in the high friction the wheels are interlocking with the surface. what you have made are lego ring gears. the next step is to make a planetary gearbox
I would say that the next step would be a proof of concept prototype, proving that the gears can reliably interlock and that the stress of being used as gears won't just break it. Then, we can reasonably begin to test things like a planetary gearbox, or for other experiments. If it works, this could be the beginning of a new layer of brick based lego engineering.
I always look at these videos as another way to invent the wheel (and why the Caveman minifig fits so well at the end). Never get tired at seeing what 5000 identical Lego pieces look like bent into a new wheel.
@@BrickBending I have an idea for you, What do you think about making a cone out of inverted slopes? I think it should be possible even in our 3 dimensional world.
@@darkdruidsvale It would work if you removed 3.141 bricks per layer on average which would mean breaking the helices by moving some of the bricks to the side by a peg.
2:30 As you bend the long strip to close the circle, you can hear the sound-speed increase as the internal stresses go up. Really cool sound, but also kind-of terrifying!
With the cylinder rolling on the track it seem that you may be able to make a cylinder roll on a fractionally larger cylinder - That's just where my mind went when watching. Thank you for the build.
You could also flatten the center of the track and only keep the outer railings, reducing friction significantly. In fact, the middle doesn't need to be there at all, just connect the rails with ties, and now you've built a railway! It should be very well, too.
@@BrickBending I was thinking with the staggered pattern, you could make zigzags. And maybe the zigzags can mesh? Technically they should have the same tooth pitch, so regardless of size they should be able to act like sprockets.
you need to UV test the orange bricks. I have found x5 different variations of bright orange. Some appearing bright yellow, orange, dark red, etc when exposed to UV/Black Light!
circles and sphere are actually pretty difficult they way you make them with lego, so i'm always impressed they don't just explode when you bend them or let them roll
If those circles are 50 bricks around, and every two layers is offset by a brick, then you'd need 100 total layers for each helix to wrap all the way. Just twenty layers more...
maybe interchange the orange and blue? the orange facing one way and the blue the other so that you can get the amount of bricks needed but keep the visual of the spirals?
When I was a kid, this is what you did with Lego. You built whatever your mind dreamt up. Lego wasn’t sold in kits designed to make this or that particular car or spaceship etc. It was simply sold by the quantity of pieces. A 50pcs set. A 100pcs set. 1000pcs etc. I had pretty much already grown out of Lego by the time the specialized kits came around but I always looked back at it as one of my favorite and educational toys growing up.
I grew up in the era of Lego sets and this is still how I used Legos. I would build whatever the set was supposed to be once, throw away the instructions and packaging, and cannibalize the pieces to make a space ship.
@@FL0ra_favvn “Sets” yes, with a picture on the box of a particular “thing” you could build, but that went out the window after the first day. I remember the pieces being much more rudimentary, without a bunch of specialized pieces, made for a particular project. The most specialized pieces I remember were the axle blocks (white) with the receiver holes to accept wheels. But those were still just a standardized 2x8 block. When we got a new “set”, it was unceremoniously dumped into the generic ‘mother box’ and the pieces went on to make a bigger, better whatever.
@psidvicious Oh, and the distinct sound of searching through the mother box that is so nostalgic, it instantly brings back to my childhood and I get lost in the building, in the search and I'm 12 yrs old again ! this crazy loud, shrill sound is something I have grown to love! "The Motherbox", I love it!
This was amazing to watch. It was great to hear your thought pattern and your explanation of your process and the limitations of the bricks. I'm sure i speak for others, I wish you would do a Q&A episode one day. Keep up the great work! I love seeing what you come up with next.
You know when, 5, 10, or if you're old like me, 15 years ago.. you would be up late at night browsing UA-cam then suddenly it occurs to you. Wait.. I'm in the weird section again. I had forgotten about that. Until now. Love this video! 💜
19:13 How did all these squares make a circle?! That doesn't even-! No, no, it's okay, it doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother me... It bothers me, IT BOTHERS ME A LOT *AND THAT ONE'S STILL MATE!*
I really like what you do. I also think that there has to be some kind of engineering that can be done. At this scale for large machines, at microscale for far parts like screws and planetary geers, and at the nanoscale for nanobots and molecular machines. I feel like this is serving as inspiration for some kid who will one day make the first human built flagellar motor or prehensile cilia. Sorry if my science terminology gets on the nerves. But I think it's important. Think about it though. If molecules could be put together in the right ways, with chirality, poles and electron exchange could be used to make a transmission for a multi speed molecular engine, would that not be amazing!
This is definitely my favorite Lego piece. I remember 1st seeing it around 1985 in an all red starter set my mom got me. It was used for the back of a tanker truck and matched with the top sloping piece. So weird that just the shape of a block can take me back there. Time to put Ghostbuster on the record player and build!
@@BrickBending I will be waiting paitently! (Actually it would be really funny to see doom run on an arduino with "mechanical" user inputs(really just levers and linkages that ultimately push a button))
If you took the blue "track" and made it a circle as well, when you mesh it with the yellow circle in the way that is NOT slippery, you would have a very large gear. And with the bricks alternating in and out on one or both circles, there could be some interesting properties of "crushing teeth" where openings would appear and disappear OR there should be a way to make gears that slipped sometimes and locked sometimes. And when I saw the alternating structure at first, it looked like a thread with a very slow change in angle. If you intersected an inner ring and an outer ring in the slippery direction, I think a thread like that would exert a tremendous force even with a small degree of rotation which could be interesting in a few ways, but maybe the best way would be to twist the "screw" a small amount and have it blow apart a seemingly large and strong structure surrounding it. Another thought would be changing the alternating pattern to something like 1 out and 4 or 5 in which might create something more like a normal "screw" where it takes more rotation to advance the screw.
Initially, I was unable to see the color difference when you were talking about it, but I spotted it just before you pointed out that one of the darker ones' position was inverted.
23:54 the studs bumping is only a hinderance If you’re relying on a single push. Just attach the circle to a motorized axel and now you essentially have a gear and rack, or a wheel with loads of traction.
I think it nicht look really cool if you put the yellow cylinder in the middle and prop up each of the concentric circles layer by layer, such that they form some sort of half sphere that encloses the yellow cylinder
I like how it rolls like it's on a track because It's Just perfect grooves lineup. You need to do some with multiple different colors per circle or cylinder I think you can make some cool art pieces like that.
I wonder if you could make two cylinders that interlock? The smaller one would be made of 1x2 blocks and 2x2 inverted slopes with 1 1x2 between every two slopes, the slopes pointing outwards, the larger would be the same except with 2 1x2 between every two slopes, the slopes pointing inwards. The number of slopes in the circumference should be the same. Place the smaller inside the larger, and hopefully their circumferences match up perfectly! You could try rolling it then, and the smaller cylinder inside the larger one should match its movement.
i like how the yellow one, when taller, could actually be used to convey loose things like bricks or sand up a slope by rolling it. the inside forms a sort of inverted Archimedes screw.
Nice! Thanks for the journey; an idea: earlier you build with 1 by 2 not only in a circle but while making the circle you also went up a stud; what should that do to the helix shape? Good luck!
If you were using the inherent gap between two by twos, you would cause no stress to the brick as long as you were using 182+2 by ones to make the circle
For the tall tube, putting lose lego plates on the inside could be an interesting effect, having them tumble up and down the helixes depending on the direction you are rolling it.
I wonder if you could align some wheels or cogs into the spiral tracks formed by the orange tube, with at least four points of contact, and make an "elevator" that spirals up and down the orange elevator shaft.
First time viewer here and the higher friction sort of wheel and track system and the way it skips with the studs could be used to make some interesting mechanisms. Something that slides a set distance over time like in the mechanism of a grandfather clock. Not a fully fleshed out idea but i bet you could make a cool mechanism with that.
16:11 Only got this far, very cool, I so want to go buy some bulk bricks now. Curious if they make a “clear” slope, add transparent colors to the 2x1 sticking outward, add a light into the ring, will the light carry to the colored brick. Or do they make transparent colored slopes, both up and down, and connect those around the outside with transparent 2x1 vertically.
What I really wanted to see is the concentric rings be made ever so slightly tighter so that the rail structures interlock. If each neighboring helix's chirality is different you should get relatively constant friction.
You could introduce some really cool patterns with the forward/backward bricks besides just the staircase pattern. A diamond pattern could be really nice, and might look like the famous Indian temple of stairs, Chand Baori. You could then introduce counter-patterns across the cylinder with colors instead in/out. The artistic potential is huge.
So I noticed that very basically you've made cylindrical helical gears... And I was thinking, you could, in theory, use sections of the pattern as well as sections of 1 by 2 cylinders... Along with some other techniques along with Technic to make a really cool large-scale Lego tunnel bore...
be back tomorrow @36:42 🍄😏😅😊 I want to wrap different colored rope or thick yarn, paracord could be interesting, into each channel or helix of the tower.. just to see.. also the flat sliding design could make for an interesting slide square if you added a flip down lock with the pieces in the locking direction. Could be a cool drawing table tool.. 🤷♂️ Love your work.. -edited for typos, apologies.. pe@ce
I absolutely could not see the difference between the two oranges (I am a bit colorblind, but I've never had issue with orange before) - _until_ the shot of that one that was out of place, then I could see it plain as day, before you even said anything. Eyes are so strange! You know what's NOT strange? How cool Lego circles are. The comment you mentioned doesn't know what they're talking about.
7:31 It'd be absolutely insane amount of bricks but if you measured the curve on that you could probably figure out how many Legos it would take to make it with a 2x2. Give it a shot?
with the way the studs bump against one another as seen at 23:50 would it then be possible to create a kinetic sculpture of sorts using this technique to create connected gears seeing as they function on the same principle?
would be cool if you only place the slope piece say every 4th spot in a ring, so it really highlights those spirals. OOOR randomly place them based on the digits of Pi so every x number based on the digit of pie faces inwards vs outwards. Might make for an interesting pattern.
I never saw this pattern as a staircase, I always saw it as a bunch of zig-zags next to each other, like if you alternated sides as you build up and down
How does this man have so many of the same part? I always struggled with finding like 30 or 40 of the same color and approximate shape for my random lego builds
I wonder how many layers you'd need before you had enough flexibility to form a torus. My guess is it would be impractical but that helix running around a torus would be impressive.
Can two rings link to each other only by slopy sides? Of course the rings would be needed to have a bit different radii for this. These two may also slide along like bearing rings. If it is doable, then it will be possible to add additional external ring and so on and finally build a tower with rotating "floors"
11:42, I've noticed some similar variation with the K'nex pieces I have. 18:41, Now you're thinking with portals. 1. Would making a circle with the diagonal studs of a 2 by 2 be too easy? 2. Could the same offset as the inverted slopes also work with 2 by 2 bricks?
Hey I was wondering where you got the gloves you use in these videos, I have hyperhidrosis which can make Lego building quite annoying for me when all my peices get covered in dirt and sweat lol. I've never been able to find nice tight fabric gloves like this, thanks for the awesome content ❤
in the high friction the wheels are interlocking with the surface. what you have made are lego ring gears. the next step is to make a planetary gearbox
I was thinking the same thing!
@@Trouvistsame!
Same
I would say that the next step would be a proof of concept prototype, proving that the gears can reliably interlock and that the stress of being used as gears won't just break it. Then, we can reasonably begin to test things like a planetary gearbox, or for other experiments. If it works, this could be the beginning of a new layer of brick based lego engineering.
Now you're thinking with portals
I was just *smiling in portals* .
Portal spoilers ahead:
If the cake is a lie, then what is the pie?
Saw the blue and orange and immediately thought that
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@@MaxwellCatAlphonk it’s a die
I always look at these videos as another way to invent the wheel (and why the Caveman minifig fits so well at the end). Never get tired at seeing what 5000 identical Lego pieces look like bent into a new wheel.
You and me both, my friend 🙌
@@BrickBending I have an idea for you,
What do you think about making a cone out of inverted slopes? I think it should be possible even in our 3 dimensional world.
I've never seen this channel before. I believe this gentleman is planning on going into the oil pipeline business.
@@a_block_of_ice_xD i was also thinking that, i feel like it could be possible, though it may not be as well
@@darkdruidsvale It would work if you removed 3.141 bricks per layer on average which would mean breaking the helices by moving some of the bricks to the side by a peg.
2:30 As you bend the long strip to close the circle, you can hear the sound-speed increase as the internal stresses go up. Really cool sound, but also kind-of terrifying!
The slightly transparent slopes are a good example of what subsurface scattering does for materials in 3D modeling.
yup. was going to comment this, the slightly brighter bricks diffuse light just a wee bit further down into the surface before reflecting back out.
With the cylinder rolling on the track it seem that you may be able to make a cylinder roll on a fractionally larger cylinder - That's just where my mind went when watching. Thank you for the build.
Cylinders upon cylinders. I love it.
You could also flatten the center of the track and only keep the outer railings, reducing friction significantly. In fact, the middle doesn't need to be there at all, just connect the rails with ties, and now you've built a railway! It should be very well, too.
@@BrickBending I was thinking with the staggered pattern, you could make zigzags. And maybe the zigzags can mesh? Technically they should have the same tooth pitch, so regardless of size they should be able to act like sprockets.
you need to UV test the orange bricks. I have found x5 different variations of bright orange. Some appearing bright yellow, orange, dark red, etc when exposed to UV/Black Light!
Iirc that is because of the different factories use different pigments to color the bricks.
oh don't mention that, you're evil hahahaha
circles and sphere are actually pretty difficult they way you make them with lego, so i'm always impressed they don't just explode when you bend them or let them roll
If those circles are 50 bricks around, and every two layers is offset by a brick, then you'd need 100 total layers for each helix to wrap all the way. Just twenty layers more...
I ran out. But we are on the same page.
@BrickBending I was fully prepared for you to bend that tube into a torus lmao
@@etheraelespeon1986sameee
maybe interchange the orange and blue? the orange facing one way and the blue the other so that you can get the amount of bricks needed but keep the visual of the spirals?
The factory probably ran out when they filled your order...
Oh that old white circle, the yellowing of the legos and the texture the bricks are making reminds me of bone. It looks like a spine.
I was thinking it looked like an ivory bracelet/necklace/ whatever
I like circles. Circles are nice. Minimalism is undervalued.
1staircase of 5 bricks
7 cases
14 doubled
28 doubled again
Circle: 56-sided polygon.
Oh my God he speaks
Therefore I am?
@BrickBending yeah. You didn't exist before today
When I was a kid, this is what you did with Lego. You built whatever your mind dreamt up. Lego wasn’t sold in kits designed to make this or that particular car or spaceship etc. It was simply sold by the quantity of pieces. A 50pcs set. A 100pcs set. 1000pcs etc. I had pretty much already grown out of Lego by the time the specialized kits came around but I always looked back at it as one of my favorite and educational toys growing up.
Yeah. And I dunno, there was something so pleasing about the bags of identically colored pieces you could get from the catalogue.
I grew up in the era of Lego sets and this is still how I used Legos. I would build whatever the set was supposed to be once, throw away the instructions and packaging, and cannibalize the pieces to make a space ship.
You do realise they only ever sold them in sets, right?
@@FL0ra_favvn “Sets” yes, with a picture on the box of a particular “thing” you could build, but that went out the window after the first day. I remember the pieces being much more rudimentary, without a bunch of specialized pieces, made for a particular project. The most specialized pieces I remember were the axle blocks (white) with the receiver holes to accept wheels. But those were still just a standardized 2x8 block. When we got a new “set”, it was unceremoniously dumped into the generic ‘mother box’ and the pieces went on to make a bigger, better whatever.
@psidvicious Oh, and the distinct sound of searching through the mother box that is so nostalgic, it instantly brings back to my childhood and I get lost in the building, in the search and I'm 12 yrs old again ! this crazy loud, shrill sound is something I have grown to love! "The Motherbox", I love it!
Love this ❤:
"...if you really want to build something, crazy, it just takes you ten years to prep."
😂
Aged like fine wine.
does that mean in 2034 the smaller circle will be reassembled into an even smaller circle?
@@ryuuguu01 hopefully
Awesome video!
Idea for your Magnum Opus: build 10 more of the final helix, stack them all up, and bend the long tube into a torus!
That would be a wheel made of wheels
The builds sometimes look like CGI, but with the imperfections of reality, they end up in an unusual, fascinating visual territory! Nice work!
These look like the beginning of a LEGO colosseum.
Now you need to make a full circle out of this, bend the circles into a circle :P
So many bricks
That final part was fantastic! The scale is epic. Love the true and patterns.
This was amazing to watch. It was great to hear your thought pattern and your explanation of your process and the limitations of the bricks. I'm sure i speak for others, I wish you would do a Q&A episode one day. Keep up the great work! I love seeing what you come up with next.
Thank you! And a great idea. I will ponder that.
@BrickBending, please do. I know i have a lot of questions, and I'm sure your other fans do as well. Please keep up the great work.
It's a beautiful example of what scale can do with a relatively simple idea.
You built tracks for your linear wall.
Is there a partner track for the orange monstrosity at the end? Perhaps a blue one?
That would make me so, so happy. Sadly, not yet.
Even just the first one looks like some kind of mysterious portal, I love when these designs are circular
That last piece was amazing, it reminds me of a TooL album.
You know when, 5, 10, or if you're old like me, 15 years ago.. you would be up late at night browsing UA-cam then suddenly it occurs to you. Wait.. I'm in the weird section again.
I had forgotten about that. Until now.
Love this video! 💜
19:13
How did all these squares make a circle?! That doesn't even-! No, no, it's okay, it doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother me... It bothers me, IT BOTHERS ME A LOT
*AND THAT ONE'S STILL MATE!*
19:04 such a great shot! Love it!
I really like what you do. I also think that there has to be some kind of engineering that can be done. At this scale for large machines, at microscale for far parts like screws and planetary geers, and at the nanoscale for nanobots and molecular machines. I feel like this is serving as inspiration for some kid who will one day make the first human built flagellar motor or prehensile cilia.
Sorry if my science terminology gets on the nerves. But I think it's important.
Think about it though. If molecules could be put together in the right ways, with chirality, poles and electron exchange could be used to make a transmission for a multi speed molecular engine, would that not be amazing!
Cool story bro
I am with you. I think there's something here about simplicity scaling up to complexity in wonderful and unpredictable ways. And, it's also beautiful.
This is definitely my favorite Lego piece. I remember 1st seeing it around 1985 in an all red starter set my mom got me. It was used for the back of a tanker truck and matched with the top sloping piece. So weird that just the shape of a block can take me back there. Time to put Ghostbuster on the record player and build!
If you used alternating inverted and normal slopes, you should be able to build a track with grooves that are smooth on both faces.
but then parts kf them would be interlocked as 2x2s. you’d have to alternate an inverted then a 1x2 then a regular slope
@@mcmonkey26 not if you make the slopes and inverteds attach all four to one of the other kind, then they act as very tall 2x1s
In this video, you taught me that we can invent machines made of LEGO.
I can't help but wonder what it would look like if you did a criss-cross pattern on the helix model?
Now take the circles and make a torus.
It takes 336 just for the first slant one; I wonder how many thousand it would take for a torus.
Phase 1: Does it circle? Phase 2: Does it torus?
@@BrickBending Phase 3: Can it run doom?
@@toxicbavariankitten I now have a new life goal
@@BrickBending I will be waiting paitently! (Actually it would be really funny to see doom run on an arduino with "mechanical" user inputs(really just levers and linkages that ultimately push a button))
17:00 wow this really starts to look like a woven basket. The spiraling symmetry is great!
If you took the blue "track" and made it a circle as well, when you mesh it with the yellow circle in the way that is NOT slippery, you would have a very large gear. And with the bricks alternating in and out on one or both circles, there could be some interesting properties of "crushing teeth" where openings would appear and disappear OR there should be a way to make gears that slipped sometimes and locked sometimes. And when I saw the alternating structure at first, it looked like a thread with a very slow change in angle. If you intersected an inner ring and an outer ring in the slippery direction, I think a thread like that would exert a tremendous force even with a small degree of rotation which could be interesting in a few ways, but maybe the best way would be to twist the "screw" a small amount and have it blow apart a seemingly large and strong structure surrounding it. Another thought would be changing the alternating pattern to something like 1 out and 4 or 5 in which might create something more like a normal "screw" where it takes more rotation to advance the screw.
Initially, I was unable to see the color difference when you were talking about it, but I spotted it just before you pointed out that one of the darker ones' position was inverted.
The giant yellow tube …. Reminds me of PEACH PIE !
it’s the color , the shadows , the repetition… take a look at fancy peach pie you’ll see
23:54 the studs bumping is only a hinderance If you’re relying on a single push. Just attach the circle to a motorized axel and now you essentially have a gear and rack, or a wheel with loads of traction.
I was thinking the same. Its avtually helpful to oave rhe way for giant dynamic models.
I think it nicht look really cool if you put the yellow cylinder in the middle and prop up each of the concentric circles layer by layer, such that they form some sort of half sphere that encloses the yellow cylinder
Awesome build! Love the color choice! What are the gloves you are using?
They are practice gloves for guitarists. Lots of options out there.
Thank you so much!!
I like how it rolls like it's on a track because It's Just perfect grooves lineup. You need to do some with multiple different colors per circle or cylinder I think you can make some cool art pieces like that.
Holy crap, that’s crazy man.
I wonder if you could make two cylinders that interlock? The smaller one would be made of 1x2 blocks and 2x2 inverted slopes with 1 1x2 between every two slopes, the slopes pointing outwards, the larger would be the same except with 2 1x2 between every two slopes, the slopes pointing inwards. The number of slopes in the circumference should be the same. Place the smaller inside the larger, and hopefully their circumferences match up perfectly! You could try rolling it then, and the smaller cylinder inside the larger one should match its movement.
My head hurts after watching...
Please do more :)
Hello! The lego copy-paste feature is proved to be useful. The blue ring on the blue track looks like a wave. Then blue and yellow lego stargate. Nice
It's nice now I can watch some of your videos with just my ears
my eyes have such long days
i like how the yellow one, when taller, could actually be used to convey loose things like bricks or sand up a slope by rolling it. the inside forms a sort of inverted Archimedes screw.
Nice! Thanks for the journey; an idea: earlier you build with 1 by 2 not only in a circle but while making the circle you also went up a stud; what should that do to the helix shape?
Good luck!
4:43 A platypus?
Perry the platypus??
I think it would be cool to see straight pieces connecting the inner pegs like some kind of crazy spider web.
31:15 OMG that’d be perfect for one of those you have to line up a pattern in the circles puzzles I’ve seen in TONS of video games.
If you were using the inherent gap between two by twos, you would cause no stress to the brick as long as you were using 182+2 by ones to make the circle
For the tall tube, putting lose lego plates on the inside could be an interesting effect, having them tumble up and down the helixes depending on the direction you are rolling it.
You got a weird obsession with legos... i love that :o
3:05 Euler's Disk moment
I wonder if you could align some wheels or cogs into the spiral tracks formed by the orange tube, with at least four points of contact, and make an "elevator" that spirals up and down the orange elevator shaft.
The slide at 24:23 was very satisfying.
First time viewer here and the higher friction sort of wheel and track system and the way it skips with the studs could be used to make some interesting mechanisms. Something that slides a set distance over time like in the mechanism of a grandfather clock. Not a fully fleshed out idea but i bet you could make a cool mechanism with that.
Just a circle? Just?! Circle is perfection, it has no short-corners XD
4000 bricks and you can still identify that one misplaced one at 36:55.
Where?
your videos are so appealing
16:11 Only got this far, very cool, I so want to go buy some bulk bricks now. Curious if they make a “clear” slope, add transparent colors to the 2x1 sticking outward, add a light into the ring, will the light carry to the colored brick. Or do they make transparent colored slopes, both up and down, and connect those around the outside with transparent 2x1 vertically.
What I really wanted to see is the concentric rings be made ever so slightly tighter so that the rail structures interlock. If each neighboring helix's chirality is different you should get relatively constant friction.
You could introduce some really cool patterns with the forward/backward bricks besides just the staircase pattern. A diamond pattern could be really nice, and might look like the famous Indian temple of stairs, Chand Baori. You could then introduce counter-patterns across the cylinder with colors instead in/out. The artistic potential is huge.
Alternate 2x2 rooftop bricks, with these 2x2 inverted bricks for the next alliteration!
if you had a circle with only some of the slopes facing outwards you could make them into little platforms for minifigs
"All these legos make a circle. All these legos make a circle. All these legos make a circle. All these legos make a circle"
i like that your builds grow exponentially
i could totaly see this being the perfect way to make a large scale functional lego rc tank
Amazing ❤❤❤
Thank you
So I noticed that very basically you've made cylindrical helical gears...
And I was thinking, you could, in theory, use sections of the pattern as well as sections of 1 by 2 cylinders...
Along with some other techniques along with Technic to make a really cool large-scale Lego tunnel bore...
be back tomorrow @36:42 🍄😏😅😊
I want to wrap different colored rope or thick yarn, paracord could be interesting, into each channel or helix of the tower.. just to see..
also the flat sliding design could make for an interesting slide square if you added a flip down lock with the pieces in the locking direction. Could be a cool drawing table tool.. 🤷♂️
Love your work..
-edited for typos, apologies.. pe@ce
I absolutely could not see the difference between the two oranges (I am a bit colorblind, but I've never had issue with orange before) - _until_ the shot of that one that was out of place, then I could see it plain as day, before you even said anything. Eyes are so strange!
You know what's NOT strange? How cool Lego circles are. The comment you mentioned doesn't know what they're talking about.
If you could lay the final cylinder on a set of wheels powered by a motor to rotate it the swirling image on the inside would look mesmerising! 😵💫
No way! You made a Euler's ring from them. Just as I was thinking about it... and it held together!
Lego CNC machines just became a reality.
The individual slope pieces are not chiral, but the total builds with the helix structures are.
To really show the helix you could do one off color piece per layer!
I will never get tired of these videos! This was so cool! Thank you 🙏🏻 🤘🏻🤘🏻✌🏻
You are welcome! I'm very glad you enjoyed it 😁🙏
7:31
It'd be absolutely insane amount of bricks but if you measured the curve on that you could probably figure out how many Legos it would take to make it with a 2x2.
Give it a shot?
with the way the studs bump against one another as seen at 23:50 would it then be possible to create a kinetic sculpture of sorts using this technique to create connected gears seeing as they function on the same principle?
would be cool if you only place the slope piece say every 4th spot in a ring, so it really highlights those spirals. OOOR randomly place them based on the digits of Pi so every x number based on the digit of pie faces inwards vs outwards. Might make for an interesting pattern.
You are next level dreaming. I love it!
@BrickBending haha I've have been told I can be quite the idea generator. Tend to have out of the box ideas, if you ever need any just let me know!!
I never saw this pattern as a staircase, I always saw it as a bunch of zig-zags next to each other, like if you alternated sides as you build up and down
“I’m gonna be honest folks, we’re just throwing science against the wall and seeing what sticks”
How does this man have so many of the same part? I always struggled with finding like 30 or 40 of the same color and approximate shape for my random lego builds
What about to put 1x1 round cylinders on the outside of the orange circle? And maybe in different colours to make even one more pattern.
There is such great beauty in life
The next step is to build your own custom music box with the pieces sticking out of the cylinder playing notes on a metal pin instrument.
34:10 Instead of joining rings together, would it be easier to just start with a base of 3 or 4 layers, then build up brick-by-brick from there?
All these squares make a circle... AND THAT ONE'S STILL GREEN!
I wonder how many layers you'd need before you had enough flexibility to form a torus. My guess is it would be impractical but that helix running around a torus would be impressive.
sooo satisfying ❤
7:20 so... there IS give in a 2x2 wall. Which means you could build a circle out of it. How big would it have to be? 1 km?
Love the long format
Can two rings link to each other only by slopy sides? Of course the rings would be needed to have a bit different radii for this. These two may also slide along like bearing rings. If it is doable, then it will be possible to add additional external ring and so on and finally build a tower with rotating "floors"
I keep imagining one of them breaks and it send legos flying like a plastic claymore
11:42, I've noticed some similar variation with the K'nex pieces I have.
18:41, Now you're thinking with portals.
1. Would making a circle with the diagonal studs of a 2 by 2 be too easy?
2. Could the same offset as the inverted slopes also work with 2 by 2 bricks?
It's an O'Neill cylinder - a space habitat!
Hey I was wondering where you got the gloves you use in these videos, I have hyperhidrosis which can make Lego building quite annoying for me when all my peices get covered in dirt and sweat lol. I've never been able to find nice tight fabric gloves like this, thanks for the awesome content ❤