Fully Mechnical Domino Building Machine

[LegoGBC]

Hi!

Iv'e built a fully mechanical domino building machine. it uses 1 motor spinning in one direction only.

The mech is pretty simple - the motor drives the top 8 tooth gear which drives the 40 tooth (that moves the arm),that 40 tooth is

on the same axle of a 24 Tooth crown gear,which spins a 24 tooth regular gear,which shares its axle with another 8 tooth that drives a 40 tooth,

that shares the axle with the wheels (the wheels are the same size as the 40 tooth gear to make the mech accurate)

But this is only the simple mech. a lot of affort was done to prevent to dominos from falling while the machine was driving, preventing

from the arm to move 2 dominos at once and much more.

the machine is reliable.

inspired by Matthias Wandel (He used self made wooden dominos which made his machine simpler to build)

Video:

EDIT:

Sorry,forgot to embed:

(Thanks Alasdair Ryan)

Edited September 29, 2012 by LegoGBC

[Alasdair Ryan]

Very clever design and idea Lego GBC.

You know need to try to make a machine that can lay them on end.

Edited September 29, 2012 by Alasdair Ryan

[Lost_In_Noise]

Ingeinious design. So simple, yet so functional. Thanks for sharing your work. Does machines like this exist in the real world, with pre-programmed tracks and so forth?

[LegoGBC]

Ingeinious design. So simple, yet so functional. Thanks for sharing your work. Does machines like this exist in the real world, with pre-programmed tracks and so forth?

I didn't see anything that has pre-programmed tracks that WASN'T made out of Legos

[Lost_In_Noise]

I didn't see anything that has pre-programmed tracks that WASN'T made out of Legos

Haha, I meant purposedly built for dominoes. Well, I found something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzB-C4060fE

Obviously, the "add media" fuction doesn't work with shortened urls...

Edited September 29, 2012 by Lost_In_Noise

[Alasdair Ryan]

Now thats good.

Obviously, the "add media" fuction doesn't work with shortened urls...

:laugh:

Edited September 29, 2012 by Alasdair Ryan