It's Technics, not MindStorms, but still impressive as heck: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__imgur.com_a4j6dyX&d=DwIFAg&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=J5fb0ELkRoh7TzAGYz99sSMvB-c7i4AC0HDT2OVPrww&m=vglBojLnfF08R8wOzpusaa7e4nlb0z-X0Xnhnk8pcXc&s=6-ZilcqvayGa2kcJIeO10vIRfQajBh_784WIbemFKk8&e=

 

Longer version, with sound: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DP-2DARijabjmY&d=DwIFAg&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=J5fb0ELkRoh7TzAGYz99sSMvB-c7i4AC0HDT2OVPrww&m=vglBojLnfF08R8wOzpusaa7e4nlb0z-X0Xnhnk8pcXc&s=CaSOXqv-7kEhbsBvZye12HlTgQkjopN3UeZ-M3V_LVA&e= 

(Took me a while to grok what the "Sorry, camera fail" meant at one point: I think he meant that he didn't move the camera, so you can't really see the leg retract very well)

 

This took him 18 months to build! And is exactly how some real bridges are deployed: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D1Catl2yS03A&d=DwIFAg&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=J5fb0ELkRoh7TzAGYz99sSMvB-c7i4AC0HDT2OVPrww&m=vglBojLnfF08R8wOzpusaa7e4nlb0z-X0Xnhnk8pcXc&s=AGBxgVS923CoVCJy49uvTyHiISWqlfFP-b-c-M_AfMU&e= 

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