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On 24th August, Engineers Without Borders held a nationwide awareness/fundraising day for their renewable energy programs. I helped them by designing the tower and blades. They completed the design of the nacelle and hub, complete with motors so it could actually generate power.
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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

Live video footage of the progress in each city will be broadcast at each site, setting up an inter-city rivalry to see who can complete their LEGO wind turbine first!
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Another update to my LEGO instructions cross-reference, find them here. Highlights include:

Technic: Harvester (no sign of Bulldozer yet…)
Sculptures: Eiffel Tower
Batman: Bat Tank, Batcopter
Star Wars: Sith Infiltrator, Tie Crawler, Republic Cruiser
Mars Mission: Armored Drilling Unit
Spongebob Squarepants: Chum Bucket, Mrs. Puff’s Boating School

And a few other goodies 😉

Added: 49
Updated: 19
Deleted: 0

Thanks for corrections to:

• Eric Matecki
• Peeron.com

After reading this post on Lugnet, I checked my database, and found that set 7602 was among a group of sets that had been previously removed from lego.com, but have now reappeared. So they have now been re-instated in my database.

Promotional: 7601-7609, 7610
Exo Force: 5965
Racers: 4947, 4948
Train: Instruction to add motor to Christmas Train

Added: 14
Updated: 0
Deleted: 0

Another update to my LEGO instructions cross-reference, find them here. Highlights include:

Creator: Tan House, Truck, Ferris Wheel, Dinosaur
Mars Mission: All the new sets
City: “Magic Box” Surf Lifesaver and Fire Chief
Castle: All the new sets, including The Final Joust
Factory: Market Street
Star Wars: All the new sets

And a few other goodies 😉

Added: 40
Updated: 21
Deleted: 0

Thanks for corrections to:

• Peeron.com

Find the cross reference here.