Building and testing a wind powered Lego rail car including energy storage to drive the train if there is no wind.
Chapters:
00:00 Rail
03:42 Train Engine
05:31 Wind Turbine
07:32 Test 1
08:00 Energy Storage
10:33 Control Unit
12:02 Test 2
13:05 Big Energy Storage
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Are you an Engineer, or are you just a genius? That's amazing! Keep it Up. And happy New year too!
You are underrated
after this vid can you make a long track? and some more energy to this engine?
Ok
why don't you use an electric fan? just use a Lego fan? why
I bet the creator of Lego never thought it would be used in so many insane ways.
I mean originally it was just a couple of bricks. He'd be real surprised now.
Originally it was only square bricks,now there are thousands of bricks that are extremely small and curved and angled Lego has improved greatly and it still uses the same system as it did originally The inventor was a very smart man
So true
Dont take the Lord's name in vain! MISTER LEGO to you!
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 it was always in that price science first created
I'd love to see the storage/Wind control automated: Have it so that so long as there is sufficient torque on the Wind generator, the train is moved and the Weight is raised, then when the torque dips below a certain amount, then the weight starts to fall.
Exactly what went through my head, that would be sweet
Thats what is
That what i tough
@@adrianaperales9981 go learn English before you type kid
@@flames4494 They might not have English as a first language??? Best only to criticise somebody's use of language if they are being hypocritical- that is, telling others off for incorrect spelling while they themselves use poor practice.
"Welcome to the lego shop. How many gray pieces do you need?" *"Yes"*
theres a thing in my local lego shop where you can buy a cup and fill it with as many lego as a cup can have *25 lego cups today*
You didn’t just build a wind powered train you built a whole infrastructure around it
I was initially suspicious of your loco motive, but you eventually elevated the build and ultimately I was blown away.
SUSpicious
*amogus*
*sus*
@@lennyabsin8265 amongus is not funny anymore
@@peisevlogs3431 I agree tho
Is there no mechanical way to charge the "battery" while also driving the train? Split the power automatically until the battery is full, then divert all power to the locomotive.
Yes there is, the battery has to have less weight for this and there needs to be more wind. The train can also be driven super fast by battery and wind in combination
@@BrickTechnology but if you just increased the leverage on the pulley by adding more pulleys then you wouldn’t have to have more wind or less weight? It would take longer to charge but that also means that it would run longer once fully charged?
@@parkeryj3135 It barely has enough power to keep the train moving right now. If you added another pulley, it would probably be too weak.
@@Barnaclebeard another pully would actually decrease the load because it would have more leverage. The pully doesn’t increase friction all to much
what it really need is a manually locking differential instead of an open one.
This channel is extraordinary, there is always a flaw and then he finds a solution, and he finishes what has to get done. He goes step by step process and he doesn't skip, he uses what he has and makes what his brain puts it as what he sees. Bravo.
Just like an engineer.
He's using a battery to power a fan to blow another fan to pull a pulley system to lift a weight that pulls another pulley that powers a belt that drives a train with no engine back and forth. This is incredible engineering.
😂
Well, it's not completely useless as long as we're having fun :)
I realized that while building your energy storage system you could be utilizing chained pulleys ("block and tackle") to increase your mechanical advantage, which would let you use a heavier weight! With a few more pulleys you should be able to store dramatically more power in a shorter tower. SmarterEveryDay has a fantastic video on pulleys if you wanna read up on it.
I tried, but friction increases and it gets stuck more often
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How can you be so good at building lego you are very inspiring
I was building lego technic since 6 years old
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May be your parents are affordable 😉😉😉 Not mine
@@BrickTechnology jesus! 6!?! Omg you’re so smart
@@Juan-bm7nr LMAO
This guy seriously built a lego wind machine to power his lego wind machine. it's magnificent!
Lego Technic has come a long way from when I was a kid back in the 90's. Really enjoy watching these videos! Calming and educational. Video Editing is top notch 👍
Thank you, this is why I got back into lego. The pieces these days are just incredible
This sort of innovation is what will lead the future
I love videos like this that can demonstrate so many engineering principles with very few words. Bonus ASMR effects too.
HOLY SHIT IT'S YOU MATT
Das ist besser, als alles, was Lego bisher auf dem Markt geworfen hatten.
I love that Lego, when used a certain way, has a very industrial revolution aesthetic.
Thank god, a new video. I can't get enough of your work.
More to come!
I love how you engineer this shit out of nothing, solving each problem when it comes to you. It's smooth af to watch 👍
I love the concept of "I'll use a motor to power this wind turbine to drive this train without a motor!" Absolutely insane build guy great job!
I love how you stored potential energy, makes me think of how water towers work to supply water even when everyone is using the pumps
So using power to generate wind to move a windwill, sounds like a train engine with extra steps. I can't believe how intriguing this channel is watching a grown ass man playing with Lego, the ideas, the way to build it all, overcoming difficulty and making it work, it's so great.
Pretty clever demonstration of the conversion between potential and kinetic energy.
The simple way you used to change the train direction is so effective and ellegant. I would never even think about that
I like how you do adjustable chain tension. Definitely going to use that in my builds.
Really cool, I'd like to see some sort of flywheel introduced for smoothing out the energy input, and maybe a speed governor to to enable energy be sent to storage as well as the load.
In a perfect illustration as to why relaying on wind is so ineffective, you have huge surplus and then huge deficit when it comes to energy use and storage.
New idea, the Wind and Weight Drop Generators feed a Electric Generator and that is hooked up to a 9V Lego Train track, testing it out as you add more weight to the motor truck
Fantastic. It must take such a long time to plan and execute the build all while filming it. The editing of the build sequences especially must be mind numbingly challenging. Thanks for the great videos.
Amazing build, cool seeing wind power integrated into LEGO!
This is the kind of stuff that inspires people to do cool things with Lego
O.o Wowwww I love it so so much. You reminded me when I was 5 years old to see other neighbors making robot toys.
The camera shots, the sound, the demonstration, the constructions, the subtitles... Superb!
Thank you so much
Windpowerd train The dutch: write that down write that down
I loved the gravity battery demonstration.
This is by far the coolest lego construction I have seen yet! My lego-loving inner-child is in awe!
Absolutely adore your builds with energy storages and other demonstrations of physical principles, videos like that would be really inspiring for children when they only begin learning physics at school! Thank you for putting so much time, effort and ingenuity in your videos!
FYI coupling rods on real locomotives need 90° offset (also known as "quartering") to prevent stalling
marvelous. I very much like the weight-tower at the end of the clip. The only thing missing is automatic power selection: if the wind blows, the train moves first on wind. At strong wind the weight is lifted as well. At no wind, the weight drives the train.
can we just appreciate how quiet he is while hes making this? most other channels have a 1 hour long video explaining how gears work.
Another brick experiment channel to kill my boredom +1 sub
I never thought it would work so clean, with the wind turbine that has so much power... The quality of your videos is enormously high, subscribed!
As a wind tubine and lego lover, this is ,,the most beautiful thing ive ever seen"
Legos have probably caused more people to become engineers than any other toy. What a marvelous invention.
Pls upload more!!
Would love to, but this video took me 2 months
how is it possible someone with this quality and creativity in their videos have so few subscribers? I love your videos and i cannot wait for the next one.
Why I feaking love this channel : 50% amazing ingeneering 50% imbricating sounds
I think we all know that feeling when you build something and you're like: -AWW YISS (5 seconds later) -NUUUUUUUU
I love your Videos, it's awesome to see how you overcome the challenges and improve the structure
Glad you enjoy it!
I'd love to see this done on a larger scale train, with turns and all
20:30 YES!!!!! a few moments later: NO! ... ig we all felt that XD
Those lego clicking sounds are simply therapeutic, I could watch these videos for days
this is beyond satisfying
This is really a great build. To increase the energy storage capacity you could also increase the mass of the weight and add another pulley to compensate for the bigger force. This would allow for a much more compact design.
The problem is this would increase friction. While the big tower build does not increase friction
lol idk why 12:41 made me laugh, thank you for the genius creativity
this guy is the real lego master
When you said “more energy” I didn’t expect _that_ much energy
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i love that you adjusted the gear ratio instead of just moving the fan, i mean wind machine, further away. subbed.
The only thing that's really missing is something to split up the input wind power, to make the train go while also taking some of the wind energy to pull up the gravity battery.
this is genuinely amazing. well done.
This guy is so underrated he deserves a lot more subs for what he making
I don't understand why so many people are disliking the video. This was peaceful and I had fun watching the whole process of trial and error to complete the project.
This is amazing. Instead of storing electricity, you just stored the kinetic energy in the form of a pully elevator. This is fantastic.
Amazing work. Can the turbine lift the weight while powering the train? What about a water pump or device that can lift water? You could store loads at a good height and then run it back over a waterwheel to power the train.
Very cleverly designed, i love it👍
Lego is Legend...and you Sir... make it .brilliant !!!
Well I like how he takes the phrase "sky is the limit" as a practical example, I'm excited to see what's next.
It would be fun to use a battery tester, to calculate accurately the amount of capacity that is lost from the input of the fan over to the storage of gravity.
Really awesome work. Most enjoyed!
If you use a worm gear on the windmill input, it would automatically lock itself if there's no wind since worm gears can't be back driven. You could also use a governor to limit the speed of the locomotive so that excess wind energy could be diverted to the elevator while the locomotive is still running without the need for switching.
Didn't think I'd see wireless power solutions demoed on this channel, let alone this video. Very cool
I stumbled upon your channel and these videos are great! Im subscribing. 😎
Omg keep up with the content ✅
I like how the lego pieces snap on satisfying😊
Omg, I'm fascinated about this, never thought an elevator could be used that way, this is genius)
Awesome build!
This could be enhanced with a bank of kinetic batteries, probably a 1x2 or 2x2 combination (i.e. when 1 is charged to the top it flicks a switch to charge another, and only 1 discharges at a time). Other comments have mentioned train operation and battery charging simultaneously, and use of water wheel functionality as well as combined with wind and gravity, with a few tweaks this could come close to a perpetual sustainable machine.
That would be possible, you could add many wind turbines and many batteries and connect them with differentials, no switch needed. If one does not charge anymore, the next will charge through the differential. Water would work too.
dude if i had a child like this i would be literally proud of him/her
I've been playing a lot of Timberborn lately and this kind of wind-powered gravity battery setup is awesome to see in action in real life, even at a scale model. Keep it up!
make a more realistic version, a cargo goal, and more distance. if you somehow do all of that, you should be the person to innovate travel
I would have never thought to use gravity to make a sort of battery for potential energy that was really smart
This bro has to become a world class engineer, he has more than enough talent to build a flying carrier in real life. This guy is the best engineer anyone can find in the world. He is super creative bro. Keep going BRO, your awesome, you are the BEST. ALL THE BEST
it always makes me wonder that such experts like you can create stuff that blows our minds. while Lego itself can't design models that don't break apart when our kids play only with them. in any way, another great video and an even greater creation!
Fun fact did anyone know that Lego first made wooden toys
Literally few months ago engineers designed a way to store energy with the same mechanism like u have used on the video, but it works with lots concrete blocks. I’m amazed with the video mate, congratulations.
gravity batteries are actually decades old but are making an awesome comeback :) look into pumped storage if ya wanna see some amazing stuff :D
Incredible engineering, a lot of different concepts went into this one!
That snap sound is soooooo asmr
at the end lol
lol lol guy
Like your other videos, this one is also very impressive It's not so important, but there is a little hiss noise in the video. It would be better if that's not what I can suggest. Thanks for making this video.
Thanks for your feedback, can you give me more info please? When do you hear the noise?
Doing it on that table makes some very satisfying clicks.
These are so amazing! Would be cool to have something like this as a garden decoration. A wind powered machine doing something unique
Cool stuff, but I was envisioning a train that has some kind of wind turbine on its own when I read the title :D
I wonder how many legos he has
He probs has a whole factory full of legos 😂
The double tap on test 2 was so smooth😁
What an incredible amount of air is being pushed- and received by those propellors. Impressive.
imagine he put a hole in the ceiling
Where did you get all these parts from? Is there a technic kit i can buy?
Bricklink
@@BrickTechnology is there a specific kit you'd recommend? I've never used brick link before
And just like that, I learned how to fix the problems I had trying to design train wheels xD Also my jaw legit dropped at seeing the mechanical battery, holy shit
Brooooo, sikk. If it was to fast you know, just make it into a bullet train. Or a subway. I encourage you to make a part 2 of this absolutely INSANE BUILD.🎉