Stress Testing Lego

How many times can you assemble two Lego bricks together before they wear out? Phillipe Cantin decided to find out.

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The automated testing process lasted ten days, and the bricks lasted 37,112 repeated assemblies and disassemblies before they failed.

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Impressive stuff. Phillipe now intends to build a faster machine to test different types of Lego bricks. (via The Arduino Blog)