From Lego-scale V8s to real-life scale V8s and even a “working” Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (the real one powered a plane, in case you’re unfamiliar), there’s no shortage of brick-based ...

from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines. Using pneumatic cylinders from the LEGO Technic series, [Brick Technology] starts by getting the basics working with a single ...

For now, though, steam engines are limited ... model is built using nothing but LEGO (and a few rubber bands) it operates using a vacuum rather than with working steam, but the principle is ...