I was initially disappointed that this wasn't the infinite loop, then thoroughly entertained and impressed by seeing the process of making the mechanism, then delighted by the reveal that there are plans for a curved/looping design!
This is so infinitely cool! What a journey this must have been-4 months of hard work DEFINITELY paid off with the satisfying final result. Can't wait to see what you create next!
This is one of the coolest builds ever. The fact that you spent four months on this shows the crazy dedication and you made an awesome video for it. Congrats man :)
damn this is a beautiful build... as an external person with absolutely no experience designing Lego's, this looks insanely impressive. especially the integration part, my brain couldn't even start to think about how to combine two mechanisms together and it looked beautiful on your end, much respect!
wow this is a lego and engineering marvel 🤯 absolutely brilliant! the magnet idea to keep the dominoes in place was very smart. I wish I could do this with my own “real” domino projects haha (also it was nice to see my video briefly at 0:14 😊) props to you on the time spent getting this to all work! a curved domino machine will be very interesting!
Woah! The Domino Queen is here! Thank you for appreciating my machine, that means a ton coming from you (I don't actually think setting up dominos the normal way is a waste of time I swear, what you do is amazing 😅)! Now I just need Mark to see this video... 😏. Thanks for stopping by Lily!
I think I need the energy of “it’s time to make betrayal illegal” in more of my problem solving. Amazing build, and congrats on taming the magnet criminals!
The history of Lego magnets is much more storied than just the trains theme! They were used across a diverse range of themes including Aquanauts, City, and Star Wars. The fan favorite theme "M:Tron" was based entirely on magnetic play features (hence the "M"!) Sometime in the early 2000s, the small magnetic elements were ditched, likely due to the possibility of internal damage in case a child were to swallow a pair of them. Many other toy companies did the same around this time (Buckyballs my beloved.) Lego trains are still produced into the modern era, and now connect using larger, less swallowable elements (much to the disappointment of trains fans like myself.) Just a bit of fun trivia. If anyone actually reads all this, i appreciate u :)
There might also be an issue with too much energy building up in the system. As we saw in that clip of each domino knocking over a progressively larger one, there's a lot of potential energy stored in a set up domino, and it can output more kinetic energy than it takes to knock it over, so in the case of a perpetual ring of dominoes, each one might get "pushed" harder than the previous, with an unknown upper bound.
@@hollt693 Can't a domino only extert as much force as was used to set it up? How do you put more potential energy into a domino without lifting it off the ground completely
@@0osk Great question! By standing the domino up, you're putting in a position where its center of mass is a fair bit higher off the ground than if it was laying flat, so while you're not technically setting it up ON something, you're sort of setting it up on itself, if that makes sense. In a more extreme example, imagine I stood a sledgehammer up balanced on the flat at the end of the handle with the head high in the air. It would only take a stiff breeze to topple it, but you'd better believe the head will hit the ground a lot harder than the force required to knock it over.
I think the main issue will be timing... If they aren't reset at the exact same rate they're knocked down, one end of the cascade will catch up with the other. It will probably need some sort of feedback system to account for this
@@hollt693 I know that the force required to cause something to release its stored potential energy can be less than the energy stored. I'm saying a domino can't hit the ground with more force than is required to set it up in the first place. Like in the small to big domino example, the big domino hits the ground so hard because more than that same amount of energy was used to set it up in the first place.
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I love the circular infinite domino idea. It will have to be a very wide circle to give each arm enough time to reset the domino. Also, because the backstop for each domino is attached to the lever raising the domino in front of it, you may have issues with setting them up asynchronously
@@GrantDavis According to my quick math, using 7 secs for a full cycle, and one domino unit being 16 lego "studs" big, 11:10 in the vid (12,8cm) and a falling speed of 15 per second , you need at minimum 105 units for a smooth loop, so a circle with a circumference of 13,44meters and a diameter of 4,3 meters and an angle of 3,4degrees per unit. So your current setup at 11:11 is already good enough to reach the minimum of 3,4degrees. So you need 10x the amount that you currently have. Gotta be really interesting how you gonna fix the synchronicty issue. each cycle the machine is gonna be a little bit out of sync, and building too early or too late. Apparently with lego mindstorms you can toggle motor speed and have pressure sensors, so maybe with that.
@@looserkidful Yeah need a way to detect when the piece falling in some way, or it'll go out of sync quickly. Wonder if there are mechanical shortcuts that don't use pressure sensors and (electronically?) alters speed. Maybe can have the falling domino engage the gears in some way, and then have the lifting up cycle disengage the gears again at the end of the cycle. Each unit would be a bit like that box with a single switch that opens and flips the switch back.
@@ChristofferFlensburg Do you need to detect at all? The individual pieces that push up the dominos are attached to gears, no? Set them up in different stages of the process, so they all work at the same pace, but at different times. Assuming you can rotate the gears to even work in a circle like that. If not, you would have to have motors for each individual section of the loop.
1:05 oh I actually have those! My dad still has the parts from his old Lego train sets, and those magnets are a part of those! They work pretty well, surprisingly. At least better than what I expected from 40 year old Lego magnets
Grant! I remember debating you in NCFCA. We were at a tournament and your mom showed me your pirate cove video. Very impressive. Your trial and error approach was very interesting, thanks for showing all your mistakes, it makes the video so much more interesting. Glad to see you are still building! Keep it up!
Wow this channel is tremendously underrated. You are going places! Had me attached all the way through, and did I mention how smooth that sponsor plug at the end was! Amazing
I really love your style of commentary. You throw in enough humor and intrigue to make it interesting without overdoing it. So many RUclipsrs constantly sound like they are trying to convince you that their content is amazing. That gets old really fast. This video was great! Nice job!
Even just the linear version of this would make a stunning piece on a coffee table or workspace. Its absolutely beautiful in terms of design and i love the doors that hide the mechanism. I would buy this to make one myself or even the 2.0 version thats circular. 10/10
This is amazing! It felt like watching a Mark Rober video. I‘m looking forward to more videos in this style! And I‘m really interested to see if you can actually make this machine into an infinite circle. Thinking about it it should be doable by just adjusting the timing of the different segments, you just need a decent bit of space for the full circle, and of course quite a few more pieces ;)
I’d love to see a circular version, /i think you are going to find it might be a lot harder than you think 😊 Waiting for a video in 6 months to a year explaining why it is so hard haha Good luck!
In this video, the 10 dominoes take about 1 second to fall and about 6 seconds to reset. that means a circular loop will need to be at least 70 dominoes long if everything else is unchanged.
I love how you dedicate into this lego work of dominoes, it's fascinating and amiable. And you share some really useful and educational sponsors. You are awesome!
This is amazing! Also i have a suggestion. Can you make a working waterfall and a working river that leads to the waterfall? its okay if you don't wanna add a working flowing river this lego engineering is great so far!
If Mark Rober sees this, he'll either try to revamp his machine to double your current, or he'll bring a friend to watch it for 24 hours straight to let you break his record
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Dang, how did I only just now find you're channel? This is the coolest lego art engineering build I've found so far! The combination of aesthetic and functionality is amazing
8:30 I felt that in my soul. I especially get that feeling when I disassemble a car engine, put it back together and then turn the key for the first time. Arghhhhh leeeeeets goooo! Mutha. farker. take that 🤛 and that 🤜 yeewwwwww! 🙆♂️
4:34 This mechanism is called a Schmitt Trigger. It is actually used in almost every switch or button to reduce arcing, because if it wasn't used, it would be like when you hold it in the middle and the lights flicker, but every time you press it. Your light switches have these, the switches of your power bars have these, and especially the switches of your breakers have some! They are a must-have when switching high voltages or currents, and a nice thing to have otherwise, like in (most) keyboards. Also they sound better. Some switches literally have this exact mechanism (but without the purple part). It is also a thing in electronics, where the input voltage must be above a certain threshold to switch it on, or below a different threshold. Exactly like its mechanical counterpart! TLDR: The thing in switches or buttons that make that click clack sound and make it hard to get the lights to flicker.
Something you should be aware of before starting on the infinite loop is that you need to be able to pick them up as fast as they fall or else it will eventually fail.
I'm sure that this has already been said, but just in case it hasn't here it is: On the next version, you might be able to use axels to transmit power a lot cleaner and easier than a bulky gear train. If you give each section their own gearbox, this means they can take a faster rotation speed that's transmitted down the line by the motor and turn it into the torque required to lift the domino. Increasing torque could also come in a redesign of the mechanism to add a movement farther upwards on the domino's bottom side. By increasing the distance of the lever arm, you use length instead of strength (since it becomes easier to turn something when lever arm is further from the pivot point/fulcrum), saving the transmission some strain. What do I know though. I'm just a dog on the internet :3
@@cetomedo they wct as a spring since they are not solid enough to overcome torque required to lift the Domino. However, if instead of transferring more torque than rotational energy, he used a gearbox to translate the high-speed & low-torque output of the motor to a gearbox at each segment that translates it to low-speed & high torque. This would allow the axle to be under less torque-stress and be less "springy"
This is probably the best example of using Lego in a project I've seen so far on YT, the fact that you used magnets, this is a really unique project, you should go AGT with this!
The newer LEGO trains use a different flip-flop magnetic coupling that is superior to the old one, so there are a lot of those old-style magnets for sale. However, I never would have thought to use them for proper alignment of dominos!
Lego's have changed since I was 7. Having worked in the automotive powertrain division (years later) the work completed there was often tested using mini models made from wood scrap. Everything begins with a blank sheet of paper and develops from there. Very cool Lego contraptions. I think I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas. 🙂
This has absolutely BLOWN MY MIND! You and Jason Alleman are total legends when it comes to these sorts of things, and this may be my favorite kinetic model yet! Great work! :D
Ah this is a wonderful design, and a great example of what creativity can achieve! I'm just wondering if the lifting arm design is that efficient. Since you have the stop at the bottom in place, isn't it now possible to more efficiently push the brick at a 90° angle? That would remove torsional forces that are currently loading the lifting arm down, which means the arm shouldn't bind and strain as much! :)
Not quite sure what you mean about the stop at the bottom in place. I am sure that there are other mechanisms that would lift these better with a better angle for max force, however, I doubt that there are many as compact as this one. I didn't mention it in the video, but I wanted the base to be only half of the height of the domino - I just think it is much more impressive.
I’ve always loved legos, especially when growing up. Just recently have I decided to get back into the hobby, since I wasn’t able to when I moved as I had left all my Lego at my mums house. Just coming back to watching others build with Lego on RUclips has really made my year. You did an amazing job with the build! It makes me so proud to enjoy this stuff as much as I do! And I can’t wait to get back into it! (My mums finally shipping my collection at the end of this year)
Out of over 3,000 comments, you are the first person to notice the style similarity. I LOVE STUDSON, and I decided about 6 months ago that making my videos in a similar style to him was what I wanted to do. Studson is a legend.
@@GrantDavis Fair. There’s a rule of combat outlined in the academic book “How to make War”, which I feel bears repeating: RULE 4- “If It’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.” In my experience, this phrase also works for Engineering. Either way, awesome job, and love the vid!
Awesome! Really looking forward to the infinite loop idea. I guess this would require to be so large that when the effect started, the cascade must take so long to complete the loop so that the dominoes can be set up before the cascade hits them again. Would certainly be a crazy thing to watch :D
I posted a short 2 days ago, does that count? Short answer is I got married and moved 3 times. Lots of life happening, but I am still LEGOing behind the scenes
Such a crazy and cool idea! Congrats on pushing through to getting it to where it works so seamlessly, and I'm excited to see where you go with the curved setup, :D And of course I like eggs - who doesn't? XP
I like eggs
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I was very confused by this when I saw it before watching the vid 😂
Me too but they make my farts a bio hazard
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This is lovely. Can't way to see the circular version.
So cool to see you here lol
Exactly. All I could think of was a domino contraption that would never stop.
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Yes, version 2 will be the real Infinite LEGO Domino Machine!
Fantastic work, Grant!
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@@GrantDavisI’m wet thinking about the circular version
@@joshsteele28 😫
WHAT, BEYOND THE BRICK IS HERE???
Dude! That's so cool. Your persistence and engineering is not only impressive but inspiring. I can't wait to see the next iterations of this design!
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Wow hey. Fancy seeing you here.
Do it again but make the dominoes out of “Wewd”
Oooh another youtuber I like
oh hey mark
I don't usually subscribe after just one video, but you instantly earned my subscription with this
This is high praise. Thank you sir.
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Brilliant work, dude! Love all the innovative solutions you have going on, and it works so smoothly in the end. Infinitely satisfying!
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All he needs now is your Domino machine. Only Mega sized. 😆 🤣
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Your commitment to making this happen has been incredible to watch. The build is mind-boggling! Well done.
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What currency is it? Like American or what?
But that’s really cool 😊
Done 👍
@@Dishbsmeosisusujsjsjs also those pieces do look like eggs
sure :DDDDDD
Actually insane that you technically broke a world record that took a group of engineers to beat in a cave with a box of scraps.
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@@GrantDavishave you quit?
I was initially disappointed that this wasn't the infinite loop, then thoroughly entertained and impressed by seeing the process of making the mechanism, then delighted by the reveal that there are plans for a curved/looping design!
The fact that this hasn’t blown up is astounding to me.
It is blowing up as we speak. I just posted it yesterday!
Oh I thought he meant the build 😅
Almost a million views now
@@MrDumbo-sf1jc lol
Well here we are now
This is so infinitely cool!
What a journey this must have been-4 months of hard work DEFINITELY paid off with the satisfying final result. Can't wait to see what you create next!
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Id love to see this in a circle where its just a forever loop of it raising them up and following along
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JK Brickworks actually did it
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This is one of the coolest builds ever. The fact that you spent four months on this shows the crazy dedication and you made an awesome video for it. Congrats man :)
Wow why is everybody commenting under that video
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We need a 10 hour loop of this machine just running
Couldn't you just run the same 30 second loop for 10 hours and get the same result?
@@trm4life wouldn't have the same magic and ambiance.
damn this is a beautiful build... as an external person with absolutely no experience designing Lego's, this looks insanely impressive. especially the integration part, my brain couldn't even start to think about how to combine two mechanisms together and it looked beautiful on your end, much respect!
Thanks a ton!
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wow this is a lego and engineering marvel 🤯 absolutely brilliant! the magnet idea to keep the dominoes in place was very smart. I wish I could do this with my own “real” domino projects haha (also it was nice to see my video briefly at 0:14 😊) props
to you on the time spent getting this to all work! a curved domino machine will be very interesting!
Woah! The Domino Queen is here! Thank you for appreciating my machine, that means a ton coming from you (I don't actually think setting up dominos the normal way is a waste of time I swear, what you do is amazing 😅)! Now I just need Mark to see this video... 😏. Thanks for stopping by Lily!
Have y'all seen this actual Infinite Lego Domino machine by JK Brickworks? ruclips.net/video/IQhgiL3TqYQ/видео.html
I love your videos Hevesh!
JK brickworks did a automatic circle one, a set of 64 bricks falling and getting up automatically, around 1million per day
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I think I need the energy of “it’s time to make betrayal illegal” in more of my problem solving. Amazing build, and congrats on taming the magnet criminals!
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I love when people use lego in unique ways like this. it just shows how versatile these little plastic bricks are
Yea if only they weren't expensive. Like not $800 and above for sets.
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Seeing the whole process was awesome! Way to go! 👏🏻
His cheer of happiness after his hard work payed off at 6:38 is so adorable and it makes me so happy 🥺😊
The history of Lego magnets is much more storied than just the trains theme! They were used across a diverse range of themes including Aquanauts, City, and Star Wars. The fan favorite theme "M:Tron" was based entirely on magnetic play features (hence the "M"!) Sometime in the early 2000s, the small magnetic elements were ditched, likely due to the possibility of internal damage in case a child were to swallow a pair of them. Many other toy companies did the same around this time (Buckyballs my beloved.) Lego trains are still produced into the modern era, and now connect using larger, less swallowable elements (much to the disappointment of trains fans like myself.) Just a bit of fun trivia. If anyone actually reads all this, i appreciate u :)
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Can't wait to see the circular one, that is a fantastic idea, but I'm worried about how large a circle you'll need to keep it going perpetually.
There might also be an issue with too much energy building up in the system. As we saw in that clip of each domino knocking over a progressively larger one, there's a lot of potential energy stored in a set up domino, and it can output more kinetic energy than it takes to knock it over, so in the case of a perpetual ring of dominoes, each one might get "pushed" harder than the previous, with an unknown upper bound.
@@hollt693 Can't a domino only extert as much force as was used to set it up? How do you put more potential energy into a domino without lifting it off the ground completely
@@0osk Great question! By standing the domino up, you're putting in a position where its center of mass is a fair bit higher off the ground than if it was laying flat, so while you're not technically setting it up ON something, you're sort of setting it up on itself, if that makes sense. In a more extreme example, imagine I stood a sledgehammer up balanced on the flat at the end of the handle with the head high in the air. It would only take a stiff breeze to topple it, but you'd better believe the head will hit the ground a lot harder than the force required to knock it over.
I think the main issue will be timing... If they aren't reset at the exact same rate they're knocked down, one end of the cascade will catch up with the other. It will probably need some sort of feedback system to account for this
@@hollt693 I know that the force required to cause something to release its stored potential energy can be less than the energy stored. I'm saying a domino can't hit the ground with more force than is required to set it up in the first place. Like in the small to big domino example, the big domino hits the ground so hard because more than that same amount of energy was used to set it up in the first place.
I always enjoy your builds. Especially when they combine my two hobbies into one. Great Job.
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8:02 I love the self-aware decent into madness as you realize you can tell if the machine is working properly just by touching it.
lol.
I’ve experienced something like this many times 😅
I love the circular infinite domino idea. It will have to be a very wide circle to give each arm enough time to reset the domino. Also, because the backstop for each domino is attached to the lever raising the domino in front of it, you may have issues with setting them up asynchronously
That is true. Certainly a hard problem to solve, but the video would be boring if it was easy.
@@GrantDavis According to my quick math, using 7 secs for a full cycle, and one domino unit being 16 lego "studs" big, 11:10 in the vid (12,8cm) and a falling speed of 15 per second , you need at minimum 105 units for a smooth loop, so a circle with a circumference of 13,44meters and a diameter of 4,3 meters and an angle of 3,4degrees per unit. So your current setup at 11:11 is already good enough to reach the minimum of 3,4degrees.
So you need 10x the amount that you currently have.
Gotta be really interesting how you gonna fix the synchronicty issue. each cycle the machine is gonna be a little bit out of sync, and building too early or too late.
Apparently with lego mindstorms you can toggle motor speed and have pressure sensors, so maybe with that.
@@GrantDavis make circular version with two falling dominos on opposite sides
@@looserkidful Yeah need a way to detect when the piece falling in some way, or it'll go out of sync quickly. Wonder if there are mechanical shortcuts that don't use pressure sensors and (electronically?) alters speed. Maybe can have the falling domino engage the gears in some way, and then have the lifting up cycle disengage the gears again at the end of the cycle. Each unit would be a bit like that box with a single switch that opens and flips the switch back.
@@ChristofferFlensburg Do you need to detect at all? The individual pieces that push up the dominos are attached to gears, no? Set them up in different stages of the process, so they all work at the same pace, but at different times. Assuming you can rotate the gears to even work in a circle like that. If not, you would have to have motors for each individual section of the loop.
would be really interesting to see how this scales into a circle, and how you get past the issues involved
1:05 oh I actually have those! My dad still has the parts from his old Lego train sets, and those magnets are a part of those! They work pretty well, surprisingly. At least better than what I expected from 40 year old Lego magnets
The beginning made it look like an easy contraption lol
Grant! I remember debating you in NCFCA. We were at a tournament and your mom showed me your pirate cove video. Very impressive. Your trial and error approach was very interesting, thanks for showing all your mistakes, it makes the video so much more interesting. Glad to see you are still building! Keep it up!
Wow this channel is tremendously underrated. You are going places!
Had me attached all the way through, and did I mention how smooth that sponsor plug at the end was!
Amazing
Thanks! I am hoping it is just a matter of time before I go full time as a RUclipsr
@@GrantDavis Awesome work man keep it up, no doubt you'll get there!
Those places might be in circles but definitely places.
This needs to be a set, I would buy it in a heartbeat
I really love your style of commentary. You throw in enough humor and intrigue to make it interesting without overdoing it. So many RUclipsrs constantly sound like they are trying to convince you that their content is amazing. That gets old really fast. This video was great! Nice job!
1:31 i did indeed remember Coulomb's law F = kq1q2/r^2 where k is 9x10^9 nm^2/c^2 q1 and q2 are the charges and r is the distance seperating them
keep in mind that k is actually equal to 1/(9x10^-12x4π)
yo, future me there, aparently k is both 9x10^9 and 1/(9x10^-12x4π). i dont remember why i thought otherwise lol
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Even just the linear version of this would make a stunning piece on a coffee table or workspace. Its absolutely beautiful in terms of design and i love the doors that hide the mechanism. I would buy this to make one myself or even the 2.0 version thats circular. 10/10
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I’m surprised there’s someone who actually does the prize thing. All I’ve been seeing is telegram scams from impersonators.
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The magnet trick is actually genius. There are some next-level techniques on display here.
This guy needs to be hired for Lego he’s a genius
I don't want to move to Denmark sadly ;(
i agree! this must of took AGES to build.
@@AvengerDCFan13 agreed
This Lego must be a genius because he's hired guy!
@@GrantDavis just build Denmark at home so Lego will move to you instead.
This is amazing! It felt like watching a Mark Rober video. I‘m looking forward to more videos in this style! And I‘m really interested to see if you can actually make this machine into an infinite circle. Thinking about it it should be doable by just adjusting the timing of the different segments, you just need a decent bit of space for the full circle, and of course quite a few more pieces ;)
I am amazed at how creative the creators on RUclips are I would have never thought about designing this
This is awesome! Can we all just appreciate the hard work put in to make this? :)
I’d love to see a circular version, /i think you are going to find it might be a lot harder than you think 😊 Waiting for a video in 6 months to a year explaining why it is so hard haha Good luck!
Make modules, and tilt them. Even make them 90 deegree.
In this video, the 10 dominoes take about 1 second to fall and about 6 seconds to reset. that means a circular loop will need to be at least 70 dominoes long if everything else is unchanged.
I‘d love to see the infinitely falling domino-circle! That’s awesome!
I love how you dedicate into this lego work of dominoes, it's fascinating and amiable. And you share some really useful and educational sponsors. You are awesome!
ooo i cant wait for the infinite circle version! THIS IS ALREADY SO AWESOME!!
Timeworks?
I was here before this had 1 million views! Great job man!
I'm so glad i discovered this video, it was one of the most fun things i've seen this week
Grant - this is so cool. Hope you keep making and posting awesome Lego creations for years to come!
Legos are amazing. Waiting for the day when someone builds a life size functioning rocketship out of legos.
This is so good! I love endless loop mechanisms. Well done:)
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This is really insane, I love how you used the magnets. Also very nice job on the video in general.
4:38 the first three rubber bands sound like the Windows 11 start up, btw great video!
it does lmao
This is amazing! Also i have a suggestion. Can you make a working waterfall and a working river that leads to the waterfall? its okay if you don't wanna add a working flowing river this lego engineering is great so far!
That will come eventually. Solving the problem of flow is the big issue - most LEGO waterfalls mostly look like LEGO rain.
Having an infinite loop of dominos that self righted themselves to continue the ring would be epic.
This is so cool! Thanks for putting all that time into it!! I'd love to see the infinite domino circle version! Liked and sharing!!!
I can’t wait for that infinite loop of dominoes. +1 subscription. This is truly one of the best Lego projects I have ever seen.
If Mark Rober sees this, he'll either try to revamp his machine to double your current, or he'll bring a friend to watch it for 24 hours straight to let you break his record
This is mad cool, my friend.
I once was that fallen Domino, but mighty Grant has carefully uplifted me. His magnetic metaphysical skills have changed my life in world record time!
So True 😭
I absolutely love this
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Dang, how did I only just now find you're channel? This is the coolest lego art engineering build I've found so far!
The combination of aesthetic and functionality is amazing
Well, this is really my first video like this, so that might be why. More to come!
8:30 I felt that in my soul. I especially get that feeling when I disassemble a car engine, put it back together and then turn the key for the first time. Arghhhhh leeeeeets goooo! Mutha. farker. take that 🤛 and that 🤜 yeewwwwww! 🙆♂️
I came here expecting infinite pizza. Who is this LEGO guy and why does he like knocking things down and putting them back up.
4:34 This mechanism is called a Schmitt Trigger. It is actually used in almost every switch or button to reduce arcing, because if it wasn't used, it would be like when you hold it in the middle and the lights flicker, but every time you press it. Your light switches have these, the switches of your power bars have these, and especially the switches of your breakers have some! They are a must-have when switching high voltages or currents, and a nice thing to have otherwise, like in (most) keyboards. Also they sound better. Some switches literally have this exact mechanism (but without the purple part). It is also a thing in electronics, where the input voltage must be above a certain threshold to switch it on, or below a different threshold. Exactly like its mechanical counterpart!
TLDR: The thing in switches or buttons that make that click clack sound and make it hard to get the lights to flicker.
Something you should be aware of before starting on the infinite loop is that you need to be able to pick them up as fast as they fall or else it will eventually fail.
no shit
0:09 bro knew what was going to happen, and still got scared💀💀
I’d love to see a circular, infinitely-looping version!
You should make a lego calculator with the door mechanism as binary inputs 5:44
I'm sure that this has already been said, but just in case it hasn't here it is:
On the next version, you might be able to use axels to transmit power a lot cleaner and easier than a bulky gear train. If you give each section their own gearbox, this means they can take a faster rotation speed that's transmitted down the line by the motor and turn it into the torque required to lift the domino. Increasing torque could also come in a redesign of the mechanism to add a movement farther upwards on the domino's bottom side. By increasing the distance of the lever arm, you use length instead of strength (since it becomes easier to turn something when lever arm is further from the pivot point/fulcrum), saving the transmission some strain.
What do I know though. I'm just a dog on the internet :3
He started out using an axel, he had to switch to a gearbox train despite not wanting to. Look at 6:00.
@@cetomedo or maybe he doesn't have that many worm gearboxes laying around
@@Rivenwolf_2 Did you look at the timestamp? The axels acted as a rotational spring. Even broke a gear.
@@cetomedo they wct as a spring since they are not solid enough to overcome torque required to lift the Domino. However, if instead of transferring more torque than rotational energy, he used a gearbox to translate the high-speed & low-torque output of the motor to a gearbox at each segment that translates it to low-speed & high torque. This would allow the axle to be under less torque-stress and be less "springy"
It was truly epic to see all the work you put into this. Amazing work as always!
1:00 the magnets where part of the Lego system Aquazone sets. too around the 90s
i LOVE the narration "You can see the moment of the betrayal, here", 3:54 / 12:36
Amazing work as always, Grant!
I love this, Grant! It was well worth all the hard work.
This is probably the best example of using Lego in a project I've seen so far on YT, the fact that you used magnets, this is a really unique project, you should go AGT with this!
AGT?
@@GrantDavis America's got talent? Maybe
if you think this is impressive, you should look at brick technology's channel. theyve made engines out of lego and a lot more
The newer LEGO trains use a different flip-flop magnetic coupling that is superior to the old one, so there are a lot of those old-style magnets for sale. However, I never would have thought to use them for proper alignment of dominos!
This is so cool! Fun to see that you've went through great lengths to get it all working!
Woah this is cool.
Love this.
I'm so excited to see the loop version! That would be super satisfying!
Lego's have changed since I was 7. Having worked in the automotive powertrain division (years later) the work completed there was often tested using mini models made from wood scrap. Everything begins with a blank sheet of paper and develops from there. Very cool Lego contraptions. I think I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas. 🙂
This has absolutely BLOWN MY MIND! You and Jason Alleman are total legends when it comes to these sorts of things, and this may be my favorite kinetic model yet! Great work! :D
5:09 designing redstone doors in a nutshell
Man, this is SO COOL! Well done on the World Record! 🌎🎉
Duuude you‘re incredible!!
4:32 pov: how the windows 11 startup sound was made
Ah this is a wonderful design, and a great example of what creativity can achieve!
I'm just wondering if the lifting arm design is that efficient. Since you have the stop at the bottom in place, isn't it now possible to more efficiently push the brick at a 90° angle? That would remove torsional forces that are currently loading the lifting arm down, which means the arm shouldn't bind and strain as much! :)
Not quite sure what you mean about the stop at the bottom in place. I am sure that there are other mechanisms that would lift these better with a better angle for max force, however, I doubt that there are many as compact as this one. I didn't mention it in the video, but I wanted the base to be only half of the height of the domino - I just think it is much more impressive.
I’ve always loved legos, especially when growing up. Just recently have I decided to get back into the hobby, since I wasn’t able to when I moved as I had left all my Lego at my mums house. Just coming back to watching others build with Lego on RUclips has really made my year. You did an amazing job with the build! It makes me so proud to enjoy this stuff as much as I do! And I can’t wait to get back into it! (My mums finally shipping my collection at the end of this year)
Magnets are so dope!!!! 8:45
Amazing build! I’m so happy I found your channel
10:07 Your record didn't last long. Have you seen the one by JK Brickworks that does 2,160,000 dominos a day?
Yes, I saw a work in progress of his machine a few months ago actually. Jason and I are good friends.
10:38
the 891K+ people who watched this video:
OMG this was awesome kind of if Studson Studio did Lego. love the video style
Out of over 3,000 comments, you are the first person to notice the style similarity. I LOVE STUDSON, and I decided about 6 months ago that making my videos in a similar style to him was what I wanted to do. Studson is a legend.
I love your engineering, but the cam being used upside down at 2:38 really annoyed me for some reason lol. Either way, really cool build!
I think it was used for extra leverage, but it was after all one of my rejected designs! 😝
@@GrantDavis Fair. There’s a rule of combat outlined in the academic book “How to make War”, which I feel bears repeating:
RULE 4- “If It’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.”
In my experience, this phrase also works for Engineering.
Either way, awesome job, and love the vid!
8:58 TIME TRAVEL!
DOMINOS!
1:43 -- "bolth"
2:13
I blame that on my west coast hippy accent.
4:06
Awesome! Really looking forward to the infinite loop idea. I guess this would require to be so large that when the effect started, the cascade must take so long to complete the loop so that the dominoes can be set up before the cascade hits them again. Would certainly be a crazy thing to watch :D
where have you gone? Its been a year!
I posted a short 2 days ago, does that count? Short answer is I got married and moved 3 times. Lots of life happening, but I am still LEGOing behind the scenes
@@GrantDavis Epik
Was that on purpose 1:19
My words were added afterwards, but I actually accidentally placed that tile down when building.
I say you should submit this on Lego ideas
i love eggs :)
Eggs are bad mmkay
Such a crazy and cool idea! Congrats on pushing through to getting it to where it works so seamlessly, and I'm excited to see where you go with the curved setup, :D
And of course I like eggs - who doesn't? XP
Thanks Robert! Haha.