LEGO Technic Builds

1. Cam & Follower (Mechanism)
2. Two-legged walkers1 (Contraptions)
3. Gear Cam (Mechanisms)
4. Car Engine Cam & Follower (Mechanisms)
5. Claw Gripper (Mechanism)
6. Scissor Lift (Mechanism)
7. Gripper Fingers (Mechanisms)
8. Simple rack-and-pinion gears (Mechanisms)
9. Alternating Swinging Arms (Mechanisms)
10. LEGO Vehicles - Differential Gears 1 (Contraptions)
11. Rack-and-pinion gears2 (Mechanisms)
12. Crazy swing arm action (Mechanism)

I am a lover of LEGO, and I bought a book, The LEGO Power Functions Idea Book by Yoshihito Isogawa last fall.

Initially, I thought I'd use the book to build with my daughter and nephews. However, I soon realized that even though my daughter and nephews are advanced LEGO builders for their age, they were still having some problems building the machines and mechanism because there were only a few photos accompanying each build.

So, I decided to put together these step-by-step building process for my nephews who live father away than I like. So, this was the genesis for my Building my way through a LEGO Power Functions Idea Book blog.

I'm going to build the machines and mechanisms that are visually interesting, and I'm going to skip around the book. So, I will note the page # as well as the build # in the book on each blog.