What it is
This is the English Martyrs LEGO Ramps activity, settled 18 August 2026:
families build LEGO vehicles and test them on cardboard ramps, exploring slope, speed and distance.
The LEGO is a box of random pieces, plus components sorted into gratnels.
It is not the junk modelling vehicles. The 6 August reading
was wrong. Junk modelling vehicles are the roll half of Nature in Motion, and a different
activity from this one.
The ramp is foldable, and is being built for the day.
The example inspiration links it to nature through gravity.
Gravity is not biomimicry, and it gives a child
nothing to change about the buggy they are building. Two things do:
grip, where a
tree frog's toe pads became a hexagonal wet-weather tyre tread and a gecko's foot became a dry
gripper, and
body shape, where drag is something a shape can reduce. Both are
decisions made with junk and LEGO in hand.
The biomimicry research has the photographs,
and the caution that the boxfish behind the Mercedes-Benz Bionic turned out not to be low-drag after
all.