Can a LEGO® Machine Spin a Top FOREVER?! I'll answer that question through a series of experiments with LEGO® pieces. Watch several LEGO® machines be built to spin tops, constantly achieving higher and higher spin times until the top spins forever! I can't wait to share these LEGO® machines with you, especially as you discover the answer to the experiment: Can a LEGO® Machine Spin a Top FOREVER?!
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That's not a ps4 controller
Make a lego supersonic with high speed motor and gear ratio!!!😎
Why are you spinning the top? Spin the glass, and the top should spin forever on it without stopping. I thought you'd do this, what with the gears around the edges of the glass.
This man makes me believes that anything can be accomplished with Lego
Thanks very much 😊 LEGO® bricks are seriously incredible! 👍
Next time will be world peace.
@@BrickMachines1 true😃😃😃
Even reviving the dead.
even creating life
Maybe reducing the wobbliness of the top spinner structure could also reduce the energy loss? (and make the top more stable)
Yes, definitely! I noticed that as well, and attempted to mitigate it by supporting the spinning axle much better on the final machine. Great idea!
I was thinking that a flywheel on the spinner might do just that.
All tops are inherently unstable when they start spinning. They self-stabilize thanks to the "gyroscopic effect". However you can't get rid of all the friction that is between the top and the surface it's spinning on. The only way to truly make it spin forever is to remove ALL resistance (air, ground, etc). Aka, spin it in a vacuum on no platform.
@@dyanosis it could be suspended between 2 magnetic bearings in a vacuum. The earth's rotation on its own would be enough to get it spinning. Take that, flat Earthers 😋
@@dyanosisand no electromagnetic effects that slow it down. Levitating something in a magnetic field will always cause induced currents. If the levitating part has no electric resistance it will still have these currents and will be a rotating magnet. So you have to make sure that nothing could pick up that magnetic field anywhere. Wait now it really looks impossible. Especially if you think of gravity this can cause all sorts of slowdown. I wouldn't recommend thinking about it for too long another mind will always come up with a thing that could disturb the rotation.
I love how you kept improving the machine and literally pushed Legos to their limit! Great vid as always!
Thank you 🙂
How dare you, it’s LEGO®.
@@RaceEngineerJeff Well, nobody asked for your opinion.
@@MCThomasNtrue
This guy makes it look like legos have no limits!
If you can report the dimensions and alloy of the tops you’re using, I’m sure a kind materiel scientist in the comments can run a finite element analysis and tell you how fast the top can spin without exploding. I eagerly await the next version. *Inception theme music playing*
You're probably right! Any kind material scientists out there??? 😉 That'd be so crazy so get a top to spin that fast!
@@BrickMachines1 The maximum speed the edge of a cylinder of a given material can rotate is equal to the square root of its specific tensile strength (tensile strength over density). A hard steel has a typical tensile strength of ~1000MPa and density of ~8,000 kg/m³. So the max edge speed is ~350m/s. Assuming a 4cm diameter => 0.126m circumference, then the max rotational speed is 2777 resolutions per second or 166,000 rpm. ... but for heavens sake, don't trust my numbers on the strength or density.
@@tompw3141 @BrickMachines1 I think we found the scientist!!
might need more than just safety goggles
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You might find some use in Lego compatible metal stuff like : an Aluminum Liftarm with a bearing, or a steel axle to prevent breaking, melting, bending and achieve higher speeds since the bearing will probably decrease the friction.
I love that idea! I need to try those out!
@@BrickMachines1 Carbon axles are very common nowadays as the axles are easily the weakest point in most machines.
I definitely need to find some carbon fiber axles then!
@@BrickMachines1 I'm already looking forward to see you try to synthesize LK-99 and combine it with magnetic levitation once you've already installed carbon fiber axles! Don't forget to pull vacuum around the setup to avoid aerodynamic losses.
oh right someone also did some testing to see what each material was best for, axle wise atleast
So.. who defeated you at Beyblades that you needed to make this video?
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this is seriously impressive, both from a technical standpoint and an editorial standpoint
Wow, thank you so much!! Very happy you enjoyed the build and even the editing ☺️
You should put this in a vacuum chamber to test the effect of air resistance
Great idea!
It's sad that wasn't part of the initial build.
But make it with Lego 🤣
@@pissoffeachother tbh i think thats impossible, but this man could probably do it
@@light_swich it's easy. get an airtight container and run some tubes through a lego pump. there's some videos out there already
Looking forward to hearing from you in the comments! Leave me one below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can 😄
Can you try to make a cards shuffler ? 💀
@@Padz. That's a very cool idea! I'll add it to my list and it might happen at some point 👍
@@BrickMachines1 Thanks ! I think it could be amazing !
@@Padz. Yeah I think it'd be very cool! And probably it would have some tricky mechanisms, so that'd be fun! 👍
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those gear teeth gonna be *WORN OUT* 😅
Lol yeah they would need to be changed eventually! But I have the motor ramp up pretty slowly so that the initial high stress is decreased by a lot 👍
@@BrickMachines1 Maybe you could use some kind of grease or lubricant on the gears, and axle wear could be reduced by specialized third-party Lego Technic™ liftarms with axle bearings in them
That's a great idea, and I tried that out but it seemed to actually make it worse lol! Like without silicone lubricant did better than with for some reason haha. But yeah I think you're right that metal axles and bearings would help a ton!
14:38 god dang that turbo flutter sound man 😮💨😮💨🔥🔥
What if you try to make a car entirely out of those technic suspension pieces, of any shape or size that lego makes, and test it outdoors or on a super bumpy track of some kind? I think that could be very interesting.
Great idea! Thank you!
@@BrickMachines1👍 😄👍
Your build ideas, filming and explanations never cease to impress! Well done
Wow, thank you for such a nice comment! 😁
One day people are going to see a man dressed in a Lego iron man suit zooming across the sky. Good work!😊
That'd be so cool!
8:59 Really nice use of that new Archimedes screw part!
An incredible concept, as usual!
Thank you very much!
This is amazing! You push Lego to the absolute max! Love your work!
Thanks so much!
It's so satisfying to see that each iteration brings some improvement
A better made endurance top with this setup could go crazy
Who hurt bro in a beyblade contest💀
Lego motor at 20k RPMs?? Sign me up all day. I loved the failed tweezer design 😅 Also, I think the 99.59 minute timer should be on the thumbnail. 🤘🏻
Thanks so much! Lol that design wasn't the best 🤣 Great idea! I'll give that some thought!
You're always so creative with your ideas. I'm always excited to see what you come up with next.
Lubricate the bottom of the concave glass to further reduce friction on the top.
Great idea! Why didn't I think of that!
11 out of 10 for perseverance, as always with your creations😁. What a great video, inspirational if not a little expensive😂. Thanks for sharing and hurry up with the next project whatever it might be.
Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂 Not to worry, I've got some more great projects on the way 😁
Didn't think I could watch a video about spinning tops with Lego for 18 minutes, yet here I am! Let's see what other crazy experiments you can come up with!
Awesome! I love to hear that! I massively underestimated the length of this video. I thought it was going to be like 9 minutes lol. Thanks for watching it all! 🙂
This guy's content reminds me of the little bit of work I got to do with nxt's back in middle school where I made a sumo bot. I really miss getting to work with them cus it was a lot of fun but it was all the schools property so I don't get to do that stuff anymore. But seeing what he does here with his motors and controllers is just awesome to see cus it's like seeing some of the ideas I came up with back then brought into reality. Truly awesome stuff dude, and so creative. Love to see it all.
OMG, Daniel! Your latest video on spinning a top forever! The very, very best! I can't believe it's almost twice as long as some of the others and I was mesmerized through the whole thing. You are amazing!
Aw thank you so much! 😁 Yeah when I saw it was 18 minutes I was quite surprised, but it was really a fun video to put together! Thanks so much for watching it and leaving me such a nice comment ❤️
The things and ideas you build a truly insane, i aspire to have that great of a mind
Wow, thank you so much! What a nice comment!
@@BrickMachines1 no problem, just supporting one of my fav channels!
You're amazing, thank you!
I can’t for the life of me figure out why I watched this entire video
Great job, love watching these. Keeps my curiosity going.
Omg u uploaded yay! I discovered ur channel yesteday and bingeed like ALL of ur vids!
Wow, thank you so much! Glad you enjoy the channel 🙂
Can we appreciate how much time this man dedicated for our entertainment? Not only spending time designing the machines but also waiting and seeing how the perform. Amazing
I'm new to this channel, and I have to say that this video is just the type of nerd I am - testing different variables and going for a top result. It made me happy to see someone else with my same mindset actually building and filming and doing the math to predict results and finding inconsistencies and the errrors at fault. I only had NXT bricks and didn't have enough pieces to do much with them, but I absolutely love this. It's amazing how much technology and Lego have come together! We're a long way from NXT bricks now!
This is such a thoughtful comment 🙂 Thank you so much! ☺️
This is really awesome thank you for sharing
Thanks for this entertaining video. I enjoyed. I wonder how longs it took you to make this video available
I just want to say thank you for including captioning on the video! I usually watch videos with subtitles even though english is my only language and know that often most videos donn't go through the effort to put their own in, relying on youtube's terrible auto captionns, but even though you only have text, you thought of all the non-english speaking people who watch and that makes me quite happy to see, so thank you!!!!
I'm so glad you mentioned that! It is a lot of work, but I would love these videos to be able to be seen by more than just English-speaking people. 🙂
Very cool! Probably limited by parts melting? maybe a contraption that uses air to keep it going? :D
Air would probably be a bad idea, as unfortunately fluids introduce turbulence, which would slow the top down.
@@zacdye7922 but.. The jet would speed it up... Lol
man i love the sound of the spinning top with the glass
Came here looking for the Inception comment and not found it yet. If it spins forever....is this video a dream? Should have put the Inception theme at the end too 😂
I miss him talking😢
He talked?
I haven't even watched the full video but this is already cool! Keep it up :)
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest of it!
Just....wow. I VERY MUCH loved the iterative process used and the refusal to stop until it was pushing the very edge of what was possible!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome! Could you maybe make the glass "floor" rotate to add energy to the top without touching it from above?
Yes, great suggestion!
Bro I LOVE this! This we be such good decoration! Also if you ever upgrade it, what about using metal axels to fix the problems you had earlier in the video.
Thank you! Great idea! Yeah I need to try some of those out!
@@BrickMachines1also use metal gears and exchange other affected parts mith metal!
@@Wolang13 That would be awesome! I'm going to try some metal parts out soon I think! That'll help push the limits even more 👍
@@BrickMachines1it’s a cool decoration for sure but isn’t very noisy every 5 minutes? Or is the sound not too bad
@@loen9591 No you're right, it is pretty noisy 😂 I'd have to find a way to quiet it down
Nice! I _was_ hoping you might try electromagnetic induction though. two or four spinning magnets underneath would keep the top spinning forever with no physical contact necessary! Could be a lot cleaner
I love that idea! I'm considering a part 2 and would love to attempt that!
@@BrickMachines1 Awesome, I cannot wait! Electromagnetism is amazing, I cannot overstate how excited I am for part 2 now :D. Algorithm might boost your video too given the recent hype around LK-99
I really love that idea and gave me one for an existing issue for what i have to test. THANK YOU
Of course! You're very welcome 😁
you have some of the finest engineering iv seen keep up the great work. it may be Lago but that's not a benefit but a challenge to work around.
Thank you, that means a lot!
Cool 😃 I'd use teflon grease to lower friction and avoid heat on bearing points and gears, it will last longer and maybe rotate a bit faster. ✌️
Would lubricant on the glass surface also help? I can imagine most of the energy lost is still lost from surface friction. Maybe a specialty ultra-polished glass would help as well to reduce micro-abrasions that absorb energy.
Thanks for the great tip! I'd love to try that!
Ah, good thinking as well! So long as the top can stay balanced I think that could probably work
As soon as I saw the thumbnail my mind immediately went to something coming down and re-spinning the top so it would never end, and I was not disappointed :D Very interesting to see what affects different things had on the top's spin duration, also holy cow 19k RPM is fast xD
Great thinking! And yeah 19k RPM is awesome!
as soon as i saw the thumbnail my mind immediately went to a gif of an anime girl trapped in a cnc
@@pbjwizard umm...alright then
As soon as i saw the thumbnail my mind immediately went to inception
Love these kind of videos, great stuff
Thank you!!
This shows the true potential of LEGO Technic and motors. I am impressed in how LEGO pieces can hold up to spinning a desk toy. 17:19 I thought my internet broke 🤣🤣
instead of machine dropping down to give more momentum, switch powerup system to compressed air. Start it in the usual way, then have initial system lift up and away only to be replaced with compressed air nozzle (can be from a can of compressed air used for cleaning keyboards if you do not have a compressor), then give it a burst every 5 minutes or so to keep it going. Would make it far more classy compared to the whole " grab hold of it and restart it" system you ended up with.
Build a much larger top, that has a wireless charging coil on the inside of it, that can wirelessly charge to keep itself spinning only using self contained systems.
I love that idea! Then it could spin forever, even without a machine!
@@BrickMachines1 You could also have a spinning magnet below the top that spins the top, but if the magnet stopped the top would too.
DUDE! I watched this all the way through and by the end, my mind was blown! This is so cool! Congratulations! This really is incredible, I can't even imagine how long this must've taken you. I hope you made good money from it.
3:22 Heh! I was about to say "You should use a heavy top" and I think that's the same one I got as a stocking bonus last Christmas.
Okay, can we just appreciate how man basically made a v16 with Legos? Like HOW
Check into quad copter motors. Using a ESC and servo tester, I imagine you could get much higher RPMs direct drive from the motor. In addition, measuring the starting RPM of the top when you start the timer would be interesting.
Great suggestions. Thank you!
"thats a problem" had me cracking😂🤣🤣
Lol me too when it happened 🤣
this made me legit smile at the end, when you reached infinity.
So glad you enjoyed it :)
watched with my partner. they described it as mad science and i frankly agree. incredible.
The effort put into this video and that the fact that you respond to comments has earmed you a sub.
Wow, thank you very much ☺️
This is awesome! It was really fun watching the trial and error, and then when you made it go forever... wow! And yes, cool lights are very important 😂
Thank you! Totally agree, cool lights are key :)
@@BrickMachines1 That rhymed 😂
🤣 I didn't even know! Hahaha
I haven't fully finished the video yet (about 2/3 of the way through) but I wonder if spinning the base would get the top to stay up for longer, since theoretically there'd be less friction. Even better if there'd ever be a Lego RPM monitor to match the rotations of the top to the base lol
Awesome video and demonstration of engineering - well done.
Thank you very much :)
Damn nice work. I was wonderinig if you could turn the table to remove the friction losses of the tip (& even those from the air).
Welp, another lego channel to binge watch at 1am. Thanks for showing up in the recommended
There has to be a guiness book of reccords in this somewere, brilliant video really enjoyed the evolution to the end
Yeah! Maybe "Longest top spin recorded by a LEGO® robot" 😁 Thanks, that's awesome!
I love watching your vids!
Thank you so much!
Great build! I'd love to see more obscure ways of adding external energy. For example, you could make the glass plate spin at an insane speed. Or build something similar to the "drive/actuator" that just hovers over/around the top to make the air around it spin.
If the glass spins at the same speed as the top, does the top just fall over?
Great suggestions! Thank you! I'd love to try some of those :)
I believe you are correct, but if the glass plate spins faster than the top then that would likely work
Man, even 3 mins Is impressive!
Thank you! I thought so too!
now all i need is a 24/7/365 livestream of this and i can be happy
the record going to 3:34 to 4:45 hurt so much I was screaming at the screen for you to stop the timer a second earlier 🤣
Perhaps make the energy adding function take place every 9-10 minutes instead of 5. That way, energy consumption, and wear and tear gets reduced by half. Both the Black and Silver tops have been shown to pass 10 minutes by a 3 and 1, without too much spin fall off.
That’s a very cool and interesting design, using Lego train wheeled as the parts making the top spin
sooooo cool. Love your content, keep it up
Thanks so much!
@@BrickMachines1 I love that you make cool things, but also that your a small enough channel to still talk to people like me :D
thoroughly love it! a mini spinning adventure
Thank you! So happy you enjoyed it 🙂
shorter things need less gyroscopic forces to stay upright therefore keeps spinning at lower speeds and means it is spinning for a lot longer
Such achievements should be entered in the Guinness Book of Records👍😀
That would be epic!
The interstellar-esque finale had me tearing up. Beautiful work.
Thank you so much ☺️
that noise once you added the glass is bliss
I know right, I love that noise :D
YES! we have cool light... thats the most important thing we got :D 🤣🤣🤣
if you made the glass dish rotate slightly in the same direction as the top, would that not reduce the friction between the two and thus help the top spin for longer?
This video is awesome and a really good representation for this channel.
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it :)
I was hoping for a spiral vortex of compressed air from beneath the top coming up through the base plate to reduce the weight of the top a bit and provide enough air friction to keep the top spinning without the need to be touched again.
Giving titan vibes with that controller
always a good day when you see a new brick machines video
I love to hear that! Thank you! 🙂
"Once Tempo starts spinning, it will never stop till the end of time." Faust (Beyblade metal masters)
It was very entertaining good job. Could you try using silicone lubricant on the mechanisms and/or on the glass ? The launcher is effective but to maintain the rotation perhaps a pneumatic device generating an air vortex using Legos pumps could also work and would be visually stunning
I’m curious if something similar could be done with Euler’s disc, a disc specifically designed to spin for as long as possible
I'll have to check out Euler's disk. That sounds really cool and could probably be used here too!
Epic man this is so ultimately amsome
Thank you so much!
At around 2.000 rpm, I would strongly recommend using a bit of vaseline or mild oil to decrease friction. Lego pieces can literally wear down to dust over longer periods of time. At nearly 10.000 rpm, I saw some parts being torn apart by the sheer forces being applied on them (= me trying to build a Lego "vacuum cleaner" with 3 XL motors...)
Great suggestion!
I'm curious if the hard tip wore a slight hole in the glass, as it seemed to be staying incredibly still a lot of the time without any amount of horizontal movement. I doubt it would affect the spin speed but I am curious.
I'm glad you asked that question because I was curious about the same thing during this build! As far as I can tell though, the glass didn't have any hole starting to be bored into it. There were a couple of scratches though, and I'm curious as to when that occurred!
I'd like to see this done again but swap out the glass plate with a Teflon base with a slight concave
Great suggestion!
Legos ... and safety glasses. That's a beautiful thing.
Great content, love it
Thank you so much!
he waited all of that time lol🤣
OMG I know you flicking that Lego piece HAD to hurt at 14:20... That hurt me just watching.. Love the videos though. Did not know I needed Lego experiments in my life. Thank you. Earned a subscription from me good sir. Have a wonderful rest of your day; to you and to any who happen to read this, love you!
Lol I thought it would too, but somehow it didn't hurt at all 😂 Thank you so much! Experiments like these are so fun! Like how can a top go from 13 seconds to 13 minutes? Lots of little improvements lead to big changes 👍
I bet some day all the top brick channels will get together and build the Lego Hadron Collider.