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The car was designed and built by Melbourne's Steve Sammartino and Romanian whiz kid Raul Oaida.
The Super Awesome Micro Project was funded by a pair of vague tweets from Sammartino and Oaida, asking for 20 participants to kick in $500 to $1,000. The car is powered with four compressed-air-driven orbital engines and 256 pistons made of Legos. The wheels and a few load-bearing parts are not Lego-based.
The car was built in Romania and shipped to Australia for its first public test drive.
You can read more about the project and its unusual funding here.
Source: Wired
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