20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine

[Jethro_uk]

popped up in my feed - thought it might amuse some.

[Andy Burns]

No Geneva mechanism?

[Brian Gaff]

I remember many years ago, a huge machine made from leggo, whose sole purpose was to drop a mint into a bottle of cola and then you got the inevitable spurt. It had rolling pennies and strange turntables and levers all started by a tiny marble at one end. Very strange mind thought it up quite obviously. Brian

[Chris Hogg]

One of the earliest linkages of that general type was James Watt's 'parallel motion', invented in 1784 for his pumping engines.

[John Rumm]

Nice demo, although it is a shame he could not link all of them together into some kind of mechanism where the output of each did something useful. A number just seemed to be waving a stick up and down but with the output from it no used for anything.