Lego Egg Timer - Powered By Eggs!
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Published 2023-06-18
See my latest experiments and behind-the-scenes footage!
Can we use eggs to time eggs? In this video, we use Lego to build a totally oversized machine to test this ridiculous concept.
This lego technic machine works sort of like a clock. An escapement mechanism only permits very slow rotation of the gears, creating a ‘tick-tock’ motion and sound. The sound itself is quite satisfying. Powering this mechanism is a belt that’s connected to a basket of eggs. This provides rotational energy via gravity as the eggs pull on the gears. If we set it up juuuust right, we can time the contraption to measure 6 minutes: egg-sactly what we need for a nice boiled egg. Unfortunately, for this machine, that means we need a lot of heigh. And now it takes up half my kitchen!
“But what if I want a hard-boiled egg??”, you say. “And what if I don’t want it to take up my entire kitchen?” Well I’ve got you covered. I also built a smaller version that can time up to 20 minutes on a single charge, allowing us to time anything up to 20 mins!
If you’d like to see more behind the scenes while I build these contraptions, and help me work on them, you can join my channel membership available under the video. I appreciate all the support everyone has given on this channel so far!
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All Comments (21)
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“If it ain’t broke, break it and make it your own” 😂
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While the first timer has a very inefficient escapement, I don't think I've ever seen a 2 tooth escape wheel before, so that's pretty impressive.
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This timer is egg-celent
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this is stupid in the best way possible. Well done. You earned a subscriber
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well you know what they say, you cant make an egg timer without breaking a few eggs.
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For Easter I made a Lego car to get an egg around a track
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Now make an egg generator so you can cook the egg with eggs
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This vid was crackingly awesome =3
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More weight on the pendulum would have slowed down the mechanism without need of all that hight!
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I love the content man. Keep it up and you’ll make it big for sure
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Well... I will try it my self with my eggs
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the fact that you used an egg timer to prop up a stopwatch on your phone lol
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I give a try will with my eggs 😄 Great vidieo👍
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Some sort of generator might be fun. Charge a phone with lego, maybe?
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lmfao thats sick
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now you're thinking with eggs
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Hmm. Weirdly useful if you eat soft boiled eggs for some reason. Personally I boil eggs for exactly 1 reason. Deviled eggs, and the hard setting on the second mechanism is still a little light for that. Plus the lack of audio indicators on the second mechanism is annoying. I wish to see this idea fulfilled as a third mechanism that flips over the signs onto piano keys or something.
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that a fun thing, the small one is definitely better but less fun, lol
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u didnt soak the eggs in cold water when done v.
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i love hard boiled eggs soft is kinda gross
