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title: "The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 2: Car and Contraptions (Lego Power Functions Idea Bk 2)"
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# Motorized LEGO projects 4WD cars & contraptions 130+ mechanical builds The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 2: Car and Contraptions (Lego Power Functions Idea Bk 2)

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## Summary

> ⚙️ Build Smarter, Play Harder: Power Your Imagination with Every Gear Turn!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 2: Car and Contraptions (Lego Power Functions Idea Bk 2)
- **How much does it cost?** B/.113 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Build Motorized Machines:** Create dynamic cars, walking bots, and robotic inchworms powered by motors and battery boxes for interactive fun.
- • **Master 130+ Ingenious Builds:** Unlock a treasure trove of creative LEGO Technic projects that challenge and expand your mechanical skills.
- • **Visual-First Learning Experience:** Step-by-step-free, photo-guided instructions make complex builds accessible and engaging for all skill levels.
- • **Explore Real Engineering Principles:** Dive into gears, differentials, suspensions, and power translation with hands-on models that bring STEM to life.
- • **Endless Customization & Replayability:** Combine models and parts to invent your own contraptions, ensuring hours of innovative play and skill growth.

## Overview

The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Vol. 2 offers over 130 innovative LEGO Technic projects featuring gears, motors, and moving parts. Designed to teach mechanical principles like four-wheel drive, differentials, and suspensions, it empowers builders to create motorized cars, robots, and contraptions with photo-based instructions—perfect for millennial professionals seeking a creative, hands-on STEM experience that blends fun with skill development.

## Description

This second volume of The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book, Cars and Contraptions, showcases small projects to build with LEGO Technic gears, motors, gadgets, and other moving elements. You'll find hundreds of clever, buildable mechanisms, each one demonstrating a key building technique or mechanical principle. You'll learn to build four-wheel drive cars, adorable walking bots, steerable tanks, robotic inchworms, and cars that can follow the edge of a table! Each model includes a list of required parts and colourful photographs that guide you through the build without the need for step-by-step instructions. As you build, you'll explore the principles of gear systems, power translation, differentials, suspensions, and more.

Review: So, so good. I cannot recommend this more highly! - We were looking to get a big lego set for our 4.5 year old, who is a huge Lego fan. We wanted something that would have a lot of replay-ability and would extend his skills. We narrowed down our choice to the Lego Boost Robot set, the Lego Technic Mobile Crane 42108, or this book with some motors. We felt the Boost Robot was too dependent on tablets and screen time, and the mobile crane wouldn't have much replayability. As you can guess, we went for this book, and I am really pleased with our choice....as is our 4 year old! The book has over 130 ideas for Lego technic builds; there is a lot of variety and the builds are really fun. There are very few words; each idea has a visual parts list, and then a set of pictures from different angles. It is easier to get it right if you assemble the pieces before you begin. There is an excellent parts list available (you can get it from the publisher's website, 'No Starch'), and we used this to order about £20 of extra technics pieces which cropped up frequently. We also bought two motors, a battery box and a remote. This is my son's first experience of Lego motors, and he absolutely loves it. The things he has made are amazing - I attach a short video of an Inchworm. Today he made a gear transmission model, which can vary between two different speeds. The fun thing about these projects is that you immediately want to find a way to incorporate them into something bigger...a car or a robot or something. It really does extend your Lego skillset. As a guide, my son has been doing Lego Technic for about a year, and can do an age 9+ set independently with no problems. If your child hasn't used technic before, I would recommend starting with something simpler like the Klutz Gadgets and Contraptions sets, and seeing how they get on. I think this book would also be suitable for a much older child or teenager - the models are cool and not cutesy, and they could easily be incorporated into something much bigger. We also have one of Isogawa's 'Technic Ideas' books, and I much prefer this one. The Technic Ideas book mostly comprises lots of basic building blocks in Lego construction. It's useful....but this one is useful and REALLY FUN!!! As an aside, I cannot understand why Lego aren't producing this sort of thing themselves. As far as I can tell, their education range is obscenely overpriced, and frankly dull. I get that they make a lot of money from selling specific sets, but I do think there is a huge gap in their offering in terms of sets that develop technical skills, rather than spoon feeding, but that do it in a fun way.
Review: Excellent ideas! - Fantastic book! The build ideas are very clearly presented and easy to follow for anyone. You will find that some use more than just what comes in a single "Power Functions" set, but still interesting to create should you instead want to employ a manual approach. The book itself is of excellent quality. Pretty heavy, about 1kg (confirmed by author), but given the fantastic quality of paper and print, that's more than expected. I bough volume 1 as well (alongside a Power Function set), but that's just because I love Yoshihito's Lego books, and felt it's better to have them both, not because you'd need to.

## Features

- New Store Stock

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 306,926 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 55 in Children's Books on Heavy Machinery 71 in Children's Books on Model Making 1,159 in Children's Books on Computers & Technology |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 413 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So, so good. I cannot recommend this more highly!
*by A***R on 31 May 2020*

We were looking to get a big lego set for our 4.5 year old, who is a huge Lego fan. We wanted something that would have a lot of replay-ability and would extend his skills. We narrowed down our choice to the Lego Boost Robot set, the Lego Technic Mobile Crane 42108, or this book with some motors. We felt the Boost Robot was too dependent on tablets and screen time, and the mobile crane wouldn't have much replayability. As you can guess, we went for this book, and I am really pleased with our choice....as is our 4 year old! The book has over 130 ideas for Lego technic builds; there is a lot of variety and the builds are really fun. There are very few words; each idea has a visual parts list, and then a set of pictures from different angles. It is easier to get it right if you assemble the pieces before you begin. There is an excellent parts list available (you can get it from the publisher's website, 'No Starch'), and we used this to order about £20 of extra technics pieces which cropped up frequently. We also bought two motors, a battery box and a remote. This is my son's first experience of Lego motors, and he absolutely loves it. The things he has made are amazing - I attach a short video of an Inchworm. Today he made a gear transmission model, which can vary between two different speeds. The fun thing about these projects is that you immediately want to find a way to incorporate them into something bigger...a car or a robot or something. It really does extend your Lego skillset. As a guide, my son has been doing Lego Technic for about a year, and can do an age 9+ set independently with no problems. If your child hasn't used technic before, I would recommend starting with something simpler like the Klutz Gadgets and Contraptions sets, and seeing how they get on. I think this book would also be suitable for a much older child or teenager - the models are cool and not cutesy, and they could easily be incorporated into something much bigger. We also have one of Isogawa's 'Technic Ideas' books, and I much prefer this one. The Technic Ideas book mostly comprises lots of basic building blocks in Lego construction. It's useful....but this one is useful and REALLY FUN!!! As an aside, I cannot understand why Lego aren't producing this sort of thing themselves. As far as I can tell, their education range is obscenely overpriced, and frankly dull. I get that they make a lot of money from selling specific sets, but I do think there is a huge gap in their offering in terms of sets that develop technical skills, rather than spoon feeding, but that do it in a fun way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent ideas!
*by A***O on 16 October 2015*

Fantastic book! The build ideas are very clearly presented and easy to follow for anyone. You will find that some use more than just what comes in a single "Power Functions" set, but still interesting to create should you instead want to employ a manual approach. The book itself is of excellent quality. Pretty heavy, about 1kg (confirmed by author), but given the fantastic quality of paper and print, that's more than expected. I bough volume 1 as well (alongside a Power Function set), but that's just because I love Yoshihito's Lego books, and felt it's better to have them both, not because you'd need to.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great book as it has few words and clear pictures ...
*by A***T on 15 February 2016*

By my 11 year old son: great book as it has few words and clear pictures which show how to make moving Lego mobiles in an easy way. It is also very good because it gives new ideas which I hadn't thought off such as different steering mechanisms.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Lego Power Functions Idea Book, Volume 2
- The Lego Power Functions Idea Book, Volume 1
- Lego Technic Non-electric Models: Simple Machines: Cars and Mechanisms

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