Lego’s stress test reveals the magic number is 37,112
— April 16th, 2013
The question was simple: “How many times can I assemble LEGO bricks before they wear out?” And Phillipe Cantin found the answer after building a machine to test it: it took 10 days and 37,112 assembling and disassembling actions.
He used an arm moved by a servo-motor, a infrared sensor validating if the lego was off or on, and an Arduino Uno controlling the machine. Here’s the video explanation of the machine and below another one after 102 hours into the ongoing test :
Stay tuned to Phillipe’s website as he said that he’s going to build a faster machine and right now he suggests:
Don’t try this at home. It’s long, noisy and cruel to LEGO bricks.
Categories:Arduino
April 16th, 2013 at 22:40:17
Arduino, you guys are awesome. Thanks!
April 17th, 2013 at 13:15:00
I would have thought the servo motor would wear out first.
April 17th, 2013 at 19:30:08
@saal – That was my (and my friends) guess also but the servos made it. The top one started to make a different noise on the 8th days but kept on working.
April 18th, 2013 at 07:23:09
Wouldn’t be simpler to analize the changes in power consuption of a motor that continuosly attach and detach a piece to a fixed one? When the consume is reduced of a certain percentage, the piece is worn.
April 18th, 2013 at 11:35:06
@koby – Good idea but, instead of using just that, I would add it as an extra data point in my next series of tests.
April 19th, 2013 at 10:14:51
@philipe: even better idea!
April 19th, 2013 at 10:37:31
@philipe: if you see that the power usage approch is good, the servo motor could be substitued with a linear actuator that maybe is less prone to wear in this case.
Maybe using Technics? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hls3vDzH6g
Or one taken by an old cdrom drive or printer.
April 22nd, 2013 at 02:04:33
Pretty great post. I simply stumbled upon your weblog and wanted to say that I have truly loved browsing your weblog posts. In any case I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I am hoping you write again very soon!
April 25th, 2013 at 02:09:22
Woah this weblog is excellent i love studying your posts. Stay up the great work! You already know, lots of persons are looking round for this info, you can aid them greatly.
April 25th, 2013 at 17:06:56
Good reading. Thank a lot for writing that. I’ll check to this site to read more and recommend my acquaintenances about your writing.
May 7th, 2013 at 05:44:05
Cheers with regard to spreading this particular operating individuals you truly realize what you are referring to! Book marked. Please additionally talk to this site Is equal to). We can easily have got a web page link trade deal among us all
May 11th, 2013 at 05:15:16
But, internet radio offers a whole lot more than just your
favorite music online. Some models, if they are equipped with remote start, will allow the customer to start the engine through the app wirelessly, doing
so from any place where there is a cell phone signal available.
Given the manner in which the internet and the World
Wide Web have invaded our lives over the past many years,
it is hardly surprising that music or rather
the radio would be one of the areas being dominated
by the internet.
May 13th, 2013 at 11:14:56
So now you can listen to any music from any where non-stop and cost free.
“Mike” is Mike Dean, according to the scanty information available,
and beyond that there’s not much about him. Most stations will give you names of their more popular hosts and ask you to talk with them.