Creeper Army Built By LEGO® Robot Factory!

this is a Lego machine that builds Minecraft creepers from scratch it has 10 Hoppers of Lego bricks that feed an assembly line where each piece is assembled the machine finishes a new creeper every 11 seconds that's almost 8 000 per day if that weren't enough the creepers are then loaded onto a conveyor belt that drops them into a catapult to be launched 17 Motors all work in sync to make this happen you'll be totally amazed but Steve is not going to be happy the final product is complex so let me break down what is happening first I made a creeper so I know what the factory would have to do it uses just 10 common parts that you probably have in your collection for the face I printed a bunch on sticker paper I tried a whole bunch but scissors worked better with an idea of what the factory needed I got to work this first section will prepare the Creeper's feet to connect to the main body [Music] there are ramps for two Hoppers and a tunnel so the 1x2 brakes can be placed under the 2x3 plate [Music] I made a couple of tall Hoppers so they could hold a ton of bricks this design is adapted from my fellow Builder JK brickworks who had a similar design for one by one plates the transparent pieces will allow us to see the parts falling and alert as to when the hopper needs a refill these parts keep the bricks from bunching up while inside the hopper since they allow the part to just barely fit they're easy to fill up by hand or with a tool that I'll show you later watch the pieces appear at the bottom when I drop them in and here's what it looks like when looking through the transparent pieces when the gear racks go to their retracted location the slots are refilled thanks to gravity [Music] next I needed the long conveyor belt I tried These Chains these other chains tracks and more but the creepers kept catching on them so I settled on this instead we're gonna need another base plate there's a ton of functionality built into this custom conveyor when the gear is on topspin the conveyor moves the creepers along and the gears on bottom raise Stoppers that will stop the creepers at each station on the assembly line I'll show it to you with motors in a second but before that I started to prepare the assembly stations I built a few variations of this same design since these parts will be pressed into place we'll need supports in the vertical Direction I use transparent Parts wherever possible even Technic beams so that the build process could be seen easily this was the hardest challenge of this entire build these all hinge right now but I'll fix that later here's the main section of tiles the creeper will slide across okay back to the custom conveyor this long axle is connected to a motor and has lots of bevel gears on it once again all the gears meshed on the right teeth you can see that this motor controls the Blue pieces to stop the creepers on the conveyor things are coming together but there's way better things ahead I can't wait until these 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machines that was key for this build Let's test this the creepers don't catch and they move along great plus the Stoppers work is planned time to add more Hoppers and part dispensers specifically for this section of the creeper one goes on this side and a couple more on the other side so check this out as the feet and Main 2x3 plate come out of station one they'll come to this station then tiles will be dispensed and pushed onto the creeper but to make sure they are aligned I added this it lets the creeper go underneath but aligns the tiles to the creeper here's another fun build technique plates with holes and tiles with holes allow Technic axles to be placed inside plus they have the right spacing for gearing this will help with achieving the goal of using just one motor to dispense the parts for every station at the same time except for the first station [Music] I added a couple more gear racks and finished the gearing [Music] spinning one axle pushes both tiles onto the creeper at once that's cool but it gets way better hang tight to see it more Hoppers and gear racks incoming these last ones are offset by a half stud so the creeper head and 2x2 tile are still aligned to the center of the conveyor belt this is looking great so far [Music] oh [Music] check it out when this motor spins every gear rack will push apart into each station of the assembly line even for the one on the opposite side [Music] now that's oddly satisfying the dispensed parts are going to need to be aligned to or else they'll just shoot off like this so I made a custom alignment wall for each station that will Aid in the assembly time to get the rest of the press supports connected and fix that hinging issue [Music] this piece helped but it needed more so I added these three Technic connector assemblies much better I've talked all about the creeper Parts being pressed together but now I'm finally going to show how that's done this assembly will move up and down if bevel gears aren't the star of this build these two parts would be just like the mini round bricks plates and tiles you've seen throughout this build these help to eliminate Parts being misaligned [Music] foreign will be perfect for pressing each part I attached them to the machine like this [Music] those look great each station needs very specific requirements for its press so each of these had to be powered separately I had a few NXT Motors laying around and they would be perfect for this I connected them to the Technic frame and each press axle foreign these gears for proper spacing and for easy manual control when needed now that I had a better idea of what the machine would look like I could finally motorize Station 1 using a medium motor and a chain [Music] the machine is almost complete but you know what we're missing a catapult the fling the finished creepers into Minecraft to chase Steve don't worry I'll tile off all these base plates to make them look nice I needed another conveyor to lift the creepers into the catapult so check this out when the creeper is finished being built it'll transfer from one conveyor to the other after reaching the top it'll drop into the waiting catapult I actually explained exactly how this catapult Works in my last video so check out that video after this one here's the rest of the transparent hoppers for each type of Creeper piece connecting those went pretty quickly the last thing is to connect were the controllers three ev3s and two nxts I connected these high up so that my camera could see all the cool workings behind the machine where wires wouldn't get in the way the ev3s will communicate with Bluetooth but I also gave this a try it's a communication system using light sensors to send and receive signals the main eb3 will communicate with the nxts using this foreign lines of code later the program was done I ran five power cords through this wire conduit so it wouldn't run out of power then I tiled it off to make it look nice here's one part going through the build first so you can see each station and then I'll show you every station running at the same time [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign let's get some creepers to each station and run the whole machine and get the Hoppers filled up too [Music] finally time for the catapult [Music] and that and that don't subscribe huh I'm kind of kidding but actually sharing this video is the way to help me the most and I'd really appreciate it check out one of these other awesome builds too thanks for watching

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Id: kiiL8ke5j94

Length: 11min 2sec (662 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 31 2022