Lego GBC Lifting Cup Miniloop

[sawyer klegr]

This Miniloop has a "cup" attached to a lifting arm (the mechanism was inspired by Akiyuki) It can be powered by a motor or a hand crank, it is also very very reliable.

I have free instructions here.

 

[Leonardo da Bricki]

Nice little display piece, or easily part of a big setup. I really like the arm and it's range of motion, I might steal that idea from you in the future...

[sawyer klegr]

1 hour ago, Leonardo da Bricki said:

Nice little display piece, or easily part of a big setup. I really like the arm and it's range of motion, I might steal that idea from you in the future...

Thank you! If you want instructions they are here.

[Aventador2004]

Very well engineered, I think I will try and build it.

[Great Ball Pit]

Nice one sawyer! I've always liked the bendy liftarm modules like this and Akiyuki's 6 head.  You may have inspired me to build a smaller module with this type of lift as well!

[sawyer klegr]

32 minutes ago, Great Ball Pit said:

Nice one sawyer! I've always liked the bendy liftarm modules like this and Akiyuki's 6 head.  You may have inspired me to build a smaller module with this type of lift as well!

Thanks! This smaller version is good because takes a lot less power to run :-) 

[JonathanM]

That bendy arm is ingenious. Am wondering where I can make use of it elsewhere!

[sawyer klegr]

18 minutes ago, JonathanM said:

That bendy arm is ingenious. Am wondering where I can make use of it elsewhere!

Thank you!

[kieran]

That's very nice, such a simple way to index the balls into the arm, works very well. Does it deal with more balls backed up behind?

[sawyer klegr]

1 hour ago, kieran said:

That's very nice, such a simple way to index the balls into the arm, works very well. Does it deal with more balls backed up behind?

Thanks! It can handle one more but any more than that and it won't work properly.

[camaudio]

Would love to see a version with several of those arms going at 1 time, but just slightly out of phase from each other.

4 or more would look sick, almost like 4 fingers taping on a desk in sequence.

[sawyer klegr]

2 hours ago, camaudio said:

Would love to see a version with several of those arms going at 1 time, but just slightly out of phase from each other.

4 or more would look sick, almost like 4 fingers taping on a desk in sequence.

Thanks! Akiyuki's original module had 6 larger ones.

 

[Boulderer]

I really like these mini loops. This one is on my “to build” list 

[sawyer klegr]

11 hours ago, Boulderer said:

I really like these mini loops. This one is on my “to build” list 

Thanks! Would love to see photos if you do make one :-) 

[turbopolofr]

this very nice module is now referenced on Planet GBC: http://www.planet-gbc.com/?p=2516

with building instructions in PDF

thanks Sawyer for the hard work !

[sawyer klegr]

21 hours ago, turbopolofr said:

this very nice module is now referenced on Planet GBC: http://www.planet-gbc.com/?p=2516

with building instructions in PDF

thanks Sawyer for the hard work !

Thank you! :-) 

[doug72]

On 16/01/2018 at 9:02 PM, sawyer klegr said:

Thanks! Would love to see photos if you do make one :-) 

Thanks for the instructions - now built but got stumped at the last page when I couldn't find a blue Lego rubber band.
Eventually use 1mm elastic cord and now working great.

Edited January 26, 2018 by Doug72

[sawyer klegr]

On 27/01/2018 at 7:20 AM, Doug72 said:

Thanks for the instructions - now built but got stumped at the last page when I couldn't find a blue Lego rubber band.
Eventually use 1mm elastic cord and now working great.

Cool! Glad it worked well :-)