Ore Processor - Part TWO

 

The basic layout of the Ore processor is this:

1. The stones come down from the cliff side onto a conveyor belt on the back of the module.  This conveyor belt runs right to left.
2. Goes through the crushing facility.
3. Then out of sight, the stones are processed underneath into small energy packets.
4. These energy packets then show up on another conveyor belt at the front of the module, that also runs right to left.
5. At this point they would be removed and ferried over to the space port for shipment.

 The conveyor in the back is a complete conveyor part, part number 92715c01 as shown here.

This provided the best choice for he stone movement and here is a video of what I was trying to do.

 

 

Here is the initial placement of the controller.

 

This shows the motor placement and the second conveyor.   The conveyor is built using the Technic link tread, part number 3873.  The back conveyor is using a standard M motor with a worm gear box to convert the direction 90 degrees to the large gear.  Then a chain will drive a small gear and then the conveyor.  As the video shows it runs at about the right speed. The front conveyor is using one of the small motors I found and then gear reduction section to slow it down.  I had to use the small tread links because there was just no room for the larger ones.  It all fits, but there is not much room left over.

 

 

 

 

Ore Processor - Part ONE

This has been in progress for a very long time.  For almost two years all that existed was an empty module base and the small crane on the cliff lowering in things.  Now there is something there.  Not sure this is the final version, but here is what got built.

 

This is the crushing facility.  The first conveyor belt takes the stones from above and moves them to this facility.  For now there is a red LED on the front that shows when the conveyor is about to start.  On the roof is an RBGW LED.  For none working, the light is white.  When the crushing facility is working the, light is red and blue, with a random PWM pulse applied independently to those two LEDs.

The red LED on the front is shown above.  There is a headlight brick on the side.  I used a small SMT style LED with the wires attached.  I bend the wires very close to the LED, to form a right angle.  Then I stuffed cotton into the hole to hold the LED in place.  It takes a lot more cotton than you would think.  The goal is to hold the LED and the wire in place, so stuff away.  Then a transparent red tile goes on the front.

You can see a fair amount of the inside of this small building and there is nothing.  What needs to happen is some kind of crushing mechanism will need to be built.  The problem here will be I have no more motor control channels.  so not sure how that will work yet.

 

 

 

 

 

Birck Days 2025 Lights

Here is Space Outpost SL ONE at night.

 

Brick Days 2025 - Omaha

 

  

Brick Days was another great time.  We thoroughly enjoyed it.  Here is a picture montage of the four days.

I thought this was quite interesting.  Using a net to capture the pieces and then make a quilt like structure.

This was the overall winner of the show.

This matrix vehicle was quite good.

Someone else who did a remake of the galaxy explorer.  You can see the original just in front of it. This similar to the idea that I had, except mine needed to fit on a landing pad base plate.

I am still attracted to this idea of micro architecture.  Just have not found a way to include it in the display.

Ship in a bottle?

This is taking the mosaic to whole new level.  The 3-D style is very good.  This particular one is a excellent combination of the mosaic and the new botanical line of Lego.

OK these two pictures might be pushing it a little.  But I had to laugh.

Me giving a presentation on Lighting Your Lego.

I thought this display should have won the Lights contest.  Very innovative display of both Duplo and Lego bricks that will fluoresce.  

This how we started out from Western Nevada on April Fools Day.  The week before it had been in the 70's. We finally caught up with the storm in Wyoming, where we had to take 2 hour detour because Interstate 80 west of Laramie was closed.  But we were able to see Casper WY, Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff.

 

 

 

 

Main Entrance Rebuild - DONE

Well for now it is done.  Here are the door videos.

 

Main Entrance Rebuild - Part EIGHT

 

As explained earlier, I have changed the wiring implementation.  In the orginial build of the Main Entrance, the wiring all came up the back in a conduit like structure, as shown here.

But that was problematic and I could never keep it looking straight.  So I came up through the towers in the front as shown here.

There are two levels for the LEDs.  The first illuminates the area on either side next to the hanger bays.  This includes the area around the internal power generators and the hanger observation area.  The second level is the conference room and the briefing room. The briefing room also powers the upper observation deck.

This shows the wire routing for the first level.  I used five tan 1 x 2 modified plates with pin hole to route and conceal the wire in an area where it could be seen.  Placing these next to each other creates a conduit structure for the wire.  This runs on both sides very near the spheres for the internal power generator, as you can also see in the above picture.

This shows the three LEDs that are used on each side.  Two illuminate the internal area for the internal power generator and the single LED will illuminate the observation area.

 

This shows the lighting arrangement for the conference room.  The interconnect is complete, there is just no power connection.

This shows the power connection.  You note that the wire is passing through two 1 x 1 Technic bricks as guides.  the Light Bluish Gray 1 x 2 modified plates with pin holes serve as guides for the wire also.

These two pictures show the power wire coming from the front tower where a 1 x 1 Technic brick is guiding the wire.  It then goes through a 1 x 2 modified plate with pin hole and finally through another 1 x 1 Technic brick.  These bricks with holes in them, keep the wire snug up against the wall and the ceiling.  You can probably see them if you look really hard, but it will take some body contortion in the normal display setup.

On the other side of the main entrance, the first level is identical.  The second level where the briefing room is slightly different.  Since this side had to power the observation deck also, routing is a little different.  The main power wire goes to a small 1 x 2 LED PCB that is used to distribute power.  One goes back to the LEDs for the briefing room.  And one uses the standard 2 pin connector to power the observation deck.  See the red arrow in the picture above.  These LEDs will eventually be the RBGW type, so that I can switch the briefing room from RED to WHITE.

The power for the observation deck passes through the wall using three 1 x 1 round plates.  Then it enters a conduit structure composed of 1 x 2 modified plates with pi hole (on the top).  Then it passes into the observation deck through a hole in the Technic beam that is supporting the roof and tower structure.

After that the wiring remains the same.  The observation deck is illuminated in BLUE, because I think it adds some contrast to everything else.  The small connector for the tower is the same.