TOOLS

Gearing Ratio Calculator

Check out the Beta version my Lego Technic Gearing Ratio Calculator Tool:

This tool allows you to upload your Lego Technic project .ldr file and analyse the gearing ratios between any two connected gears or axles. Currently supports most gears, axles, worm gears, some differentials, cv joints and universal joints. See the video tutorial on how to use it. It is a work in progress and I would love to hear your feedback on it. Click here to try it out.

Note: As of 25 Septemeber 2021 the tool supports CV joints, linear speed via the radius of the component and improves on the frame rate for higher numbers of parts in a model).

Technic Elbow Art

This is a tool to create "Lego Technic Elbow Art" - a series of intertwined elbow pieces as a single sequence. Choose your dimensions and search parameters and search for new dense solutions and set a record! 

Download your Elbow Art as an .ldr file and build it yourself. Click here to try it out!

Lego Technic Multi Function Gearbox with Build Instructions

21 Mar 2021

This lego technic multi function gearbox implements two separate functions using just a single motor. It implements the two functions by exploiting the direction of rotation of the motor and implementing one function for the forward direction and a function selector in the reverse direction. The reverse selector can be used to select between between driving one of the two outputs in either the forward or reverse direction. This means you can build a lego technic remote controlled car or device that has two functions that can be remotely controlled with just 1 motor and just 1 channel of your remote transmitter and receiver combination.

More to explore

Lego Technic Dual Function Gearbox

3 Mar 2021

 

This gearbox solves the problem of needing three lego technic motors to remotely control a car with 3 functions namely driving, steering and gear changing capability. The lego gearbox implements two functions at once by exploiting the direction of rotation of the driving motor and ...read more

Lego Ferrari 488 GTE Manual 8 Speed Gearbox

29 Jan 2021

This video shows the design and construction of an 8 speed manual gearbox inspired by the Lego Technic Ferrari 488 GTE model that has come out in 2021. The lego technic set is called set #42125 Ferrari 488 GTE "AF Corse #51".

The gearbox gearing ratios closely approximate the ge...read more

Lego Technic Beyblade Battle Launcher

19 Aug 2022

This video presents a Lego Technic version of the spinning top battle game "Beyblade". A Lego Technic launcher for spinning tops made out of Lego is demonstrated and a number of battles are fought between various top designs. The launcher uses a high speed buwizz buggy motor to drive th...read more

Lego Technic RC 3 SPEED CAR - change gears, drive and steer using remote control

19 Jan 2021

An improved version of a lego technic RC 3 speed gearbox is implemented into a remote control lego car. This video shows three main improvements over the previous gearbox design. The first is an improvement is to replace the 90 degree bugatti stepper  with a PF servo motor reducing the gearb...read more

Lego Technic 2 Speed Automatic Gearbox with Booster Motor

23 Dec 2020

A lego technic 2 speed automatic gearbox is presented. The point of difference of this automatic 2 speed gearbox is a secondary booster motor is activated once the torque detector senses a large enough torque on the output of the automatic gearbox.

The second motor is turned on by a pole ...read more

Lego Technic 8 speed gearbox using just two levers!? Impossible?

4 Sep 2020

Here I present a lego technic 8 speed gearbox that does the seemingly impossible - creating eight speeds using just two levers. Normally two levers are used to create a lego 4 speed lego gearbox - however this design allows for 1 of 8 different speeds to be selected.

Each lever drives a s...read more

LEGO Technic MOC: 1023 SPEED CAR

16 Jul 2020

A 1,023 speed gearbox has been built into a Lego Technic remote controlled car chassis. The car can be steered and driven via remote control using two channels. The gears can be manually changed using ten selectors that drive ten differentials. This allows for one of 1023 different speeds to be s...read more

Lego 4 Speed Rotary Gearbox with build instructions

16 Jun 2020

This strong and versatile four speed sequential lego gearbox uses the new "Change over rotary catch" (from the bugatti chiron, 42083) component to smoothly select from 1 of four speeds using a single lever. The gearbox implements 1st, 2nd, 3rd and reverse speeds. The rotary catch is kep...read more

Lego Technic MOC 256 Speed Gearbox

18 Apr 2020

 

Here I present a 256 speed gearbox controlled by 8 switches. This design is based on a 2 differential N to P gear ratio design presented in one of my other videos. The gearbox allows 256 different gearing ratios to be selected including 1:44, 1:34, 1:33, 1:32, 1:28, 1:27, 1:24, 1:2...read more

Lego Technic 7 Segment LED Panel - Hexadecimal Counter

7 Oct 2022

This video shows a Lego Technic 7 segment LED panel that can count upwards or downwards using a track driven program via tow ball pins. The LED display can be programmed to show digits or one of 17 different letters to make a sequential display to animate small text messages.

The panel is...read more