This Lego robot builds the perfect house of cards
No time right now?
Stress in the home office or with the kids during distance learning? Then maybe a Lego robot that just builds a house of cards could help you slow down.
The Brazilian product designer Arthur Sacek has made a name for himself in the Lego fan community for a long time. To his Lego projects include various 3D printer variants, a device that can fold a paper airplane and then shoot it down, or a dance robot that uses hand movements for orientation. Now, after five years, Sacek has published another project on his YouTube channel with 20,000 subscribers.
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Lego robot is based on Education Spike Prime Set
This time the tinkerer brings a robot to build a perfect house of cards. Most of the parts come from the sets Lego Education Spike Prime and one associated extension set. This Lego series enables the programming of controllable components using drag & drop software based on the Scratch programming language. Python can also be used to enable robots to perform certain tasks.
Building a house of cards is definitely one of the more difficult tasks. Because here it depends on the Lego robot pulling out the thin cards one by one and handling them. This is difficult even for inexperienced human card players. In addition – everyone who has ever built a house of cards knows this – this sensitive structure threatens to collapse at the slightest shock.
Project costs developers 200 hours
Accordingly, Sacek claims to have spent around 200 hours designing and assembling the robot – including a few prototypes. Overall, the project took almost half a year, as the developer could only work on it in the evening and on weekends. The result is a machine that you just like to watch when it is in calmly assemble the house of cards – perfect for slowing down after a stressful day.
If you want to recreate the house of cards building robot, you have to do the design and development work yourself. Sacek emphasizes in the description of the YouTube video that there will be no instructions. He is happy that he has finished the robot and in any case is not planning a new version of a robot that can assemble a house of cards.
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