The Red Cube Factory 4x SBricks, 13x PF motors and a Gopro

[shadow_elenter]

Hello builders!,

It has been finished weeks ago but now I finally got down to editing the video and posting it

The red cube factory

 

 

Some years ago I wanted a motorcycle and I sold my LEGO thinking I should grow up, sell all of it and put the money in my new passion... BIG MISTAKE!
After years without LEGO, I still really missed it, so I bought a few sets and a load of PF motors and sbricks!
This has been my first build in years so I came up with this project to reacquire my LEGO building skills and get a feel fot all the (to me) new parts.
The idea was to transport a 6x6x6 studs cube trough a conveyor system using as many different techniques in the most compact space possible  and make it as big as I had parts and motors for.

It wasn't long before I realized the gopro session 5 I recently bought has almost the same dimensions as a 5x5x5 studs cube! So I rebuild the (then 25% finished) factory to transport that instead because of awesomeness of course!
Later I Realized that this is way more convenient since the (for me) new stud-less style LEGO uses mostly uneven sized parts, lesson learned.
 
I know some of you like to run complex MOC's with one motor, but then you can only watch... 
Don't get me wrong, I love the timing aspect and I see it as a true art, I just prefer to control MOC's with sliders and switches (so called "playing")

That's why I used 4 SBricks and 13 motors to get everything to work.
 

SPECS:

4x SBrick
2x battery box
2x PF lights
4x  PF M motor
4x  PF L motor
4x  PF XL motor
1x  PF servo motor

dimentions: 530mm x 370mm x 295mm
weight: 5.1KG
build time: 3 weeks

I apologize for the poor video quality After filming I took apart the MOC only to realize when I wanted to edit that the quality was so poor.

What do you guys think?
Any tips, tricks & techniques to improve my upcoming builds are more than welcome.

Edited February 11, 2017 by shadow_elenter

[Blakbird]

This is a super creative build.  Not only is it a mechanical marvel, but making it take a GoPro through the machine was a stroke of genius.  The video is very well edited as well.

[lcvisser]

I love it  Very nicely done and the GoPro tour through the factory is a nice touch.

Personally, I think moving boxes around in a useless fashion is a wonderful past time 

[captainmib]

Fantastic mechanics.

It has a bit of a "useless machine" vibe to it, really creative.

[Jeroen Ottens]

Brilliantly useless machine , I love the overall appearance and colourscheme. Very well done.

[kieran]

Excellent video, great machine 

[JJ2]

GBC 2.0, Great Box Contraption

I like the idea, very well done for your first MOC in a while, it would be awesome if there was a 360* camera that was the same size so you could use a VR and see everything around you.

[Leonardo da Bricki]

This is pretty cool, so many different methods used to move the cube and GoPro around.

[2LegoOrNot2Lego...]

Very cool and totally agree with @Blakbird!!! Leaves me wondering though why you already took it apart...  

[Kmuffin]

Excellent! You put a lot of effort,time and money. wish I could make something like this.

[MIchaelF]

Brilliant!

[shadow_elenter]

On 9-2-2017 at 10:54 AM, 2LegoOrNot2Lego... said:

Very cool and totally agree with @Blakbird!!! Leaves me wondering though why you already took it apart...  

Hello,

Yep... its done... reduced to one huge pile of parts 

 

For me, lego is for building...I like building better than having shelves filled with MOC's
This way, I can afford to build models like the red cube factory. There's over 700€ worth of lego and sbricks in this one build you see
So, if I feel like building I'll photograph and film the MOC and get my girlfriend to help me deconstruct and re-sort everything in sorter boxes(took 4 hours on this MOC !!!)

Currently I'm building the next multi-sbrick-MOC so stay tuned 

Thank You for all the support builders!!

[Lox Lego]

This is my first time seeing this build. I guess I didn't know what to expect from the title.i was delightfully surprised! I'd have to same my favourite was the last hopper mechanism to move the box at the end. Thanks for sharing 

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Great video and great MOC!

Impressive mechanisms ...out of my league 

[Graydingo]

Awesome MOC, love the gopro element. Echo the useless machine vibe comment. This would be a great desk toy!

[agrof]

Great plant for carrying a camera around , really enjoyed all the mechanism You built in it. 

I miss so much such educational official sets...

Edited February 11, 2017 by agrof

[JJ2]

16 hours ago, shadow_elenter said:

Hello,

Yep... its done... reduced to one huge pile of parts 

That is one big pile of bricks, I always thought it would be cool to make a planet orrery using the 1/4 BWE wheel gear rack parts but I have never gotten them.

[shadow_elenter]

On 11-2-2017 at 3:56 AM, Lox Lego said:

I'd have to same my favourite was the last hopper mechanism to move the box at the end.

That's funny, out of all the techniques that was the least interesting to build In fact, that was the last module I made to complete the loop. My plans were way bigger, but I ran out of motors and the hopper was my "1-motor to close the loop" solution.

I Most enjoyed big arm with the locking gate & ejector pin. It was the first time I ever used the huge yellow arches, really interesting to play around with

 

Luckily, I got my hands on some more PF motors since then and I'm currently 50% done with a MOC utilizing 20 channels, most likely even more (waiting for the sensors and 2x SBrick+ pakkage to be delivered).

 

teaserrrrr...

 

 

Edited February 13, 2017 by shadow_elenter