How far are you prepared to go to build a novelty seasonal ornament? Maybe a gingerbread house, or perhaps a bit of 3D printed glitter to hang on your Christmas tree. For [The Brick Wall], none of this was enough. Instead what was needed was a complete LEGO automated factory that builds a log cabin, from the unlikely raw material of cucumbers.
What has been created is the LEGO equivalent of a timber mill, with the various machines served by an overhead gantry crane. The cucumbers are trimmed to square, before being transferred to a saw which cuts out the notches for the interlocking corners. Another saw line chops the sections around door and windows to length, and finally the roof planks are cut in a vertical saw. The video below is reported as taking 83 days to complete from planning to filming, and 18 cucumbers to build the house. We’re not sure the cucumber will become a regular building material, but we salute the effort involved here.
Though this may be one of the biggest we’ve seen, we’ve featured many LEGO machines making things before.
If it took 83 days to build the cabin from 18 cucumbers, how did they keep them from spoiling?
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Just the same cucumbers from some big US fast food chain.
My guess is it took them 18 days to build and test the assembly rig and about 15 minutes to build the actual cucumber house.
Exactly what I was going to say
What ingenuity!
What humor!
What a lot of LEGO!
Very cute and cukes are a good material for LEGO to manage. Soft wood like balsa might be possible.
I don’t know whether to be fascinated by the machinery, disgusted by the choice of “building material,” or aggravated by the use of something generally regarded as food as the building material.
Well, termites consider wood food, an we build houses from that. ;-)
If you want to be accurate, termites don’t eat wood. They use it to farm fungus.
It’s probaby not widely known in the west but common knowledge in countries that were formerly parts of USSR like Russia, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine or Czechoslovakia: juice from fermented cucumbers is the perfect cure for hangover while fermented cucumbers themselves are great for consumption when you drink again.
Otherwise known as pickles?
Otherwise Known As getting pickled!
B^)
That too….
At least in Poland we differ pickles (with added vinegar) from souring (with added salt that promotes development of Lactobacillus).
nsrogag was referring to the latter, as drinking vinegar water does not do so much in contrast to sourin water full of good bacteria and microelemnts. However exact relief mechanism is not known to me
Should work as well with balsa wood with some slowed down feed rates.
With balsa wood they could even go one step further. They could set up a station that cuts the logs out of balsa before assembly.
Clicked on this expecting it to be a LEGO cucumber growing environment. This is way more impressive.
but could you build lego that can build lego?
or lego that can build lego to build lego?
>but could you build lego that can build lego?
Probably not … but you can use Fishertechnik to print Lego ;-)
https://www.fischertechnik.de/de-de/3d-drucker