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@dr_spock - actually....yeah! Something like that might actually work! I'll try it out as soon as I can. Thanks! :)

I post here instead. What I am currently trying to create is a "Pokemon Go Lego Egg-hatcher". Basically its a mobile game where you can hatch eggs by walking with your mobile phone in your pocket. My son and I both play this game and he (and I) would very much like to have such an contraption when the weather is very bad etc. I've tried two things now, and they both failed. The v1 one was VERY flimsy and it would shake itself apart after a short while since the second phone is quite heavy. V1 looke like: The v2 one was better, but some days it would clock in quite a few steps, other days it wouldnt register any steps at all. V2 was like the one I posted about here: Both v1 and v2 was "swings" of some sort, but what we've noticed - both my son and I - is that our phones reacts better to being shaked up and down, but I cant for the life of me visualize how I should build something that would shake our phones up and down... What works very good on my sons phone is if he lift the phone 5-10 cm up above say a sofa-pillow and just drops the phone onto the pillow and let it bounce a few times then repeat the process... I've been using the lego-train thing to power the contraptions - and this answers @Toastie 's question I guess since running on batteries would not work for this device. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :)

I am trying to build a "Pokemon Go egg-hatching Lego swing thing". I think I've nailed the "cradle" (that holds the phone) and also the stand which holds the cradle. The thing I am strugling with is how to make a lego motor (Im using XL now) to swing the swing... I want to build something that replicates this: (the link above is marked so that it starts at 5mins where you get to see the "device") Any ideas? Edit: I managed to replicate this device pretty much 100%, but it seems this type of swing is not "compatible" with either my son or my own phone...so back to drawingboard I guess :D Edit2: I posted something about this here:

wow...so much info here now :D thanks everyone for your input. I will be posting a new topic as to my current project...I am strugling to get it done..

YES! Works perfectly! Thank you :)

Ok, I bought the Electric Train Speed Regulator and a power supply for it. The PF motors dont hook up to it though ....now what? (sorry for being such a noob) :D -and thanks all of you for your help! :)

Ok, thanks everyone. Im in IT so I have probably 50 power-supply in a box in my server-room. I will do some experimenting some day I find the time :) What if I use a PSU generating 18 V and power two motors...would that work? Thanks again for your replies! :)

Im sorry...makes no sense to me......someone should make a detailed youtube video....name it right and get millions of views :D

Is there a way to bypass the batterypacks and hook up one ...or ideally several motors to "a thing" that is powered from a wall-socket?? (Im from Norway so we got 230V - Schuko-standard) Is this "thing" something that can be bought at Bricklinks or...??

Yeah thanks, :) I know there is many more gears, but I was wondering what is the largest and smallest gears...and if that is the 40 and 8-teeth ones? ...oh that Bricklink is just awesome!! Thanks!!!! :)

Hey thank you 1963maniac...unfortunately I seem only to get very complex stuff there as well :D But we've tried a few combinations now including a base-frame "car" with one engine at front driving one wheel, and one engine in the back driving another and we managed to remote it as well...so there's progress :D Next I'll be trying to get him to build something with a "rotor" of sorts and try to get it to rotate as fast as possbile...I would assume the largest gear directly to the motor and then hook up a tiny gear that will be hooked up to the rotor. Also been pondering about some pulley-system, and perhaps a conveyor-belt-system of sorts :) Is 40 teeth the largest and 8 teeth gears the smallest you can get?

Hello everyone and thank you for letting me in :) I'm a 49 yr old guy from Norway that has not built much Lego in my life unfortunately, But I *really* see the value in it for my 9 yr old son, and I'd like him to spend less time gaming and more time building Lego. So I went online and bought some Lego motors, axels, bushings and gears, but I'm not very good at this (crap infact :D ) and it seems we both could use some beginner-tips on where to start. I'm looking for VERY simple builds/tips perhaps combining two motors somehow ? (I tried to search on these forums and keep ending up in massively complex builds that makes my jaw drop but alas) :) Thanks again folks!