IPad Mini Holder

Happy Day Light Savings Time. Let us Spring forward into good weather.

Recently, a Knight of Bots Member, has created a handy device that will help with note-taking.
This consist of beams, pins, axles, and plates. This creation is programming free. Anyone can build it.
This project works with an iPad 4 mini. The gist of this is basically a creation that will hold your iPad, and then have a plate holder to hold your note pad. This is to help you take notes simultaneously with researching on your iPad.

The picture above is the front of the creation. As you can see it is the iPad and the notepad, being held by the invention.

From a left side angle we see the support of the Black beams. We also see the lifted bean as well holding and supporting the bottom of the iPad.

On the right side, you can see a better image of the support that holds the iPad. A three tier 9 hole beams are used. As well as a right angle beam to hold the iPad. 

Basically you can build this at home. With the right material you can build it. It doesn't have to be black, you can change the colour to your preference. 

Keep tune for the next blog post. Also keep tune for a Lego Digital Design Model of this. 

That's all folks.

The Spirit of Christ-mas!

You're a mean one Mr. Grinch! It's almost Christmas and one of the Knights of Bots member has designed, build and programmed a Church. We call it All Saints R.C. Church. Inside of this festive Church is a typical design of a Renaissance Roman Catholic Church. This Church changes with the season.

 

As you can see that wreaths and poinsettias are surrounding this marvelous beauty of art. 

Here are some closer views of the inside of the Church.

The Altar has two sets of Wreaths on each end right next tot the presiders chair in front of the tabernacle. 

              

  Another angle of the sanctuary. 

This is a view of the side of the church with some stain glass windows that are only visible to the people inside the church.

This structure has more than beauty, it has been programmed to play church chimes.

The loop is there to make the program repeat 2 times. Inside the loop is the two sound blocks that has the sound of the bells. A beautiful church model with beautiful chimes.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas! And A Happy New Year!

For more go to Brics2bots. -Antonio C.

A LEGO Power Functions Creation

One of the Knights Of Bots members recently began to work with LEGO Power Functions (also referred to as LEGO PFs).  After about a week of experimenting, the member came up with a weird LEGO Power Functions contraption (shown below).

The contraption

A picture of it from the bottom

Here is a video of the contraption at work:

The contraption was inspired by a book titled, The LEGO Technic Idea book: Fantastic Contraptions, by Yoshihito Isogawa. This book is filled with pictures of fantastic LEGO contraptions (hence the title). Upon reviewing the book, we were inspired to try out some of his brilliant ideas. 

This creation/contraption is a combination of two of the gearing systems found in Isogawa's book. Both gearing systems are powered by a LEGO PF rechargeable battery. The first gearing system is very simple. It consists of an old LEGO Technic motor (Electric RC Race Buggy Motor 2002) which actually has two axle holes for turning attachments, a bevel gear with twelve teeth, and a double bevel gear with 20 teeth. The gears result in a spinning motion, as shown below. This system can be found in pages 52 and 53 of the book.

The second gearing system, in my opinion, is very interesting. It is powered by a LEGO Power Functions Medium-Motor. There are 3 double bevel gears with 20 teeth and one double bevel gear with 12 teeth.

 As shown in the video below, the motor spins the 12 tooth double bevel gear to mesh with the 20 tooth double bevel gear. As the motor changes directions, the double bevel gears shift in the corresponding direction. If the motor was spinning to the right, the double bevel gears would shift to the right, causing the two gears to mesh with the double bevel gear on the right. If the motor were to shift to the left, the two gears would shift to the left, causing the to gears to mesh with the double bevel gear on the left. This gearing system can be found on pages 148 and 149 of the book. This gearing shift is what makes this contraption unique.

Feel free to make the contraption described in this article. If you would like to purchase the LEGO Power Functions kit, the LEGO Technic motor, or Yoshihito Isogawa's book, the links are at the end of this post. The link for Isogawa's website is down below too.

LEGO Technic motor

Power Functions M-Motor

LEGO Power Functions Motor Set

Yoshihito Isogawa's book

Yoshihito Isogawa's website