Automatic lego air Compressor

[minikristianX]

voy a viajar al pasado y les daré lego a todos los homo sapiens cavernicolas, aver que pasa hoy xD

[lolziloveminecraft]

try hooking that up to a car! :D

[LittleJohnEnterprise]

Where to buy ?

[lorirocks777]

@LittleJohnEnterprise I made it myself... You can buy the parts from a site called bricklink

[SuperControlRoom]

nice, can u make a vacuum pump?

[lorirocks777]

@SuperControlRoom unfortunately not ...

[SuperControlRoom]

@lorirocks777 ahhh thats okey, it would be hard to make anyway

[ClAyMoReAcR]

can it blow up ballons? if so ill buy it off u?

[Presentfactory]

@ClAyMoReAcR

Lol....

[MegaLegomaniac123]

@ClAyMoReAcR how much would you buy it for

[chengda85]

how does this work

[lorirocks777]

@chengda85 It's in the description

[wesKokigen]

Does lego still sell those air pistons?

[lorirocks777]

@wesKokigen I got mine on ebay

[megamindstorm101]

@wesKokigen look at the lego education site they sell a TON of different pneumatics.

[pimonspie]

are nxt sensors compatable with nxt

[Litt13DJ]

@pimonspie i wonder

[Paskarasta]

Whats that thing with the screen?

[lorirocks777]

@Paskarasta That's called an RCX... a programmable output controller and input receiver.

[TheCatMilton]

how mutch psi can it generate

[ericdravin21]

once he gets it all ballanced and running without problems ... i have found that a rig like that works great for running small airbrushes for painting my model cars lol NICE WORK!!!!

[mrspy1100]

@kartchamp95 Can you give the address? i cant find it on google!

[ErnieHam]

what's the background song?! XD

[OBOSANify]

wow..!! it can be useful for my air brush painting hobby !! such a cool creation..!

by the way can u decrease the noise level ? ( ^ ^)"

[dondongo666]

it's cool, but I can see a potential problem in the hose breaking (due to continual mechanical stress)

[lorirocks777]

@dondongo666 You'd think so... but they're very flexible and durable. The old hoses would corrode and break, but I've had the new ones for 10 years and they're still fine... There isn't that much stress on them...

[dondongo666]

@lorirocks777 wow. Do you use it often? Either way, that's still good.

[erikals2]

How much psi will the air tank handle before the air tank goes boom?

[lorirocks777]

@erikals2 Good question... I don't know because lego motors are not strong enough to produce enough pressure to explode the tank... you'd probably need to try that with an industrial compressor...

[tucsonpersonified]

Marge your son has made an IED call the police!

[mydad95]

how much $?

[PaperEngine]

i wna t a air tank with a nitro oxide sticker ''-__-

[wiipspdscoder]

thats so a air motor LOL

[Phygar1]

Lol the whole RCX is a waste for that. You could just wire power cells, a pushbutton, and the motor in series for the same effect.

[mikeymoonster]

Can i use this to power an lpe? Prefrebly an lpe power v8 with gearbox etc

[noodliepoodlie]

@mikeymoonster

Yes, you probably could.(preferably having the LPE running it instead of an electric motor)

[Vosyaa]

Very nice!

[ramgaard20]

Very nice,

[amj441]

Where do you get the air tanks, pumps, and hoses?

[lorirocks777]

At a website called bricklink

[demonbreed131]

wt do i look for when im in bricklink

[lorirocks777]

@demonbreed131

What I do is go to Peeron dot com and search for a set that I know has a part I'm looking for. For example... If I'm looking for a motor like the one in this video, I know that that's in set number 8421... so I search it on peeron which gives you a list of parts with their numbers. Then search the part number you need on bricklink... and it will give you a list of new and used parts with prices that people want for them... you can find some stuff quite cheap...

[farcorfe337]

@amj441 ebay

[lorirocks777]

@amj441 I got them from various older lego sets.. The tank is from set 8459.

[MrLawlness]

Where do you get that kind of motor?

[lorirocks777]

There is a motor set that was sold between 2006 & 2008 as an add on to some technic models... and it also came with a lego technic crane (8421)

[MrLawlness]

Okay, cool. Do you think theres any chance of getting one seperate?

[videoGunZ]

wtf... buy a new chair xD

[skl1cent]

pretty cool bro!

[wdowa94]

How much PSI?

[Carbon1700]

Hey, can'r you add a nozzle so you can use the compressed air to?

5/5 anyways, great work!

[spiritusmentis]

I was thinking about getting some mini pumps myself (check out my compressor, it uses two big yellow pumps)... seems like I could probably pump more with smaller pumps, since there's less resistance. I mean, 'pump more in a shorter amount of time'. You should upgrade to NXT, it's pretty nuts :P

[chrismofer]

cool. keeps from having too much/not enouf air in the tanks.

[polar600prox2]

how do you get the air tanks

[H264codec]

crap

[benatbenland]

This guy is too retarded to understand what it is, nice work, its clever.

[crazyboy91502]

were do u get the parts

[Tipsy777Star]

a hovercraft would be nice ^^

[looloo34521]

were do you get the parts for that from?

[eenproductions]

wats the name of the computer thingy?

[lorirocks777]

The RCX

[azerrlight]

so this only shuts the pump off when their is enouph pressure to push the rams?

what happends if u need to lift so,thing heavy.

the ram on the compressor will turn off rather than lifting the weight?

[Legoweapond]

your airtank is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Does it come from set 8439? or 8459??

[undoproductions]

nice! good job

[MostBever]

damn cool!

[guitarhero2677]

how did u pmp it automatically?

[tk10]

Where did you got that blue airtank?

[lorirocks777]

I already answered that... lol

[Legoweapond]

you can get one in the sub set 8250 and set: 8439 . You can buy these set on ebay. I dont think it existens in shop anymore :D

[Klaufmann]

you can build something like this without micro-computer. just change the touch sensor by the button of a battery pack. i havent testet it yet, but it should work. just it would start compressing when the button is pressed until the pressure is high enough. also you have to adjust it in that way that the button doesnt snap so it would compress until it blasts :D

[mavamaarten]

Where do you get the Blue pump thing ???

[lorirocks777]

I got it off ebay, but some older technic sets come with them, such as the Lego Technic set 8868. There is also a pneumatics pack for lego mindstorms that comes with one.

[HfG546]

dude, old models have air tanks, wonder why they dosent sell those anymore...

[lorirocks777]

Yeah I know, Lego has been going backwards a bit in that way. I love their models between 1996 and 1998, they're just neat. They didn't spare any expense on giving you a good fun set. Like, the old boxes had a plastic mold in them so you had seperate containers for all your parts, whereas the new ones are just filled with plastic bags of parts.

[lorirocks777]

I think they're trying to cut costs, so cool things like air tanks disappear.. I guess they wouldn't add much value to the selling point of a model except to a builder who appreciates full functionality.

[Mastado]

where'd u get the blue tank from?

[lorirocks777]

From the front end loader set 8459.

[markg729]

thats really cool, ingenious design, can you adjust it for different pressures?

[lorirocks777]

Thanks! The way I adjust it for a different pressures is in the programming. I just program it so that when the touch sensor is pressed the motor will switch off after a certain amount of time.

[lorirocks777]

Thank you!

To adjust it to stop at a higher pressure, I just program the motor to stay running a certain amount of seconds after the touch sensor is touched, depending on how much pressure I want.