[Simone Giertz]’s three-legged pup, [Scraps], got the chance to try a LEGO Technic board for her thrills ... The steering mechanism, in particular, was giving her trouble but became simple ...

Using pneumatic cylinders from the LEGO Technic series ... these pistons are also double-acting thanks to a valve mechanism that switches the pressurized side of the piston as it reaches the ...

Traditionally, the Lego Technic series kits are designed to focus ... “It’s such a complex movement to create the butterfly door mechanism,” said Hansen, who employed a series of springs ...

the Mechanism has now been recreated by an Apple software engineer by the name of Andrew Carol, who has lovingly pieced 1,500 Lego Technic blocks together, creating 110 gears and four gearboxes in ...