Can we reach the Speed of Sound with Lego? 767 MPH Tip Speed! 4k

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  • čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
  • Warning: High frequency sounds! Following on from the RPM test I attempt to reach the speed of sound using Lego Technic. Breaking the sound barrier!
    I’m using 39 Powered up L motors powered by 12 control+ smart hubs!
    Extremely fast spinning wheels with exploding Disks!
    Thanks for Watching :)
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  • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
    @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +1351

    Thank you for the positive response to the video everyone! I really appreciate it :)
    I’ve just figured away of getting much higher speeds! I feel silly for not even trying this before as i didn’t think it would work originally.
    I’ve just hit over 650mph tip speed so hopefully they’ll be a follow up video soon. Thank you

    • @rs37_
      @rs37_ Před 2 lety +14

      Wow, incredible, over 1000 km/h, thanks for the spoiler ;)

    • @Cole218
      @Cole218 Před 2 lety +5

      Try to make it lift off the ground

    • @nathansaldanha5445
      @nathansaldanha5445 Před 2 lety +3

      Brick Experiment Channel can go up to 19000 rpm!

    • @r3b0x91
      @r3b0x91 Před 2 lety +15

      @@nathansaldanha5445 He uses a modded Lego motor with the limiters removed and a stronger power supply instead of the Lego issued battery. This channel is strictly Lego.

    • @Mattiaeragiapreso
      @Mattiaeragiapreso Před 2 lety +11

      Sound speed is directly proportional to the square root of the absolute temperature (v = 20.05*sqrt(T) = 20.05*sqrt(t+273.15) ), therefore you can try this experiment in a colder environment. For example, the speed of sound at 20°C is 1235 km/h but at 0°C it is 1192 km/h, a little bit less (4%)
      I hope this can help you - maybe, in your next tests you can at least turn you air conditioning on :)

  • @joenagel6644
    @joenagel6644 Před 2 lety +6100

    Try a hard drive disk platter. They're kinda heavy but they're balanced really well. I think valve and the losses from it are what's holding you back

    • @ardwordcross5632
      @ardwordcross5632 Před 2 lety +422

      I think a CD or DVD could do as well

    • @Claptrax
      @Claptrax Před 2 lety +332

      @@ardwordcross5632 if you really wanna save weight use a mini disk

    • @Yishuu
      @Yishuu Před 2 lety +99

      69 likes and i don't wanna ruin it

    • @AiOinc1
      @AiOinc1 Před 2 lety +123

      I second this. They're also designed to rotate at high speed for long periods of time.
      Sadly they are designed to drag air with them (for the head stack) but it's worth a try

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +699

      Hi thanks for that Joe! I think the balance is the key like you say! I tried some really light paper and it did worse than the normal 80 gsm paper which I featured on here :)

  • @melcrose
    @melcrose Před 2 lety +406

    "aluminum foil clearly doesn't work - Let me try... ALUMINUM FOIL."

  • @ezrarichardson279
    @ezrarichardson279 Před 2 lety +1077

    The fact that all these people in this comment section are being helpful and trying to propose ideas on who to achieve a commun goal is pretty cool and relatively rare. Great video! I want to see the project succeed!

    • @pollosasadosalcarbon
      @pollosasadosalcarbon Před rokem +16

      lego wheel go fast

    • @JasonMitchellofcompsci
      @JasonMitchellofcompsci Před rokem +20

      No it's not. If anything youtube comments are obnoxiously positive. What's rare is that they are giving genuinely helpful and thoughtful comments instead of low effort positive comments that could fit onto any video with the either the absolute minimum effort to tailor it to the video, or going way overboard with it but poorly.

    • @ezrarichardson279
      @ezrarichardson279 Před rokem +10

      @@JasonMitchellofcompsci True. The actual good feedback is what’s surprising

    • @racer927
      @racer927 Před rokem +3

      @@JasonMitchellofcompsci Why not have constructive criticism with a positive, encouraging tone?

    • @grapefroot6515
      @grapefroot6515 Před rokem +3

      @@JasonMitchellofcompsci you look like you have an entire phone book of discord “kittens” and their social security numbers written down with a death note hardcover on it

  • @basilicon.
    @basilicon. Před 2 lety +468

    When your tin foil disk exploded, it was experiencing 1400 g's of centripetal force around the edges. Pretty incredible if you ask me.
    At this rate, you might actually hit material limits before you break the sound barrier.

    • @Rheologist
      @Rheologist Před rokem +42

      He *is* hitting the material limits

    • @Picked_MarkoMilicic
      @Picked_MarkoMilicic Před rokem +7

      @@Rheologist yes but its ye cheep aluminum foil from martwal

    • @LutraLovegood
      @LutraLovegood Před 3 měsíci

      @@Rheologist I don't think he has hit material limits yet, tin foil is capable of more but just a thin sheet of it was never going to hold up to such high speeds.

    • @person8064
      @person8064 Před měsícem

      I calculated about 12000g's of force with a speed of 358 km/h and a diameter of 17cm

  • @simonjelley
    @simonjelley Před 2 lety +1389

    The rotor has significant pumping losses, it acts as a centrifugal fan. If you sandwich a disc closely between stationary discs it will go much faster, as less power will go to pumping air. That said, you’ll need a balanced, precise and stiff disc for the rotor. Beware that if you use CDs etc. if you reach failure the fragments are vicious. Gluing radial carbon fibre ‘tow’ will improve strength to weight but will be difficult to keep balanced. Pairing with a prop balancer for RC plane/drone props might get you there.
    Beware there will be vacuum generated either side of the rotor as it centrifugally removes the air, so side discs also need to be stiff.

    • @emiliaolfelt6370
      @emiliaolfelt6370 Před 2 lety +248

      in english, air is sticky. cover the sides of the big spinning disk and it will form a vacuum. less air make less sticky.
      like when u put ur hand over a vacuum cleaner and the bwaaaa speeds up.

    • @aech_two_oh
      @aech_two_oh Před 2 lety +73

      @@emiliaolfelt6370 thank you for the translation

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +154

      Hey thanks for that info, really appreciate it cheers :)

    • @greystonegamer
      @greystonegamer Před 2 lety +26

      @@emiliaolfelt6370 thank you for the translation, I cannot speak smart

    • @ENCHANTMEN_
      @ENCHANTMEN_ Před 2 lety +6

      Is it really supersonic if there's no air, though? 🤔

  • @sage5296
    @sage5296 Před 2 lety +219

    the tin foil disk slowly disintegrating from the rotational forces at 3:50 was pretty cool. Mach 0.5 is still pretty impressive with lego motors and axles all things considered

  • @whoiam5838
    @whoiam5838 Před 2 lety +132

    This might be something useful which I learned from XKCD:
    The edge of a spinning disc can't go faster than the **square root of the specific strength** (tensile strength divided by density) of the material it's made of. So, to get a disk that can spin faster you need to pick a material that has some combination of stronger an lighter.

    • @jaffarebellion292
      @jaffarebellion292 Před rokem +11

      Graphene. It seems to be the answer to everything nowadays.

    • @mOries0795
      @mOries0795 Před 4 měsíci

      Carbon fiber?

    • @whoiam5838
      @whoiam5838 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@mOries0795 If I'm remembering how to read my Ashby chart correctly then yeah, carbon fiber looks pretty good. However, I do think it depends on how the carbon fibers are arranged.

    • @LutraLovegood
      @LutraLovegood Před 3 měsíci

      @@whoiam5838 Considering how most computer fans just use regular plastic, the shape /structure of the spinning object seems pretty important.

    • @JoeParkerAndThePower
      @JoeParkerAndThePower Před měsícem

      I reckon CNC cut carbon fibre or even GRP might work. CDs as some have said here seem heavy but you'd want to check the maths. Has anyone ever tested the tensile strength of a CD lol (I'm kidding, it's basically polycabonate with a shiny side obvs)

  • @haflingerfan5800
    @haflingerfan5800 Před 2 lety +1782

    The problem with using bigger and bigger discs is that if you double the radius you get twice the circumference and twice the speed but the mass of the discs quadruples because the area goes up with the radius squared. So it's probably better to go with a small disc and increase the gear ratio instead

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +250

      Hey yes bigger definitely made it worse! I need something so thin but rigid :)

    • @WaluigiisthekingASmith
      @WaluigiisthekingASmith Před 2 lety +42

      Technically it's the moment of inertia which makes it worse. Since moment of inertia is 1/2 mr^2 for a disk it goes up with the 4th power of radius

    • @namedescription320
      @namedescription320 Před 2 lety +28

      Why would moment of inertia limit maximum speed? The cause is just air resistance, not mass

    • @namedescription320
      @namedescription320 Před 2 lety +37

      ​@iRian I agree that moment of inertia affects acceleration, but not the top speed.

    • @namedescription320
      @namedescription320 Před 2 lety +31

      @@finalstarmandx6644 Top speed is reached when sum of all torques is equal to 0. Here we have 2 sources of torque - engine and air drag. Moment of inertia does not affect any of these.

  • @Athens69420
    @Athens69420 Před 2 lety +39

    Breaking news: Man built makeshift hypersonic missile using LEGOs making LEGO stock rise 1000%

  • @MTBCrafter
    @MTBCrafter Před 2 lety +17

    6:50 look at the black pins turning due to the vibration. Thats soo cool! Love it.

  • @JeffHB123
    @JeffHB123 Před rokem +42

    This guy and the slow mo guys need to do a collab. Would be awesome to see the vibrations in the object spinning.

  • @PaulFisher
    @PaulFisher Před 2 lety +267

    Amazing how the aluminum foil discs tear themselves apart. It would be so cool to see that happen in super slow-mo!

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +61

      I’d love that too Paul, I’ve been looking for an affordable slow mo camera! Hoping to get one soon, most are silly money.

    • @technicalfool
      @technicalfool Před 2 lety +14

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines Lots of youtubers use Chronos cameras. They'll do thousands of FPS and while they're not cheap, they're a lot cheaper than Phantom. Probably cost less than what you've already spent on crazy-level Lego gear. :P

    • @TheLionOfOrange
      @TheLionOfOrange Před 2 lety +6

      watch 'CD shattering at 170,000 FPS' by the Slo Mo Guys. Not exactly what you wanna see, but pretty damn close

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 Před 2 lety

      not that amazing when you can rip it apart easily by hand

    • @maxedbricks589
      @maxedbricks589 Před 2 lety

      It’s because the disk hits the resonant frequency of the material. Once resonance occurs the material experiences amplified deformations and explodes because of it

  • @cooldude6527
    @cooldude6527 Před rokem +17

    6:44 when the intrusive thoughts win

  • @sealpiercing8476
    @sealpiercing8476 Před 2 lety +50

    If you could laminate some aluminum foil discs together so the thickness tapers from hub to edge, that would help keep it from breaking under centrifugal loads. It looked like you'd maybe have enough power for that type if only it held together. Keeping it nearly balanced is critical, though, so my suggestion might be hard to fabricate accurately enough. The low weight of the foil may mitigate that, so maybe worth a shot.

  • @trattoretrattore8228
    @trattoretrattore8228 Před 2 lety +44

    This is extremely cool! Sound barrier or not, I think you reached a world speed record for Lego.

    • @LHS_Shadow
      @LHS_Shadow Před rokem +5

      Did actually reach the sound barrier on the edge of the aluminum foil. That’s why it kept exploding

    • @ananazaaaztheman3425
      @ananazaaaztheman3425 Před rokem

      Achieving the speed of light with lego

  • @teknikadam9001
    @teknikadam9001 Před 2 lety +54

    Most people are wrote about the loads but I think an important portion of the power is lost on the plastic axles and gears, their flexity reduces power greatly so maybe a design could adress that, also having lots of rotating things increase the intertia and cause air friction so decreasing the number of gears could work better, maybe some gears can be put in the same axle. Although as I think about it, inequalities of the motors also a problem for the system maybe flexity of gears is a requirement for alignment of all motors.

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +10

      Hey thanks for that! The one problem is axle strength which is why I need so many inputs to spread the torque load. :)

    • @teknikadam9001
      @teknikadam9001 Před 2 lety +14

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines For this problem, I think the best solution is steel axles, Legos plastic axles are not enough for this projec

    • @nikolasvip121
      @nikolasvip121 Před rokem +2

      @@teknikadam9001 that would break the entire objective of doing it by legos

  • @HL65536
    @HL65536 Před 2 lety +118

    you need very aerodynamic "arms", and as few as possible. Try just one "arm", balanced out by a counterweight. And the "arm" has to be propeller shaped, but with a flat angle, so it does not move air. Then try to find the torque vs speed curve for different gear ratios and use the setting with ideal power and construct "arm" length accordingly. And while centrifugal force gets better with increased diameter (if you want constant tip speed), air resistance depends on total area, so a smaller object at the same speed creates less of it.

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +13

      Hey there thank you for that! Appreciate the input! I may have found the answer! Video soon hopefully :)

    • @coolskywizard
      @coolskywizard Před 2 lety +2

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines try RC helicopter blades. They are usually well-balanced and are aerodynamic

    • @escain
      @escain Před 2 lety +6

      Actually a flat disk has much better aerodynamic than any arm.

    • @MGSLurmey
      @MGSLurmey Před rokem

      @@escain Better aerodynamics but significantly worse losses from pumping, or in laymans terms literally dragging the air around. An aerofoil shape is ideal, or sandwiching the disk between two static disks to remove the air pumping.

    • @suqma
      @suqma Před rokem

      what about fishing line or dyneema
      that has incredibly good tensile strenght to weight ratio

  • @saturatedpotato8797
    @saturatedpotato8797 Před 2 lety +6

    At 7:15, you can see the black rivets holding the frame, are rotating from the vibration, just thought it was cool

  • @WalkerO-dp8jq
    @WalkerO-dp8jq Před 2 lety +10

    5:00 the ultimate weed whacker

  • @mattsteel7220
    @mattsteel7220 Před 2 lety +16

    The sounds that the foil discs made when disintegrating were amazing! Bit like a cyberman dying 😂

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +1

      Lol, I wish I had a good camera to see this in super slow mo :)

    • @Nobrainn
      @Nobrainn Před 2 lety

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines you should try to record it on your phone if he is able to do slow mo

    • @thelarryman482
      @thelarryman482 Před rokem

      aAaAAAAaAaAaAUUuUUUUuUUAAAAAaAaUUuUGGGHhHHhH

  • @ahjsbkdjhavkcjhvac
    @ahjsbkdjhavkcjhvac Před 2 lety +112

    wonder what would happen if we just keep adding more motors and eventually make a propeller to try lift the craft

    • @rrieux
      @rrieux Před 2 lety +4

      Somebody already did it :-)
      czcams.com/video/TTui3shLRPk/video.html

    • @blau6832
      @blau6832 Před 2 lety +15

      Well, would that be a bigger relative increase in power or in weight?

    • @shoty_x1693
      @shoty_x1693 Před 2 lety +6

      To make a craft you need enough power or lift force to lift the motors up. Or else it's just a high speed fan

  • @zanus5591
    @zanus5591 Před 2 lety +7

    I love how pins spinning from vibration at 7:07

  • @mftripz8445
    @mftripz8445 Před rokem +10

    If you weren’t behind some kinda of shield, that was pretty ballsy. The Centrifugal force of that rpm range has to be insanely powerful, especially with those weights attached with a string, one blow to the head from a breakoff would be most likely fatal.

  • @JOAOPROGAMER00
    @JOAOPROGAMER00 Před 2 lety +13

    6:37 sounds like a car

  • @ms2649
    @ms2649 Před 2 lety +7

    That ending made me laugh so hard
    That disk was like "nope im out, not havin it today" 😂

  • @2fast2kart
    @2fast2kart Před 2 lety +8

    6:24 weedwacker moment

  • @barefootalien
    @barefootalien Před 2 lety +24

    A very valiant effort! But I think you'd need to optimize your rotor a _lot_ more than this to get to Mach 1. Something like a precision machined aluminum flywheel might do it. Also, maybe consider aluminum axles for the last few stages? I imagine they're better balanced, straighter, and will lose a lot less energy to vibration losses as you pass through resonance bands.

  • @2fast2kart
    @2fast2kart Před 2 lety +5

    5:24 try more things like this, make crazy things that attach and spin on it like that, perhaps try and get such high speeds that it lifts itself up!

  • @ci.netproductions
    @ci.netproductions Před rokem +9

    2:52… interesting how the aluminum disc shatters under immense centrifugal force. It reminds me of how TheSlowMoGuys did a video about this phenomenon showing amazing footage of what a spinning CD or Record looks like just before it shatters.

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před rokem +1

      Hey thanks for the comment, much appreciated! I wish I had better cameras :)

    • @wumbosaurus9121
      @wumbosaurus9121 Před rokem +1

      Was gonna make that exact comparison. Love that video, incredibly educational as well. Was insane seeing the disc warping, with the warp moving at a different speed than the actual movement of the disc

    • @Ibloop
      @Ibloop Před rokem +1

      It’s stiff and light and when it changes/folds too much under the immense speed it shatters

  • @Djou-Karl
    @Djou-Karl Před 2 lety +3

    6:38 you can see the pins holding the 2nd 5x7 frame spinning inside the pinholes. CRAZY! I liked that

  • @phlave
    @phlave Před 2 lety +49

    I noticed something really interesting in the "tower assembly" you used in the later tests in the video: the bolts connecting the two segments laterally were spinning in their sockets! Could this be some sort of resonance in the structure, maybe even sapping away energy from it?

    • @LutraLovegood
      @LutraLovegood Před 3 měsíci

      Yes, definitely losing a lot of energy there. The whole construction was shaking.

  • @2fast2kart
    @2fast2kart Před 2 lety +7

    4:09 it sounds like a car!

    • @59ftgb
      @59ftgb Před 2 lety +1

      Same

    • @A_void.
      @A_void. Před rokem +1

      my i4 honda jazz after I installed a turbocharger:

  • @nerdfacegaming6999
    @nerdfacegaming6999 Před rokem +6

    4:40
    the disc got so angry it destroyed itself lol

  • @ethancotton1549
    @ethancotton1549 Před rokem +1

    The foil disc's are actually a great example of tensile strength of materials, and are a great way to show why Tesla's hydroelectric generator would never work on a large industrial sized generator scale. At the time of its creation no materials could take the centrifugal forces. For context the generator had a peak efficiency when spinning at ~45,000 rpm iirc, and when used with a disc similarly sized to our current hydroelectric generators at around 2 meters, the tip would be reaching speeds in excess of mach 13.

  • @hensema
    @hensema Před 2 lety +1

    Spinning a bullet to the speed of a bullet and hoping a glove and/or sweater will stop it is my new definition of optimism.

  • @susq_345
    @susq_345 Před 7 měsíci +3

    6:05 contraption sounds like black mesa anti-mass spectrometer

  • @whateveryonesalreadythinki2574

    it might help to stabilize the open end of the output axle. I feel like the primary vibrations caused by unbalanced rotating mass are really holding it back

  • @guts60
    @guts60 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Fun fact: the sound of a whip cracking is literally the end of it breaking the sound barrier. The whip was likely the first man-made object to achieve supersonic speeds, even if only for a small moment

  • @Andrew90046zero
    @Andrew90046zero Před 2 lety +7

    7:55 airplane noises

  • @rs37_
    @rs37_ Před 2 lety +12

    As you can see in 2:34 you get the highest circumferential speed with small, stiff discs, maybe you can do it with a more stable disc of about 10cm! I keep my fingers crossed for you and thank you for the great content, I can't wait for the next video...

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +2

      Hey there thank you! I really hope to achieve! Last night I managed 650mph (new tactic I stupidly didn’t try lol) :)

    • @rs37_
      @rs37_ Před 2 lety +1

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines Wow, incredible, over 1000 km/h, thanks for the spoiler ;)

  • @tiporari
    @tiporari Před 2 lety +3

    Model aircraft propellers routinely break the sound barrier (most the of noise you hear on high performance stuff). Those high speed composite propellers are balanced and strong enough to not kill you. Granted their positive pitch means they need several horsepower to achieve those speeds, but you should be able to find something with a shallow pitch. And EDF impeller comes to mind.

  • @aterxter3437
    @aterxter3437 Před 2 lety +2

    Having aerodynamic lessons in my studies, I think that the disk route is the most likely, with stronger disk (not kitchen aluminium foil, but thicker foil from industrial cakes, or sheet metal) and less flexible like paper :
    I would say that the linked weights and the rolling bar have the least chance, as they induce a lot of drag, because of the vortexes created behind them.
    In my opinion, the disk route is the most likely to work, as the disk, instead of running into nearly stationary air, will create a uniform (if the disk stays flat) boundary layer : a region between the surface of the disk and the stationary ambient air were the air next to the disk is induced in rotation by it and this rotation movement decrease the drag.
    The issue with the disks, is the centrifugal force (f(N)=mass(kg)*radius(m)*angular velocity(radians/s=2*pi*turns/s)^2) your disks shattered because the aluminium foil couldn't sustain the tension induced by the centrifugal force, you need a stronger disk, and as we saw, the paper one is too flexible, resulting in it flopping during the rotation, creating a lot of drag.

  • @3447_gaeming
    @3447_gaeming Před 7 měsíci +1

    imagine aliens studying this piece of footage and going, "well this is an interesting way to disintegrate tinfoil "

  • @jareddeckard2703
    @jareddeckard2703 Před 2 lety +8

    That's so cool! 330 mph is incredible!

  • @NelKeu
    @NelKeu Před 2 lety +7

    Wow! It's impressive that wheels reach such crazy speeds! 😎😲

  • @ryalexstudios
    @ryalexstudios Před rokem +5

    8:02 sounds like a propeller airplane

  • @A_void.
    @A_void. Před rokem +5

    3:14 sound like my annoying neighbor car
    Yes his car exploded

  • @2fast2kart
    @2fast2kart Před 2 lety +4

    For those of you who don’t know, 0:46 that’s how cars work to get high speed.

  • @MorganSaph
    @MorganSaph Před rokem +5

    This video just seems to prove that a bigger diameter is slower. Also, you need to use materials that have a terminal velocity higher than the speed of sound if you want to reach it. Also, the flatter and less warped the disc, the higher the speed it will withstand, before further deforming.

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před rokem +1

      Hey there thanks for the comment I appreciate it! I’m continuing with this right now, I’m getting close :)

  • @tertiaryobjective
    @tertiaryobjective Před 2 lety +1

    Watching these just makes me want to go and buy enough to make my own, I fear how much this would've cost. I have enough expensive hobbies already trying to make synthwave. This is so great though, I'm glad someone is doing the Lord's work. There are so many questions to be asked!

  • @D3VURL
    @D3VURL Před rokem +2

    It like the way the foil one go "AHHH-" on take 3 (3:55)

  • @dingdongmcnugget
    @dingdongmcnugget Před 2 lety +8

    Try ironing the paper, it should help to flatten it out and minimise vibration issues

  • @andreylyutikov8348
    @andreylyutikov8348 Před rokem +8

    3:05 United airlines flight 232

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 Před 2 lety +4

    3:00 Looks like aerodynamic instability.

  • @ron133.
    @ron133. Před 2 lety +1

    30 years later we're going past the speed of light using LEGOS

  • @MusikCassette
    @MusikCassette Před 2 lety +5

    4:55 lets get dangerous

  • @stio_studio
    @stio_studio Před 2 lety +8

    This looks dangerous. I love it :D

  • @Gforce_2398
    @Gforce_2398 Před rokem +1

    I love how the 17cm one sound like literal car engines lol

  • @adam346
    @adam346 Před rokem

    thanks for the sound warning... my headphones (and by proxy ears) thank you!!

  • @freenickor
    @freenickor Před 2 lety +18

    From the point of physics, I must tell that to reach the maximum possible speed, sideways from putting all the weight to the center and making maximum diameter, you must minimize the possible air resistance, bc on high speeds it's taking much of the power. That's why you made out only 124 km/h with those lego bars

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +1

      Hey yes I do agree! The drag was insane on that bar! I’ll experiment with other things in the future :)

    • @clawsoon
      @clawsoon Před 2 lety

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines If you actually want to get up to the speed of sound, you might want to look at something like the Busemann biplane for the shape of the thing you're spinning:
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busemann_biplane
      The problem is that once you get up past about 0.6 times the speed of sound, resistance starts increasing dramatically, up to ten times what you'd expect based on the (already huge) quadratic increase that you see at lower speeds:
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag-divergence_Mach_number
      So to get from half of the speed of sound up to the full speed of sound you'd expect to experience 4 times the drag (and require 8 times the power), but instead you experience about 40 times the drag (and require 80 times the power).

    • @Chevsilverado
      @Chevsilverado Před 2 lety

      Putting weight to the center will only make the disc accelerate faster, not raise top speed.

    • @freenickor
      @freenickor Před 2 lety

      Well air would create more stopping power, if it encountered the parts which're more far from center, therefore creating longer lever for air to push against

  • @xerox-0579
    @xerox-0579 Před 2 lety +19

    What kinds of batteries is it using? You can get a bit more power out of Energiser lithium AAs. They can put out a max of 1.7v each.

  • @Yeuk_tek
    @Yeuk_tek Před 9 měsíci

    ahh yes, he has become so advanced with Legos he wants to make one go faster then some commercial aircraft. Love to see it.

  • @twen7yseven
    @twen7yseven Před 2 lety +1

    That foil spinning needs to be filmed in high speed! Looks like it stretches out, very neat.

  • @RichardHammond2
    @RichardHammond2 Před 2 lety +3

    Damn man that’s sooo fast I found the tin foil so satisfying as it got completely shredded 🤯 keep it up!!!😎👍

  • @danielclarke7109
    @danielclarke7109 Před 2 lety +5

    Try it in a vacuum chamber, pretty sure you can do it at reduced air pressure.

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +1

      Hey thanks Daniel I’ll look into this! I think brick experimental did it so will take a look :)

    • @MinazukiShiun
      @MinazukiShiun Před 2 lety

      Wait, I'm sure you can build a vacuum chamber from Lego!

  • @EpicGiantMango
    @EpicGiantMango Před 2 lety +1

    You need a thin disc with a large diameter, thicker on the inside and tapering out towards the edge. Use lightening holes to minimize the weight of the disc and reduce the aerodynamic surface area to hopefully reduce drag. Or run it in a vacuum pot.

  • @spaynj5037
    @spaynj5037 Před rokem

    U know ur a scientist at heart when the thing flings high speed bits of metal out at all angles AND THEN U TRY IT 2 MORE TIMES!!! This reminds me of that skid comic about the mystery Lightning lever

  • @Minestone4306
    @Minestone4306 Před 2 lety +3

    This is a super underrated channel. Love the vids!

  • @delta4050
    @delta4050 Před rokem +4

    2:11 the ultimate papercut

  • @superior3326
    @superior3326 Před 6 měsíci +2

    7:20 *the mosquito in my room:*

  • @akkristor
    @akkristor Před 2 lety

    I wish you had a high speed camera. That foil tearing itself apart, shredding from the outside in would look AMAZING.

  • @AstroneerAddict
    @AstroneerAddict Před 2 lety +2

    I have a cheat way to do this, attach a Lego technique piece to a supersonic aircraft:333

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety

      That may have took me less time to organise than charge these 72 aa batteries 3 times over lol

  • @origamakoie6558
    @origamakoie6558 Před 2 lety +3

    Speed of light???
    This is still insane, you've really pushed the limits of lego!

    • @chunkypesto
      @chunkypesto Před 2 lety +3

      next vid idea XD

    • @karyjas1
      @karyjas1 Před 2 lety +2

      Maybe if he used a 10000hp motor plus highest tier alloys and better material than carbon fiber. But still just a little over no way and far from maybe. That would be pushing it to a degree where humanity cant predict what would happen

    • @vectorpacer2063
      @vectorpacer2063 Před 2 lety

      @@karyjas1 still its impossible to reach speed of light

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety

      Haha hey there I hope things are good! And thank you as always :)

  • @Cru128
    @Cru128 Před rokem

    I refuse to believe that this man is even a human, this is beyond what any man should be able to do.

  • @alessandrozucchelli5905
    @alessandrozucchelli5905 Před 2 lety +1

    I would also recomend to wrap around the machine a wall .... as you have created for a segment. I am very familiar with turbine burst tests... it is quite surprising the amount of energy even a small mass has at those speeds... awesome vid

  • @dentjoener
    @dentjoener Před 2 lety +6

    This might be much much harder the closer you get to mach 1. Planes travel at around mach 0.8 because it's the fastest they can go before air resistance just skyrockets. This is your main enemy here. I have a feeling you need a LOT more power to even get tiny things faster than the speed of sound. Plus centrifugal force will be astronomical at this speed as well. I wonder if it can be done though :)

    • @sgthop
      @sgthop Před 2 lety +2

      Parasitic drag increases with the square of speed.
      The reason airliners stick around Mach 0.8 though is less to do with pure drag and more to do with the shockwaves that start forming creating unsuitable buffeting for control surfaces among other things. Propeller tips can easily break the sound barrier in high performance aircraft, such as the Tu-95. However, again, the shockwaves created by this are undesirable.
      Realistically, the mechanical drag of such a large geartrain is what's holding a Lego creation from spinning something up to the speed of sound. There are so many shafts and so many gears and each one of those just compounds the force needed to drive the output shaft.

    • @dentjoener
      @dentjoener Před 2 lety +3

      @@sgthop Yeah you're right, drag increases with the square of the airspeed. But the drag coefficient Cd peaks around mach 1. Which in turn increases the required power by a lot more than just the square. That's what I was referring to. All of your other points are absolutely correct though.

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +2

      Yep I fear you’re right! At a guess I’d need 10 times the amount of motors continuing on like I did here!
      But I do think there’s better lighter things to spin with far less drag which could help! Would be great to achieve with Lego power :)

    • @TheOriginalBlue62
      @TheOriginalBlue62 Před 2 lety

      @@sgthop If you've ever heard a Harvard, or T6 Texan flying they have that really distinctive buzz from the prop tips breaking the barrier- on WW2 era training aircraft :D

    • @clawsoon
      @clawsoon Před 2 lety

      @@dentjoener The Wikipedia article on drag divergence says the drag around Mach 1 is up to 10 times what you'd expect. So instead of seeing 4 times the drag (and requiring 8 times the power) to get from Mach 0.5 to Mach 1.0, you'll see something more like 40 times the drag (and require something like 80 times the power).

  • @pawelch9536
    @pawelch9536 Před 2 lety +6

    Can you try spinning a propeller on that thing? Good video👍👌

    • @karyjas1
      @karyjas1 Před 2 lety +2

      Yes, but not at hypersonice speeds. A prop would have the highest drag of all the things he tried by a far margin

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +2

      My next video will feature this! I have an idea but not sure it will work :)

    • @pawelch9536
      @pawelch9536 Před 2 lety

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines ok fine😁

    • @joecolvin4203
      @joecolvin4203 Před 2 lety +1

      I was looking through the comments to see if anyone suggested this. Lol. I want to see it... though you will want to ware a hard face mask with other proper protections. If it fails, it's going to hurt. Might want to setup a stand for your tool and hide under and around something to be safe. Cage will also work.

  • @AlexaAXAG
    @AlexaAXAG Před 2 lety +1

    here i am just getting mad anxiety everytime something goes flying

  • @quaqduck3426
    @quaqduck3426 Před 7 měsíci +1

    i like how everyone here is taking this topic so seriously lmaoo, like looking at it from a different prespective, its just a grown man playing with legos and bunch of other grown men giving him advice on how to better play with legos, its beautifull really

  • @Velktron
    @Velktron Před 2 lety +5

    I suspect you have quite heavy losses with those multiplication ratios, especially with those 64:8 gears. Using smaller ones will result in more complex drivetrains, but this will be more than offset by the cut in losses. In particular try to avoid using the 8-tooth gear as a driven member.

  • @eamh2002
    @eamh2002 Před rokem +3

    4:15 Audi v10 FSI(tm) soundtrack

  • @WRLDAROUNDEN
    @WRLDAROUNDEN Před měsícem

    3:56 dude you just invented the perfect way to make foil and other material circles

  • @pfosirens1398
    @pfosirens1398 Před 2 lety +1

    Well done! Now make an RC car with that. Because of weight it will definetely go around 40-80km/h! I want to see it!

  • @tjorvegro9651
    @tjorvegro9651 Před 2 lety +7

    Try ceran Wrap (I don't know if I spelled it right). Its really light does not break as easy as the tin foil and if it's a disc it doesn't have a lot of drag. All the ropes stuff suffered from huge drag. I don't think it's possible with the rope because the drag punches them back if you are really close to the speed of sound and they will just pull back and reduce the diameter

  • @txikitofandango
    @txikitofandango Před 2 lety +3

    Cool. Would've liked to see more about the thought behind it. How the gears are assembled, how the plate is modified. Did you try more mass near the center, at its point of failure? Etc

    • @txikitofandango
      @txikitofandango Před 2 lety

      I guess a progression is visible here, I like the variety of trials

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +1

      Hey thanks Nick, as it was similar to the rpm test I just did I didn’t add the gear ratio part. I did film it but in the end I didn’t want the video dragging on too long.
      I think custom parts will be needed :)

  • @TheKurtsPlaceChannel
    @TheKurtsPlaceChannel Před 2 lety

    Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

  • @The_Ambababush.
    @The_Ambababush. Před 7 měsíci +1

    6:22 chainsaw sound acheived 👍👍👌👌

  • @harrisdavid912
    @harrisdavid912 Před rokem +4

    Did you consider maybe a disc from an angle grinder? Also, for cutting foil, you might try it with heavier foil with lower tolerance, and a compass, maybe that will help keep it flat

  • @osik6746
    @osik6746 Před 2 lety +3

    can you make eletric scooter from lego?
    nice vid.

  • @luigilops1395
    @luigilops1395 Před 2 lety +1

    i give you a craazy idea: reduce gear ratio. You don't need to hit 100000 rpm and every time you go up youlose power

  • @Chevsilverado
    @Chevsilverado Před 2 lety

    Goal for the wheel is to have minimal surface and cross sectional area for the least air resistance while being strong enough for speed of sound spinning. The weight does not affect top speed for a given diameter and air resistance, only the time it takes to hit the top speed. Weight will increase moment of intertia, but that only lowers the acceleration of the disc, not top speed.
    Also there is a special diameter for each material which gives the highest speed. It’s a balance between
    1. extra air resistance of a larger disc
    2. Lower RPM for speed of sound

  • @danielsaenz5570
    @danielsaenz5570 Před 2 lety +3

    I recommend using the buwizz motors they have an output RPM of 2000 !!! Maybe that could help you reach the speed of sound,
    Thanks!

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety

      I wish I had a few of them Daniel! I priced quite a few up with the hubs but the cost was silly silly money! Mainly the hubs! I’d need about 20 to be more effective than these 39 L motors. :)

  • @TheDemocrab
    @TheDemocrab Před 2 lety +5

    4:50 You do realise that now you have to make a technic whipper snipper? (Brush cutter for the non aussies)

    • @smloader
      @smloader Před 2 lety +4

      weedeater

    • @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines
      @GazRsExtremeBrickMachines  Před 2 lety +4

      I still had to google lol. A strimmer!!! I do plan on doing this, I’ve even made the end fitting out if just Lego and it cuts really good :)

    • @TheDemocrab
      @TheDemocrab Před 2 lety

      @@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines excellent, I look forward to seeing it :D

  • @cuddleporo9004
    @cuddleporo9004 Před 2 lety

    i clicked away cus of the warning. came back to say thank you for warning me my absolute hearing and easily sensory overload autism appreciate it

  • @randomdev8735
    @randomdev8735 Před rokem +2

    take 3 is amazing to see how the disc just shrinks

  • @levsmolsky8354
    @levsmolsky8354 Před 2 lety +8

    Vacuum chamber to go even faster?

    • @cvs8524
      @cvs8524 Před měsícem +1

      Sound can not travel in vaccum

    • @FranciscoSilva-km1dg
      @FranciscoSilva-km1dg Před 26 dny +2

      Passing the wires to a vaccuum chamber must not be easy

    • @AnthonyVelazquez-hr6jx
      @AnthonyVelazquez-hr6jx Před 7 dny

      @@cvs8524it can. There’s no air particles for the sound to hit

    • @babo213
      @babo213 Před dnem

      ⁠@@AnthonyVelazquez-hr6jxno, sound is vibration traveling through air

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 Před 2 lety +4

    3:31 Is air resistance enough to grind down the foil?

  • @altaccount4697
    @altaccount4697 Před 2 lety

    People are saying that the thing holding you back is air resistance, and they are correct. The foil vibrates, and that adds up to significant losses. You should try a more rigid disk that does not vibrate, but be wary of things like CDs because they are genuinely dangerous when they blow up. I would actually recommend tilting this on its side so that the plane of shrapnel is up and down rather than flat, that way the only way you will be hit is a ricochet off of something else. The number one thing that would help though is power. Mo powah baby. TLDR- More balls, rigid disk that isn't a CD

  • @broncoxy
    @broncoxy Před 2 lety

    i swear lego technic guys are gonna be the first ones to visit Mars and then upload a video named 'can i reach Mars with Lego Technic?' that barely gets any clicks until it suddenly gets recommended to everyone a few years later