Mechanical LEGO Brick Sorting Factory

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

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[@willcubemakes]

separator lever activator

[@TurtleLegoProductions]

That anti-seizing mechanism is genius. That would have been so helpful on my fire-fighting aracde game.

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

Thanks! I could have used a simple clutch gear, but it’s slip torque was too high and something would go boom boom.

[@brixbuildz]

Oh wow!! This is amazing!!

[@Manarinni]

Cool project

[@empatheticrambo4890]

This is pretty fantastic! The creative and satisfying element of it makes up for the speed

[@BatteryPoweredBricks]

Very nice! So many awesome techniques in one build 🙂. Separator lever activator is quite the tongue twister, the last one that gave me trouble was "TrixBrix switch tracks", They look so easy to say on paper 😅

[@StreamlinersCinema1]

Gonna be honest, I'm actually a little surprised that the "beating" heart works as well as it does without developing any cumulative error. It relies on the red ring engaging the dark grey gear with a precision of 1/4 rotation. If it ever missed, it would not auto-correct, and the synchronization would be off forever. For that kind of intermittent motion, I probably would have used a Geneva drive or something. But hey if it works, then it works! The ratchet is definitely an interesting solution.

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

Yes, the ratchet stops the rotational tension from rotating the dark gray gear backwards, potentially throwing off the driving ring. A Geneva drive would have worked great, still with a ratchet, but I tend to overcomplicate things but the overcomplication makes things more interesting! Thanks for the kind words and ideas!

[@Brick-Slayer]

Amazing!

[@elrondaso7804]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@TheGBCWorkshop]

How do you connect power functions to a 9V train controller ?

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

With these. They have since been discontinued but you can find them on eBay. www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-power-functions-extension-wire-8886

[@deltazero3796]

Will it work with technic bricks?

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

Technic bricks are 1x bricks. I haven’t tested those in this thing, so I can’t really answer that question. This was designed with 2x bricks in mind, so if I had to guess, they wouldn’t sort through correctly.

[@shrekenthusiast8703]

Wow! Can you do one for different axles and gears? Shouldnt be too difficult.

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

I have already made a sorter for gears, and the round nature of them made them insanely hard to sort, but somehow I was able to find a way to do it. See here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4WcnXSreLWYqbM

[@simonblackburn-cv3oi]

Hello have you got any instructions available for this please?

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

I don’t for this machine. The reason is that it’s just so big and instructions for something like it would be very unconventional to make.

[@themechbuilder6171]

have i seen this before?

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

I don’t think so.

[@LiamAtaide]

you're probably thinking of this -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH6conqQeMhners&ab_channel=AkiyukiBrickChannel

[@themechbuilder6171]

@@LiamAtaide you are goddamm right

[@steve_18schannel64]

You could have. Akyiuki's birck channel made this years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH6conqQeMhners&ab_channel=AkiyukiBrickChannel

[@DeianGiNet]

Do you sell the schema of how to build that machine? I want my son to build and sort those !@#$ legos :)

[@LegoTechnicsRule]

@@DeianGiNet Not on this machine, but a lot of my other smaller creations have instructions.