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Niceeeeeeeeee

Brandon and I would spend all day Saturday sometimes building with his legos, at one point we inherited two MINDSTORMS kits and took it all to a new level...

Building pulling tractors/crawlers was out thing, he learned about gear reductions / multipliers and pulley/belt reductions, sometimes as much as 100/1 ratio which worked great for making pulling trucks/tractors/cranes...

cam movements / pushrods...

Lego's are awesome... Keep him going Mateo...
I did the lego thing forever as a kid, my engineer father definitely encouraged it with us. What really opened my eyes to "how things work" was when I got a Contructs kit. At 6 years old I suddenly understood gear ratios. If I flipped one drive unit one way it had a really high top speed (gear multiplier) but it couldn't go up the ramp I built. Turn it the other way, and suddenly I got a wicked rock crawler No top speed but would go up anything. The light switch went on so to speak. I am glad my nephews are into all this stuff as well, I want more future hot rodders and boaters rather than gamers.