Alexander Hamsterton

Thanks for the link :-). I'm the father of the father/son team that did the original MOC and Ideas project. To answer a question earlier, we did the design collaboratively over about a year before submitting it to LEGO Ideas. The 8-wide looks great! We aren't releasing plans as the design is still in LEGO Ideas review, but if you've got specific questions let me know.

We're currently giving LEGO Ideas the best shot we can, and as a result haven't shared the design. You should be able to get a really good sense of it from the pictures and videos though. Vote for our project on LEGO Ideas and you might be able to buy one in a store one day :-).

I'm glad you did share! We played around with all of the elements you used for the arm and ended up using the handlebars. The rubber bricks are promising, but we liked how the cans tipped at the top with no rubber. We're hoping a LEGO designer gets a shot at the idea to see what they would come up with!

Great to hear the mechanism is working great, we are very happy with the smoothness and reliability of it as well. Any pictures you can share? Thanks!

Thanks bricksboy, my son and I worked together on the design and the video both. We worked together on the mechanism and refined it from a very big one to something that will fit in a small truck over about a year. You've got a great youtube channel as well! My son is into stop motion, and we've subscribed.

Thanks, yeah. We were really wondering how to show the functions of the vehicle and decided we really needed a video to do it justice.

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Thanks, we used the Blender LDraw importer at https://github.com/TobyLobster/ImportLDraw, and then used some three-point lighting techniques to give me more flexibility to get the lighting the way we wanted it.

Hi all, My son and I have been working on a minifig/city scale automated side-loading garbage truck build for the last year or so. We've finally gotten it to the point where we'd like to share it and get feedback. The bin arm is operated by a knob and reaches out and grabs and dumps standard LEGO dust bins with a plate on the bottom. There is also a ram in the hopper that is operated by a second knob. It pushes the trash into the dumper: The inside of the dumper is smooth to allow the trash to dump out: We also made a video that shows the truck and functions in action. The video may show the functions of the truck more clearly than the pictures can: We're interested to get feedback on the build. Getting the bin arm to smoothly and reliably dump trash and integrating that and the ram into a compact build was definitely one of the big challenges. The truck with some "waste" bricks is about 450 pieces. This design was created and refined with bricks on hand over the course of more than a year and at least a dozen different design iterations. We then created a model in LEGO Digital Designer and used digital renders to visualize different colors. The custom printed tiles were created digitally using LDPatternCreator, using Bricklink's Studio tool and Blender with some custom lighting for the final digital renders and some animations. The video is partly digital rendering and partly live filming. For creating actual custom printed bricks, we made color laser prints of the designs, covered them with scotch tape and then gently washed the paper off using water, leaving enough stickiness on the tape to stick to the bricks. This was quick and easy and the tiles were durable enough to play/build with, so that worked very well for our purposes. The cab holds a minifig comfortably, and there is a a hand rail and ladder for another minfig to ride along. There are clips to hold tools for cleaning up as well. There are more photos on our Flickr album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmu32GeG We have also submitted the truck as a LEGO Ideas project. If you like the model we'd be grateful for your support. You can see our Ideas page at https://bit.ly/LegoGarbageTruck. Thanks!