David Gustafsson spent nearly three years (about 2,400 hours) building a life-size, driveable V70 from Volvo Group out of bricks from the LEGO Group as reported by BrickNerd. To make the fragile bricks robust, he mounted the model on a steel subframe with reinforced supports under the floor and roof. In other words, the Lego car needed a strong skeleton to hold it together and handle its own weight. Without that steel frame, the thousands of bricks alone couldn’t support the car’s structure or its moving parts. Just as Gustafsson’s Lego Volvo needed a solid frame, complex equipment software needs a robust foundation. Read more [Picture source: Marc ENGEL on linkedin.com]
