"Lego is a reputable company an we know they make products that will last a long time" > years of Brittle parts an colors > consistly has defects/missing pieces in sets (as of recent) > has an is destroying old molds an instructions with no effort on their part to archive/preserve that history. (¬⤙¬ ) yeah... I'm not too sure about reputable but they certainly are "A Company"
If i had to guess, the reason why they outperform original lego motors is because they might not have a voltage limiter, which is good for making power but unsafe for the motor and its components. The original Lego motor would win in longevity.
@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 It all comes down to how the motor is wound. I don’t know the math behind it, but DC motor speed at a given voltage is determined mainly by number of turns of wire around the armature. (Number of poles also plays a role.) These motors must have less turns than the original ones. Less turns means faster and stronger but also shorter lifespan as more heat is generated and the higher RPM will wear out the brushes/bearings/gears faster.
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VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: If the dealer misses a round, it is due to the base motor turning faster than the dealer can deal, causing the color sensor to miss the black dot. This is very easy to fix though. With the dealer.ev3 program open in the EV3 Lab software, scroll up to the top loop where I left a comment. For example, let's say you try to deal for 6 players and it skips a round. Once you click on the array settings, decrease the appropriate entry by 1 or 2 then close it and re-load the program onto the EV3 brick. I specify which entry corresponds to which player count in the comment.
So I might add one more thing. The thing that I talked about at 3:08 about each round of cards drifting away from the previous round can actually be seen happening at 1:07 during the 8 players 6 cards demonstration. The black dot is supposed to prevent this from happening, but it happens anyway due to the motor’s speed being slightly faster than the speed at which the cards can be dealt. This could have been fixed by decreasing the motor’s speed in the program, but I didn’t because the drifting wasn’t too bad. If you plan on building this project, I pinned a comment and added to the description of that video how to fix it if it happens to you.
4:12 ok mumbo jumbo by the way the instructions video is private, not unlisted or public very impressive performance. What's the maximum players for 7 cards and for 5 cards? Those are the most common numbers of cards per person for most card games.
I wonder who this is… Anyway the instructions video is currently uploading. Maximum players for 7 cards is 7 players because 7 x 7 = 49, which is less than 52. If the user tried to go and set it to 8 cards, it would automatically decrement it back down to 7. This same logic can be applied to 5 cards, maximum of 10 players.
A LEGO washing machine? That’s legendary lol. Please let me know here if you make a video about it, I would be very interested in what you came up with.
It appears I have missed a small but critical piece for this to work. At 1:10, you can see the dark gray piece right above the yellow piece. Depending on your light switch a 3/4 pin(LEGO part 32002) or a 1/2 pin(LEGO part 4274) will do the trick. Place it with the 3/4 or 1/2 part protruding downwards just like the other one is.
AA batteries are expensive, and EV3 is not a low-power platform. I thought I’d make it so the light switch can still be operable with the EV3 disabled all while still being attached to the light switch.
@@luigikoopa8771 Powered Up would have actually been very good for this! The problem with using powered up for this is that it’s not as widespread as EV3 and I originally planned this project to come with a tutorial. That would kinda screw lots of people who wanted to build this for themselves.
If your switch has some kind of screws I’m sure you could rig something up to attach. After that and considering you have an EV3, use good ol’ creativity to do make something to twist the knob!
Don't waste your time being a purist, LEGO is an educational toy, you'll learn more reaching outside the box especially with high power motors, as your vehicles will need to be better engineered to handle them. Then when your satisfied with all that LEGO can offer you move on to a home made go cart.
Well, Lego once was a reputable company that made great products, but now they'd be basically running themselves into the ground if it weren't for their reputation because they once made great stuff and only slowly change to not make their insane pricing and loss of quality too obvious. TLDR, Lego is shit but still thrives due to their reputation still being high, don't buy Lego, buy "knock-offs" (cause now, Lego objectively is the knock-off)
I actually completely agree with this. Lego switched to an “environmentally friendly” plastic a few years ago and it’s way more flimsy than the good ol fashion ABS they used to use. Lego has become more of a modern greedy corporation compared to how they were.
I am also a purist, but I make an exception for all things electrical. That is because TLG group has dropped the ball in a big way. Twenty years ago it became apparent that IR would become outdated by Bluetooth (1998); especially with the advent of smartphones (2007). Yet it took TLG until 2018 before bringing their Bluetooth products to market. Much later than Sbrick (2014) and Buwizz (2016). The benefits of Bluetooth over IR are so obvious that this is an inexcusable mistake. It is the point TLG lost me as a customer of their electronics. It should be mentioned that the slow adoption of Bluetooth is far from the only miss TLG has scored when it comes to its electronics products.
Well said. The only thing that IR has going for it though(and I personally like) is that it’s so dang simple. No connections needing to be established, cheap, and less things that could go wrong. Just push a button and things happen! However I do realize that Bluetooth is *much* more versatile, but the simplicity of IR still holds a place in my heart lol
I started using a lot of knock-off Lego -especially with tecnic and motors and pneumatics. First, they discontinued PF and , I think pneumatics,, so we have that. Then I don't care for the control plus. And the tecnic prices are getting too high. The quality isn't that bad, for the Chinese knock-offs. I don't feel bad about cutting the connectors off and controlling them with microcontrollers (IR, BT, or WiFi) because the price isn't that bad.
