age range on the box but my parents thought I was sufficiently mature.<\/p>\n<p>I think I had this set:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centerwide\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/lego8030.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and I may also have had a supplementary set:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/lego871.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learnt a lot about mechanics from this - for example that (contrary to my initial expectations) if you made a loop of an even number of gears, it would not create a perpetual motion machine. Also, that if you made a loop of an odd number of gears they wouldn't turn at all.<\/p>\n<p>I think I also had a pneumatic set at some point, probably this one, and probably for a birthday in one of the following years:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centerwide\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/lego8040.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and also a motorized set. But looking at the lego catalogues which came with each set, what I really lusted after was this robot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centerwide\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/lego8852.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I was a big fan of robots) and, especially, this car:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centerwide\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/lego8865.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had friends who had these desirable models, and it was always a lot of fun to the houses of these friends and play with their toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember with great fondness the Christmas when I received my first Lego Technic sets. It must have been 1985 or 1986. I had some other Lego sets but these were something else. I seem to recall that I wasn't old enough for them according to the age range on the box but my parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}