Review: The LEGO System

You may have noticed that you didn’t learn much about actually building with LEGO pieces in this chapter. That’s okay; there’s lots of that to come. You did learn about the basic framework and terminology of the LEGO system. You’ll use that knowledge to work through the construction techniques and ideas that follow. Being able to tell a brick from a plate makes all the difference as you move on to those more complicated topics. In turn, those practices allow you to create a minifig-scale train station, a three-dimensional sphere you can hold in your hand, and even a mini space shuttle that you get to design from the ground up. Between here and there, I’ll try to explain more of this amazing system, describe its many uses, ...

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