Spinning Lego Propellers
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2019
- Thrust testing some Lego propellers and rotor blades.
At the end I try to get a tandem helicopter build (externally powered) up in the air. Enjoy!
Tested parts:
-Propeller 2 Blade 9 Diameter [2952]
www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/...
-Technic Rotor Blade Large with 3L Liftarm Thick and Black Rubber Tip [99013pb01]
www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/...
-Propeller 1 Blade 14L with Two Pin Holes and Four Axles [89509]
www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/... - Věda a technologie
Dad: "What're u doing with ur engineering degree?"
Son: "ummmm"
Dad: *sees this masterpiece*
Son: Gods work.
Son:legos
Son: “tryin’ to make things fly”
@@cancerousboi216 Dad: what's "legos?" sounds like LEGO but a knock off?
Son: "Dad what're you doing with my Legos?"
Dad: "Engineering..."
“Can we get it in the air?”
Me: even more interested than before
He made a vid where he builds a drone with this
patrlim I know I saw it
You took the Words right out of my Mouth! Hey !
He's gonna invade the white house in a lego helicopter
Mathew well played. If I could give you a reddit silver, I would.
From someone with a degree in helicopter engineering, the fact you got that to fly with even a smidgeon of stability is seriously impressive.
Yeah,pretty cool,I am impressed.
Helicopter engineering degree sounds like some made up shit to me lol. Are you referring to an aerospace engineering degree?
@@cptairwolf No it isn't bs. There is a plane engineering degree too.
Can you explain why the thrust numbers look the way they do for the small prop? Doesn't seem to make any sense to me
How do you get into that field?
2030: "stopping the earths rotation using lego gyroscope"
hi catsalot you are a funny man
**sees 69 likes** *this is... perfection.*
@@Tr0lliPop Someone ruined it
@@user-nz8qr2ds1y well oof. we'll go for 420 then :D
if the earth's rotaition stop we
Land, water... and now air.
Next year:Drilling to the earth's core with Legos
Building a real-life _LEGO Space_ set... that works.
Lol
You know you've done an epic breakthrough with Legos when MIB agents knock on your door and conficate your Lego contraption 😎
*LEGO FLAMETHROWER*
go to hyperspace with legos 2078
Proof that LEGO parts can generate vertical lift. Now we need some way to build a light and stable airfoil. LEGO planes are the future!
Lego planes can be customized too,ill guess we can get to see a variety of em
hackingpro not very much tho, also they would be extremely inefficient due to the fact that you need to carry the batteries around as well
@@EggNuggets yeah, the power might be an issue. my point is that if i was trapped in a large enough lego warehouse, i could eventually escape
@@43615 Why'd you ever want to escape a large enough Lego warehouse, though?
@@43615 yeah, why would you? 😂
2:12 This feels like Kerbal Space Program, but in LEGO.
40th like?
Absolute chaos?
Oh your talking about the launch clamps
could not be overstated
Love this, my father paid the price of my experimental 10 year old self. One afternoon after building and making several attempts to get a lego helicopter off the ground, I had decided i just needed more rpms from the motor. First doubling my voltage and the tripling it. The prop exploded when I used a motor from a dremel tool... just as I was getting excited and said dad look... the helicopter was unstable but coming off the ground...... a huge piece of the prop flew hitting my father just above the eye, blood and cussing abound. The prop hit him with the sound notably similar to the sound a golfball might make..... the flying ninja sword of terror was not done.. as it flew across the room hitting my mother.... her response was heyyyyyy what was that.... she was engrossed in a TV show and unaware my father needed stitches. My dad half crying, half laughing, and bleeding so badly says son that needs work!!!! 2" scar above his left eye and a story he talked about often. I am now 35 and my father is gone, the torch has been passed to my 5 year old..... with more safety guidance.
Im sorry for your loss, he must have been a great and humourous father.
@@noshitbro3722 y the name tho 😶🌫️
"Sir this is a Wendy's?..."
Jesus you killed him
"Waaaaiiiit a second did you just teach me something about physics behind my back"
- Everyone
He wait a minute
the most I learned from this is faintly how to build a helicopter
Explain yourself
@@rodrigoalmendro3118 Okay, so every day I stick my foot into the toilet. I can't help myself.
OrangeC7 this isn’t physics
So, Aviation mechanic here. With that little bit that you were using the helicopter blades, that's an interesting tidbit of information. There's a sweet spot in your angle of attack, (The angle between the direction your relative air is moving and the airfoil [the blade]) around... 2-3 degrees where you'll produce the most thrust, though since those lego parts aren't the best aerodynamics-wise, you might have to seek it out.
Remember kids, steeper angles won't always make more push, the thinner you slice the air, the more efficient you get.
John Contreras learned somthing new today. Thanks.
Civil engineer here, idk what I will do with that info but it was delicious :D
I feel a lot of people don’t get this, an example for how important the angle is is, look at the blue knobs in a baron-58, they are for angling the blades, if the knobs are there they are important, these LEGO helicopters aren’t getting more lift because they should start with no angle and then the angle should rise with speed but go to normal angle when at max speed
Right. More lift you have, more drag you have too. It must be balance
Thanks boss.
“The numbers Jason, what do they mean?”
If it is 1:5
It means that per 5 rounds of a gear will make 1 eound of the other, also known as gear ratio
And the value in grams means the weight lifted by the propeller, called as Thrust Force
Gotcha ?
@@amarmkulkarni really, did you not... omg
I'm pretty sure its Mason
Mason*
@@s0up_r882 at least I want wrong
8:25 “We were on the verge of greatness, we were THIS close”
IT LITTERALLY WENT TO 0.0G???
Soooo close :(
*sees title
"How the hell can he get 2M views with watching a Lego propeller spin?"
*watches full video, fully engaged
"Oh"
I watch it solely because the sound of legos clicking is satisfying to me
@@Potatoler15 I agree, it's so mesmerizing
Lol
I had no idea all this could be done with Lego's...
I'm pretty much binge watching these videos lol
@@thepotatogod_- me too
The sounds of lego being put together is sooo satisfying
The entire video is an asmr
I think I just masterbated to the noise
@@gladiatormarcellus2078 same
The quiet *click*
It's not logos...
Imagine there was a tornado on the weather cast but it was him messing with lego.
😐
This made me laugh so hard. Thank you
2019:Lego rc copter
2029:Lego passenger plane
2039:Lego space shuttle
I see where this is going.....LEGO plane?
Or a Helicopter
Unless LEGO comes out with significantly higher energy-density batteries and/or motors, I've done enough testing to conclude with near absolute certainty that a self-contained, non-tethered, all-LEGO flying machine is impossible with currently available elements. (To be fair though, I haven't done any such testing since 2016)
@@meta_username well go ahead and try again
@@meta_username o
Or a Lego drone?
2050 kids be robbin Banks and their getaway would be a Lego helicopter
HEY
@@krystalicslill5402 hi
A lego*
@@Whatismusic123 ty bro
Legocopter :p
It’s really cool that the weight of the added gears affected how effective lift was. Really close margins
That crash at the end looked so violent in slow-mo! Haha
You are putting the propeller waayyy too high on the axle (loss of efficency/performance due to vibrations)
Fuck man it’s made of LEGO, this is probably as close to as good as it gets with the parts available, I’m positive this guy is aware of the limitations after all it’s LEGO not custom machines hardware
Also, a Quad System would improve mid air stability by a lot which would result in a stable x and z axis
@@rene3991 NEW! LEGO KAMOV Ka-27 "It actually lifts off the ground"
yes tru
@@smtlego did you watch until the end?
First I was like ”nah, no way he is getting enough lift with those”. Then came the adjustable power source. 😁
Same, once I saw that, I was like, alright, you might be able to now lmao
Aapeli Kähkönen what do you mean by "adjustable power source"?
It's adjustable and it provides power.
Prehistoricman the power pack then, fuckin spesh
What, the battery pack? An on/off button hardly constitutes as adjustable. Did you watch the whole video?
So this is what Alex Turner was talking about
Hmm... I don't get it..... Ill go look around the garden.
What?
I have never been more confused by an Arctic monkeys reference in my life
@@yoloers czcams.com/video/Z5vZovv8cPk/video.html
@@themartian1339 ooooooooooooooooh that makes sense LMAO
"Can we get it in the air?" * starts breathing hard *
Me at 10pm: I'll just watch one more youtube video.
Me at 3am: lego propellers
Rev_dude that’s me right now but at 4:10 am
@@vastholosgaming6632 I've reached the apex of youtube syndrome, it's 12:00PM
@@JonatasAdoM 1 day can happen but don't let CZcams affect your sleep it's dangerous to sleep bad.
Also It's hard as hell to return to previous routine of being sleep at night and productive at day
@@ArielLorusso I know, I've been like this for the past six months and I know the struggle it has been to come back to sleeping at a normal schedule. CZcams isn't helping but it isn't the cause.
Let it be a warning for those that doesn't regard sleeping as important.
@@JonatasAdoM nah im good with my 2pm wake up and 5 anm bedtime
5 years later: "Creating an interdimensional pocket with lego"
Succeeds and accidently brings the Combine to earth.
W
Seeing the legos fly brought a smile to my face. This was a dream of mine as a child.
2:04 - That made me laugh out loud
Yep. The Lego machine had a seizure.
This video reminded me of a dream when I was 5, DUDE THATS INSANE
don't worry, recently i have some predictions that ACTUALLY came true. but it was like a few seconds in the future.
@@rayzojams Deja vu
@@kr4zyy i know it sounds like a jojo stand, but it's really rare and happens sometimes. when you expect everything from everyone and anything, you can almost predict the unpredictable.
@Anatol no? it doesn't feel like i have already seen something. just look up what's deja vu
@@rayzojams I've had that happen to me as well, It's really cool to have that happen
Thanks BEC, answering the LEGO Technic questions thay no one asked. But now I can't wait for the answer!
I have the technic helicopter. Trust me, I asked the question. Now I know the answer.
Actually, Sariel asked about this once
Seeing the force double on the same prop with the long conversion really blew my mind. As always great content
It's really cool that lego propellers actually create lift like the real thing. Props to lego designers for making toy propellers actually aerodynamic.
Regular People: Lego is a toy for Kids
BEC:
.
BEC:
..
BEC:
...
BEC: makes Lego go airborne
BEC: ...
BEC: Hold my drink
BEC Brain: whats today’s LEGO experiment?
BEC: Flying
BEC Brain: but LEGO hasn’t made flying things before.. how’s that going to work?
BEC: Yes...
Edit: wow 5 likes.. thx guys..
What I always wanted my Lego does!
BEC: 107th LEGO airbourne division
Felix R 800th like for u
2 propellers is very unstable because when it rotates along the axis that the propellers don't affect then it will turn sideways and fall down. I think if you tried using 3 propellers you could get it to work. Loved your video. Cheers :)
nor whale explain how the chinook works then
Three are unstable either due to minor difference between properllers. Four properllers, active stabilization. That's why propelled stable flying devices are called quadrocopters.
@@RichardxXxGeorgi It's just so heavy that it would take more power to topple it over than the propellers can provide. This was also being done here by adding some weight with bricks but I think it would still work better with 3 propellers.
@@user-yb5cn3np5qYou're right. Now that i think of it building one with 4 out of legos would be easier too.
RichardxXxGeorgi Chinook is unstable at very best but high level of engineering helps. Search for chinook ground resonance to see what happens when things go wrong.
I like how he switched from a tiny propeller to huge helicopter blades
Lawnmower blades, but no sharp
Nobody :
CZcams Algorithmn : Let's watch this guy build every machine known to mankind using lego gears. Helicopter, paper shredder, particle accelerator, death ray gun, anti-matter explosive device. You name it, whatever you never look up before, ever.
I wanna see a lego death ray gun
Then i can use it on myself
"Helicopters? Shredders? A clock that will outlast everyone and everything you ever loved without making one full rotation? You want it? Its yours my friend, as long as you have enough Rupees"
@@thatoneguy3775 I have Rs 500 is that enough
Sorry @@04F , i can't give credit, why don't you come back when you're a little hmm... richer
" *Just Give Him Some Lego Bricks, And He Shall Move The Earth* "
Legomedes, Archilego
Hey, another cuber!
@@foreskinman2463 Eubricka!!
"i'm going to make a fan"
*10 minutes later*
"ayy shit my fan is flying"
in awe at the abysmal aerodynamic efficiency on those rotorblades tbh, though i’m not sure what pieces i’d use to build a reasonable airfoil either
Probably the best LEGO blades tho
Everyone gangsta until this guy makes a Lego remote control helicopter or plane
He made a drone, so close enough. lol
Lego drones seem cool until it crashes and falls into a thousand pieces
But you could rebuild it with ease!
Just glued it!
Tbh, he could probably build one
@Guys, I have the smallest clock Sure, there are many 3D printed drones out there made out of PLA or stronger ABS plastic (Lego is also ABS)
Glue
8:25
We were on the verge of greatness
We were *this* close
*Lego Deathstar plans intensifies*
WE JUST NEED GLUE
8:47 *And then we reached it.*
That whirr tho
8:11 sounds like Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder
2:05 me, going into 2020 trying to hold my life together
Helicopter: thousands of moving parts flying in loose formation and constantly trying to tear itself apart.
Wright brothers discovering the plane, ca. 1906, colorized
Santos Drummond*
This would be funnier if the brothers used propellers for the first plane.
@@klausbdl Santos-Dumont
Wtf they invented it not discovered it
@@blackarrow9034 Naw man, the Egyptians mastered the technology first; our boys merely stumbled across their schematics
2029: Creating lego transport helicopter for humans
2041: First world lego war
There already is a working lifesize Bugatti chiron ouz of lego
legos are too pure for qar
*B U I L D T H E H E L I C O P T E R*
...First? Oh no
hi some channel you are a funny comedian
I can see the time that is put in this and the pain sticking trial and error just to make it fly, wow i am really amaze
really cool demo of how more propellers or a bigger engine don't always mean better performance. the extra thrust you get isn't even enough to cover the weight you've added
Me: nay bruv, you can‘t get those to fly
Power adapter: hold my mf beer
Noah more like
hold my mf plug
If this could somehow work, Lego needs to make an RC helicopter set.
edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!!!!
yes
Imagine the crashes, you’d actually care if to be a good pilot
I thought it had one already.
Anyhoo, with two motors, yes it is possible to get legos fly just as long as they follow laws of aerodynamics.
@@OriruBastard bees dont
lego is really heavy tho, so they would beed entirely new parts
I have to say the best video I’ve ever seen that perfectly sums up the law of diminishing returns.
So cool when the scales were ticking down and you could see it trying to rise when they hit 0.0g
Wait...LEGO motors have built-in over current protectors?! These things are smarter than I thought...
Its good for them, i made a 4×4 crawler and took it to a very steep angle, the current protector saved 3 of 4 engines. The 4th one broke :(
Never opened one but its most likely a polyfuse or a ptc attached to the motor case
@@laharl2k I opened one from before the current Power Functions motors. Had a little PTC in it just as you described.
Him:
The lego man in the river: Finaly! they made the rescue helicopter!
😂😂Nice one!
HEEEEY!
BUILD THE HELICOPTER
AND OFF TO THE RESCUE
YOURE THE AUSTRONAUT THAT DONT LET ME WATCH MY VIDEOS CURSE YOU
Legend says he’s still waiting to be rescued
@@emanuel3596 yes
It’s cool to watch him do like actual useful experiments with probably unknowingly use the scientific method by like testing different variables recording it and keep testing until he gets wanted results. Wish we could have done stuff like this in school.
I love how basic principles of aerodynamics are so clearly shown in your video! I found myself guessing what results your modifications might have and it was really satisfying to get the right almost every time, but purely because the aerodynamic theory was reflected spot on! ☺️ thanks for sharing this! ☺️
Rare 1920s footage of early helicopters
Didn't he invent helicopters
CANCEROUS BOI r/woosh
@@raymondkuai8142 r/woooosh
@@cancerousboi216 i hate doing this, but we need to r/woooosh you all the way to darned hell
I ment he invented helis as a joke
I love how you can see the rolling shutter effect on the large fan blades. 10/10
I love how the BEC guy can make drones and tanks with what he’s got.
Truly! This is a good experiment, can be applied in the flycam industry.
9:53 it somehow sounds like a plane is going down, it's like you're in a forest at night and then you hear this distant sound of a propeller plane crashing down somewhere or it had an aerial breakup
Its also remind sound when you defeat ender dragon
lol you are both right. and it sounds kinda like a lower på pitch sirenhead
no, it's the sound of a Ju 87 Stuka german dive bomber's Jericho Sirens, planes don't create that sound when diving/crashing, only the Stuka can do that artificially cause hitler put those Jericho sirens on it. it's only a movie thing of putting the siren sound to diving aircraft so yeah planes don't make that sound
like a turboprop plane
Nobody:
Brick Experimental Channel: *builds a Lego bicopter and makes it fly*
The other two types of blades I was unaware of. Still, this was entertaining and enlightening
Nobody:
Everybody: nobody
Lego drone next
Dead meme format is dead
you stole this
from r/dankmemes
I liked this and also all the optical illusions...Similar to wheels on a car giving the brief impression they're going backwards.
This man just built a collective control on a 4 blade rotor. After watching his other vids. This man is a Civil, P.E, mechanical, electrical, aeronautical, automotive, & marine(w/ a minor in plumbing) Engineer
Police: HANDS UP YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY
Me:
The boys: **pulls around with homemade Lego attack helicopter**
Police:welp,were screwed
A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO A RIVER IN THE CITY
H E Y
BUILD THE BRAND NEW HOMEMADE EDITION ATTACK HELICOPTER
H E Y
Real footage of Igor Sikorsky developing the first helicopter (colorized) September, 1939
The first heli was created in 1939? Dang!
@Eze&Yare Dominguez Not exactly but I get your point.
@Eze&Yare Dominguez but that was a glider
@@blitz2829 proof?
@@blitz2829 nope by slovakians
That is some beautiful rolling shutter.
I’m so glad there are human beings in the universe that are fun enough for this 😌
I came for the video but then became a lego fan
>Insert Spongebob laugh here<
AHAHAHAHH
it’s treason then
How many grams of thrust did you produce?
Came for the hentai stayed for the plot
I'm sure if you used some lubricant you could get the gears spinning even faster. Lego gears have a lot of friction and overheat very quickly at high RPMs. I learned first hand while making a propelled, controllable blimp for a NXT programming class back in high school.
Kurt Yarish
Sure but he still has a horrible power to weight ratio. Its still a brushed dc motor and a low power one too. If it were a 775 things would be different. I wonder if anyone has ever made a high power lego motor with a 3D printer. It doesnt look too hard to adapt.
Laharl Krichevskoy well thats completely missing the point if you would do that. It wouldnt be just lego anymore
at high rpms lego will just melt so not the best idea to get a high power motor @@NiliMoto
@@NiliMoto
It woudl still be lego, the mechanisms would be the same and would be completely compatible, the only difference is that the motor module would be DIY instead of by lego. If Lego were to release a high power motor tomorrow it would be the same, only diference being that it was made by lego.
So by your logic you cant make a functional lego helicopter only because legoo says so (because they havent made a more powerful motor)
If you were to make the UP house in legos and attach some helium baloons to it so it could float, it would still be the lego version of it, it doesnt matter the baloons werent made by lego, same goes for the motor imo.
Laharl Krichevskoy im not even gonna comment on that. „It would still be lego“ -> „the motor would be diy“ contradictory statements already...
You know, it's always videos like these that are the most interesting. This, marble Olympics, etc
4:00 works just like a fan
Next time you should try using the lubricant you've used before and maybe bust out the big boi motors.
Why doesn't this have 20K likes? 😱
Bust out and lubricant in one sentence without sexual context?
The Big Boi motors wouldnt lift it though. An they´re only slower
Gives you a feeling how powerful actual helicopters have to be, so they can lift so much additional weight.
It’s impossible that humans have achieved this level of genius
I am amazed at the quality of the Lego gears and blocks. Who else is with me?
Who would win:
The force of gravity
Or
Some blockie bois
Blockie bois
Well the force is really fucking weak soo...
Blockie Bois or BIG BLOCKIE BOIS???
If it's this guy is blockie bois
Bloickie bois not big
That variable pitch propeller is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen made of Lego
I absolutely adore this video and channel. Thank you!
Love how the last few seconds sound like old combat footage
That last slow-motion clip legit sounded like dive bombers dropping a payload off in the distance.
I never expected that could be possible
It's just.....incredible.....lol
You must be new then. This dude does crazy shit with Legos
This is a very satisfying complication when he puts the legos together
These types of experiments are cool.
I like watching your videos!
When the thing starts to fly but crashes right away
"I see this as an absolute win"
RawrXLR that's why we need a stabilizer attachment video
@@TungstenViper Then you need some control theory... which no one thinks is funny.
I doubt he's going to do that.
Now you'll need 1 flight controller, 4 brushed ESCs and a good LiPo battery.
Looking forward to your findings!
I can feel the wind coming off the propellers when he tries to get it in the air
Love those crunchy lego sounds
Any body else waiting to see shit fly away unexpectedly
Who doesn't?
No. This video was about Legos...not $h!t.
its not unexpected if youre waiting for it to happen
Yeah
Meh
I love this channel
Never thought to see you here haha
I hate this channel jk
Oof
@@Mega_Mash did you just reply to your reply pretending to be somebody else?
@@squidfresh3082 no lol
This is what I want to do. When I do stuff like that I feel like I am reinventing the helicopter. Such a great feeling
I love racing drones and I’d love to make a LEGO racing drone, not impossible now that I’ve seen this, love it🤙
you should atempt building a gearbox to switch cog ratios on the go, i think it would make for an awsome video
Yes GEARBOX!!!!!
But having unnecessary gears and connectors used will create more mass, and hence greater gravity to overcome with the lift force.
@@undead.rising not for this projekt, but as a projekt of its own
Waste of even more motor power.
How would you shift gears while the machine was airborne? That would require a full gearbox, not to mention another motor to shift said gearbox, or, god forbid, an automatic transmission; either option would just about double the weight of the craft.
Drone drone drone
MAKE A DRONE
lego drone video
No one ever tried that?
@@Bricks.Master.Builders Tried it. LEGO motors/batteries don't have a high enough energy density to be light enough for LEGO propellers to generate enough lift for a non-tethered machine.
@@meta_username a small 4s lipo should work.
I've seen lots of lego frames powered by RC plane/drone parts. But, Lego should release a few high powered Technic battery/motor kits that enable enthusiasts to take flight. The tech exists, I'm just not sure about the demand.
@@bradleyj.fortner2203the problem is that all these high power batteries aren't safe enough to the standard of Lego. Wrongly charging or connecting them could make them explode.
"DAMN WHY ISNT THAT THING FLYING"
-Every cell in my brain
You know something is fast when it starts to look like it's going in the opposite direction
Area 51 guards when only one guy shows up: :D
It's the BEC guy and his army of Lego vehicles: D:
XDD nice one
FBI: OPEN UP!!
This guy: *builds a giant one of these and flys away
FBI: *waiting until he make it and a then taking it down with Lego rocket launcher
Shoots at him with a pistol that shoots Legos, he makes a Lego escape tunnel, they call in the brick brigade😂😂.
@@sociallyinept7898 before reaching the guy, the guy have set lego traps. The same ones that are in my bedroom and i get hurt while walking on it 👀
@@kevinkhuy4300 hahaha
@@sociallyinept7898 Wasser ff tgv b2
I really like the edit man.No chit chi chat and straight to the point
Oh my god... you’re an absolute genius man 😊