Infinite LEGO Domino Machine (World Record)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 18. 11. 2022
- I kinda went insane once this finally started working.
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This is just the beginning of what I have planned for this channel. It has been about 6 months since I have posted a video, but I have spent most of that time learning about video production and developing processes that will make my videos go faster in the future. Though I am still working full time, I have a giant list of amazing creations that I want to build and I wonât let something like a lack of time distract me from that. Dominos are just the tip of the iceberg!
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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!
YO BEYOND THE BRICK IS HERE AND IM FIRST
Thanks John/Joshua
@@GrantDavisIâm wet thinking about the circular version
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WHAT, BEYOND THE BRICK IS HERE???
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.
I am Iron Man
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Haha rail, simplicity
He is iron man
@@GrantDavis waw he iron man
I don't usually subscribe after just one video, but you instantly earned my subscription with this
This is high praise. Thank you sir.
Same
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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!
Oh hey bobby
Wow hey. Fancy seeing you here.
Do it again but make the dominoes out of âWewdâ
Oooh another youtuber I like
oh hey mark
Brilliant work, dude! Love all the innovative solutions you have going on, and it works so smoothly in the end. Infinitely satisfying!
Hey there Jason!
yooo its you love your lego content
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All he needs now is your Domino machine. Only Mega sized. đ đ€Ł
BEHOLD!
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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Here you go
JK Brickworks actually did it
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wow this is a lego and engineering marvel đ€Ż absolutely brilliant! the magnet idea to keep the dominoes in place was very smart. I wish I could do this with my own ârealâ domino projects haha (also it was nice to see my video briefly at 0:14 đ) 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 đ )! Now I just need Mark to see this video... đ. Thanks for stopping by Lily!
Have y'all seen this actual Infinite Lego Domino machine by JK Brickworks? czcams.com/video/IQhgiL3TqYQ/video.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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Your commitment to making this happen has been incredible to watch. The build is mind-boggling! Well done.
Your noob
You! I know you! And yes I agree
hey cheesy im subbed to you love your lego minecraft world
Pleasure seeing you here
@@myman8278 why?
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
Love your content
sacred whatchu doin here
@@TheJoMustGoOn NNN
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you.
@@guh7929 Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie
And hurt you
SIR I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL, I NEVER COMMENT BUT PLEASE PLEASE BY EVERYTHING HOLY GOODNESS DONT STOP UPLOADING, YOU ACTUALLY MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING FOR :D
This comment means so much to me. I might not be able to post again for a couple of months, but thank you for the encouragement. I WILL NOT STOP UPLOADING!
This needs to be a set, I would buy it in a heartbeat
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 hasnât 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 đ
Almost a million views now
@@MrDumbo-sf1jc lol
Well here we are now
His cheer of happiness after his hard work payed off at 6:38 is so adorable and it makes me so happy đ„șđ
I'm so excited to see the loop version! That would be super satisfying!
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!
hey hows the cmf series 23 city coming along
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.
The magnet trick is actually genius. There are some next-level techniques on display here.
You should make a lego calculator with the door mechanism as binary inputs 5:44
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!
No 's' in lego
I think I need the energy of âitâs time to make betrayal illegalâ in more of my problem solving. Amazing build, and congrats on taming the magnet criminals!
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This is amazing...
Can't wait to see other versions!!
This was actually incredible to watch. Loved your editing/video format too!
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What currency is it? Like American or what?
But thatâs really cool đ
Done đ
@@JOSHSLEGO also those pieces do look like eggs
sure :DDDDDD
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.
Iâve experienced something like this many times đ
5:09 designing redstone doors in a nutshell
I absolutely love this
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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.
This is so cool! Fun to see that you've went through great lengths to get it all working!
4:32 pov: how the windows 11 startup sound was made
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.
Seeing the whole process was awesome! Way to go! đđ»
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.
You are an inspiring engineer, this is so amazing!! Looking forward to what you make next.
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.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ not needed when lego
â@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChristsilence we go to the church of Lego now
4:38 the first three rubber bands sound like the Windows 11 start up, btw great video!
it does lmao
circular version needs to have adjustable timing so it can make all dominoes fall at the same time or make them continually fall in waves and frequencies, while some are faling, others already rise etc
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. đ
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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Iâm surprised thereâs someone who actually does the prize thing. All Iâve been seeing is telegram scams from impersonators.
@@kms4829 yeah i didnt even know there was a prize till Grant had contacted me! Thanks again Grant!
This guy needs to be hired for Lego heâs 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 video fulfilled my wish i never knew i had. Thank you. Really looking forward to the circular version
Looking forward to that loop. Great job!
I always enjoy your builds. Especially when they combine my two hobbies into one. Great Job.
Woah this is cool.
Very much looking forward to getting the instructions for this.
Man, this is SO COOL! Well done on the World Record! đđ
The beginning made it look like an easy contraption lol
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 CZcamsr
@@GrantDavis Awesome work man keep it up, no doubt you'll get there!
Those places might be in circles but definitely places.
this is by far the coolest thing i have ever seen someone build with lego
I like eggs.
Nice
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@@MiguelPerez-og9gv the creator of the video?????
@@UndyingPLAYZ73 no
Love this.
This is amazing! It felt like watching a Mark Rober video. Iâm looking forward to more videos in this style! And Iâm 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 ;)
This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing the process! It's cool to see the other things you've built as well, but hearing you talk through the process and working through unexpected problems is super neat. #appreciativenerding
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
would be really interesting to see how this scales into a circle, and how you get past the issues involved
I really love your style of commentary. You throw in enough humor and intrigue to make it interesting without overdoing it. So many CZcamsrs 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!
I am so looking forward to see the instructions!
I love how nerdy this is. I'm not a geek but I was definitely geeking out. Awesome video
Iâd love to see a circular version, /i think you are going to find it might be a lot harder than you think đ 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.
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!
Amazing content can't wait until I start purchasing technic sets and start creating awesome stuff from lego!
Dude! This is one wicked build! You've earned another sub!
I'm so glad i discovered this video, it was one of the most fun things i've seen this week
This is mad cool, my friend.
Legos are amazing. Waiting for the day when someone builds a life size functioning rocketship out of legos.
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! đ
@@GrantDavis Fair. Thereâs a rule of combat outlined in the academic book âHow to make Warâ, which I feel bears repeating:
RULE 4- âIf Itâs stupid and it works, itâs not stupid.â
In my experience, this phrase also works for Engineering.
Either way, awesome job, and love the vid!
This is so good! I love endless loop mechanisms. Well done:)
I am amazed at how creative the creators on CZcams are I would have never thought about designing this
Lego should start making these types of sets
i love the background music and how he explains everything
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!
Grant - this is so cool. Hope you keep making and posting awesome Lego creations for years to come!
This is really insane, I love how you used the magnets. Also very nice job on the video in general.
I was here before this had 1 million views! Great job man!
8:17 that's more relatable than i would like it to be, said that too many times when i used to mess with arduino
This brought back childhood memories. My dad gave me his old lego when I was a child including these old trains with the magnets and the blue tracks
I kept writing LEGO for years to bring the train sets to the US. They finally brought them in when I was 18 and had moved on to programming home computers and had no money for LEGO sets. Same with the Castle sets. All this cool stuff came out once I was "too old" to still be into LEGOs. SMH.
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 đ€ and that đ€ yeewwwwww! đââïž
Iâd love to see the infinitely falling domino-circle! Thatâs awesome!
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.
Yes, the axles are very springy. I used them as torsion bars in a Lego tank I built. Still springy, 10+ years later.
It was truly epic to see all the work you put into this. Amazing work as always!
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 đ
A scissor lift was one of the alt design options on the back of the box for the Farm Tractor set from the late 1970's or maybe it was one of the Expert Builder Idea books.
Coulombs law is used in electrostatics, non-moving electric charge. Magnets are dipoles not monopoles, You can model magnets as dipoles of charge and if I recall correct I think it's something like an 1/r^4 relationship.
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!
Best video I've seen all month. Your 4 months of effort were not in vain.
i LOVE the narration "You can see the moment of the betrayal, here", 3:54 / 12:36
I canât wait for the infinite âŸïž loop! There are no videoâs of such a version on CZcams. Amazing job â€
I canât wait for that infinite loop of dominoes. +1 subscription. This is truly one of the best Lego projects I have ever seen.
I love this, Grant! It was well worth all the hard work.
just found your channel gonna watch this all weekend
Thanks! My other videos are not as good as you may be hoping though...
coulombâs law is about static electric charges, not magnets.
of course, the fact that force is inversely related to distance between them is still true of magnets, but the exact formula is different and more complicated (and dependent on the exact geometry of the magnetic fields generated)
Impressive! It was interesting to see all that went into getting the final result. Brilliant!
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!
Cool video. One note, which I hope that someone has already pointed out: Coulomb's law only applies in the case of stationary electrically charged particles and not magnets, calculating the force between 2 magnets (which both probably are electrically neutral) is somewhat more complicated.
Awesome! Keep it up, my dude.
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
Eggcellent. That was brilliant!