Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Sometimes you need to grow up, which means you have to stop playing with knex! Kids who like knex usually are interested in engineering and technologies. But when the kids get older they should learn how actual machines work instead of keeping to themselves while building obsessivly complicated knex contraptions.
Whoever made this gun is probably pretty smart, but if he would focus his time on something better, he could create new technologies that could benefit the world. He might not be able to do that now, but he might build his knowledge of various technologies so that he can make new discoveries in the future. Knex are a waste of time.

Friday, April 25, 2008

K-nex were once a simple toy practically equal to finger painting, but the artistic part of K-nex is only so good. Models are cool but they don't do anything. Even though models are pretty interesting, practical uses for k-nex (or just functional k-nex contraptions) have a different consept entirely. From guns to...
http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/knex-leg.jpg
Building for a purpose with a "mechanical" goal is always much more impressive than building something that looks like a dog or a snowflake or any other little insignifigant thing.