Compressed Air Powered Lego Car

Two friends, Steve Sammartino of Australian origin and Raul Oaida of Romanian origin, made their dreams come true by building this unprecedented racing car with Lego pieces. Who would have told Lego lovers that two 20-year-olds would create a Lego Car that works on the road!

We can safely say that this car is zero emissions, with a speed of 18 km/h (18.6 m/h).

Building the Lego car

In order to carry out this project, they launched a tweet seeking to finance the project, for an approximate amount of $1,000. The people who contributed money were a total of 20 people so the project could start. In a matter of a few days they had the money and began construction in Romania. It was Raus Oaida who carried out the construction.

They used more than 500,000 Lego pieces and more than 40 patterns. This car is powered by 4 orbital motors, with a total of 256 pistons powered by compressed air. All the pieces are created with Legos except for the tires, wheels and gauges, for example.

Once built, it was flown to Australia for its debut. It has space for two passengers, although the tests were carried out with a single driver. They called their project Super Awesome Microproject.

Its construction took 20 months to complete and was financed by 40 backers, with a total sum of $22,000.

In the car we can see fun details like the ones on the rims, where the face of Raul and his friend Steve is engraved, who is the one who helped him carry out this project.

We can find on YouTube a video of the test of this peculiar Lego car.