Lego RC Car with Gearbox & Clutch 

I still have a servo made by Lego that is probably the older model of the one in the video. It probably still work although I haven’t used it in a while. Would it be worth mailing it to you if you can’t find them for sale?

@@gracengeier1149 That's a very nice offer, but I can find them and I would feel bad taking away yours from your collection:)

probably its direct drive. adding a differential might fix that torque steer.

Needs a neutral play adjustable rack I suppose. Baby steps.

What would happen if it were left in fourth gear and the clutch was engaged, at low speed, would it have a "stall" effect? Or are the motors strong enough to maintain movement?

Steve and george, where are they?

Is that you car pal

No way it carpal!!!!!!!!!

@@ahyaan2552 d e a d . They’ve died 100 times already. 😂

Did not expect to find car pal here

Right? I was in my hometown a week ago and opened my old Lego boxes, where I found my last project, which consisted of a front suspension, a gearbox and the back suspension, which all where about 50% bigger than this. It would have worked even way worse, cause I wanted to use 2 stone age motors and a single more recent one, so not even RC...

How in the world did I get 800 likes? 😳

The official Lego Lamborghini Sian has a paddle shifting gearbox with drive neutral and reverse

And stylish as hell

Pls submit this to ideas

Yes comfortable and “safe” indeed

And it looks great too!

This would be an instant hit as a Lego product. But they are not good enough to come up with something as good and sophisticated as this.

@@christocan4710 even worse, they just busy try to sell a damn expensive Black Panther Head. Not even life size!

@@christocan4710 I'm usually not the one to jump on the Lego hate bandwagon, but in this case something like this is exactly what Lego technique is about. At one point you'd think the children would know how the pistons of an engine translate a push pull motion into a rotational motion. Then you make something new right?

Wait till you see the air powered truck

I know right? I looked at the set up originally and was like, "oh, what scale is this build in?" Then he proceeds to stuff everything together in *less* motors than before 0.0 Smartest move adding the clutch and gearbox together though.

Thanks for your support and

@@ikillwithyourtruthholdagai2000 even if my wallets will cry, i will get my hands on this masterpiece

It uses a lot of non-official parts from buwizz, control unit, and it also uses many tricky “illegal” part connections. So this, sadly, won’t be a set. Also, Lego would not allow to release a clutch, which can be easily burned and wear down.

If LEgo would stock this it will likely cost 2k or more. And then you get the shitty control+ app.

@@NineSun001 Don't forget LEGO letting a unicorn puke into the interior, giving you bricks in all colors of the rainbow.

@@LosashExote what are the illegal connections and why?

Honestly, the educational value in these videos is very impressive, especially the "deep dive" into the gearbox at the beginning and the clutch. This video (and many of the others) would be a great addition to many lectures.

@@Magrior This would be practical in class building for all types of students of all ages!

I'm a student majoring electronics engeneering in korea university; and this video is so impressive :O

@@Magrior I was thinking that exact thing. I like cars, but I’m not that knowledgeable on how they work- but as he went through the gearbox one thing I thought was awesome was how he showed it shifting. I was like - “Oh shit, so that’s the reason the sounds the car makes pause when you shift.”

@@neurotic3015 same. I like cars and partially understand how they function, but one thing I could never understand was how gearboxes work. While I still don't fully understand, this video has been the greatest explanation I've seen.

That’s kinda scary, like what if their cheap and flimsy designs break while I’m driving

@@radium4194 buy a Nokia. Those things never break. Sad thing is, they don't make great cars.

@@cadenhood they do make great reliable cars, they’re called 90s-early 2000s Toyota pickup trucks.

@@radium4194 unfortunately exactly that happens on a much larger scale than you could ever imagine, one of the reasons why i left the automotive industrie a while back and now only buy jap made toyotas or lexus, nothing else

@@Driftuner yup, japanese integrity to making sure their cars are durable is admirable, although even they are starting to change in order to keep up with the market. that's why i always stick with used japanese cars that are well known for reliability.

Legit, this needs to be made into a Technic set.

@@racer927 it burns the clutch over time so lego won't allow it

​@@racer927 lego wouldn't allow this for a couple reasons: 1) it probably appeals to a much older audience than their usual range, since most preteens and kids that buy lego technic usually just want cool looking cars and care less about the engineering 2) the parts for this car would be super expensive, and would be a huge risk to start mass producing kits for. it would also have to have a ridiculous price, and most parents would rather buy the cheaper regular lego technic cars (especially since most parents buying toys for their kids probably don't care much for the engineering since, after all, "they're just legos." 3) and this is probably the most important reason: the servo and especially clutch will burn over time, and legos are meant to be pieces that last forever and can take abuse. a build like this can easily be mishandled (ex: changing gears without engaging clutch, holding the wheels from moving and burning the clutch, etc.) and it would be hard to prove that it was the customer's fault. something like this could ruin the company's reputation since a kid mishandling it without realizing it might be mad that their car stopped working a week after buying it for "seemingly no reason." that being said, i would absolutely buy a third party kit from brick technologies or any other company that sells something like this so i can better understand it and appreciate ti fully. same can be said for the compressed air engines video.

@@fruitygranulizer540 Fair enough.

@@fruitygranulizer540 I am 13 years old and would love to make this build. When I was 12 I build the Apollo rocket and recently made the typewriter. This person has a wide verity of audience.

no, Lego just want to sell cheap sets expensive. He should work with Cada

@@hansrduch4793 Totally agree, CADA bricks hire MOC designers like this and pay them for their hard work!

Lego Technic, upgraded version

@@hansrduch4793 tipical kapitalists (Lego)

@@hansrduch4793 exactly. they make a few specialty parts so that their technic sets can't be made with readily available lego parts, and then overprice the shit out of their sets. this is what happens when a company has a monopoly on a niche product.

No idea in hours. But it took a while unitl it worked. This car is the 3rd or 4th version. Took me about 3 weeks:)

@@BrickTechnology 😲

@@BrickTechnology Exactly 3 weeks would be.. 7×3=21 24×20=480 480+24=504 hours

@@JDRed117 And even that would be extremely impressive for such a complex, yet compact and beautiful build… to think it took even less than that, this man is a true genius

@@JDRed117 I'm sure he didn't spend the whole of 24hours each day working on it 😂. More likely 3-5 hours a day on average around other things I'm sure he has going on. Would be closer to 21*5 which is 105 hours, if that👍

I'm a Lego collector, I Love anything RC and gaming as well Yes, this is a ingenious masterpiece that has combined my 3 favorite things together..But, how did you get a Playstation controller to control it all???

@@allenduncan4813 BuWizz is a third-party system that is compatible with lego that enables different controller options, like the one that you saw in the video.

@@traderjohann3587 Definitely looking into this, Thank you. I have some performance rc vehicles, Traxxas, hpi, arrma ect. There all pretty fast and I've been Really wanting to use my PS4 controllers to race them. Buwizz. Thank you very much. Btw, most servos, generic or otherwise, can be opened up either from the top or bottom, revealing the gears. If you can pull the very top gear without moving anything else and rotate it left or right by one tooth at a time, eventually your steering will be perfect. A trick I learned when I couldn't adjust the trim on a servo I had.

Yea but lego won't ever introduce this as a set because they first need the car to have every single detail including interior and then funktionality and this will not work :( (ps: sorry for my terrible english)

@@callmetommy1899 true… but hey they have pulled crazier stuff off before!

lego wouldn't allow this for a couple reasons: 1) it probably appeals to a much older audience than their usual range, since most preteens and kids that buy lego technic usually just want cool looking cars and care less about the engineering 2) the parts for this car would be super expensive, and would be a huge risk to start mass producing kits for. it would also have to have a ridiculous price, and most parents would rather buy the cheaper regular lego technic cars (especially since most parents buying toys for their kids probably don't care much for the engineering since, after all, "they're just legos." 3) and this is probably the most important reason: the servo and especially clutch will burn over time, and legos are meant to be pieces that last forever and can take abuse. a build like this can easily be mishandled (ex: changing gears without engaging clutch, holding the wheels from moving and burning the clutch, etc.) and it would be hard to prove that it was the customer's fault. something like this could ruin the company's reputation since a kid mishandling it without realizing it might be mad that their car stopped working a week after buying it for "seemingly no reason." that being said, i would absolutely buy a third party kit from brick technologies or any other company that sells something like this so i can better understand it and appreciate ti fully. same can be said for the compressed air engines video.

his technical knowledge is standard for almost any mechanical engineer out there, even undergrad college students. however, his ability to apply that knowledge in such an informative and fun way, and being able to put it together in legos, and even make the final product look nicer than most lego technic cars ALL by himself is really impressive.

@@fruitygranulizer540 I agree

Thanks for your support

not only does it make it easy to understand, but it neatly shows the engineering process. starting with the simplest solution available, and slowly improvising to allow for better functionality. i just wish brick technology would also show some of his vailed attempts, since i think it is an even better part of the engineering porocess/

**winks**

@@n2m3 yeah

i posted this in a different comment but: lego wouldn't allow this for a couple reasons: 1) it probably appeals to a much older audience than their usual range, since most preteens and kids that buy lego technic usually just want cool looking cars and care less about the engineering 2) the parts for this car would be super expensive, and would be a huge risk to start mass producing kits for. it would also have to have a ridiculous price, and most parents would rather buy the cheaper regular lego technic cars (especially since most parents buying toys for their kids probably don't care much for the engineering since, after all, "they're just legos." 3) and this is probably the most important reason: the servo and especially clutch will burn over time, and legos are meant to be pieces that last forever and can take abuse. a build like this can easily be mishandled (ex: changing gears without engaging clutch, holding the wheels from moving and burning the clutch, etc.) and it would be hard to prove that it was the customer's fault. something like this could ruin the company's reputation since a kid mishandling it without realizing it might be mad that their car stopped working a week after buying it for "seemingly no reason." that being said, i would absolutely buy a third party kit from brick technologies or any other company that sells something like this so i can better understand it and appreciate ti fully. same can be said for the compressed air engines video.

​@@fruitygranulizer540 See, pure fan of back to the futur trilogy are ready to buy a pair of Air Mag from Back to the futur II $16000 the shoes. Anything is possible when a marketing campaign is good!!!!!

@@nicolasmartin1572 doing something like that would be a terrible look/rep for a company like lego

@@fruitygranulizer540 my point of view is also that there is Always nostalgy in such product. I personnaly invested in 2 Nintendo for super Mario Bros and street fighter II while i dont play to it but i have them. I used to Practice radio controlled car, on-road, nitro engine, very extensive, as a teenager, and now as an adult, i spend much more in it now to have all the equipment, because i Can afford it. As you Can see, a real fan built this RC car already. He is an adult, he has passion for it and mechanic and GOT knowledge, probably is he in mechanical engineering. Focusing on adults, communicating on fan network, marketing it as a product for advised people, i think it may work.

@anonymous hes explained that these are absurdly expensive to make

there are lego torque converters, they work via diffs

CVT maybe?

@@sevvvich8118 I would love to see a lego youtuber make a better cvt than Nissan

@@Edward-pw6zz link to a video?

@@JaceN3D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ESI_Koqz2ww.html search "torque vectoring" or "torque splitter"

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Same thought I'd be someone building amazing stuff. Studied mechanical engineering. Now I'm in operations doing nothing with my life

@@ifigetbannedagainyoutubeis2018 Hey there! I'm sorry to hear that. May I ask how your experience was with mechanical engineering in college/university? I am a aspiring engineer and any info and tips will help!

@@kevinpeng8295 college was great. Had good grades , did a couple of internships with startups. During my last year I decided i wanted to get paid a lot of money so started applying to oil and gas companies. Got into one, in operations now. It's just boring. Pays well but that's it

Wow, thanks!