-last edited on May 26, 2017 20:13:36 GMT by themindgarage
Post by themindgarage on May 26, 2017 20:13:17 GMT
No, this is nothing to do with hacking the LEGO Life app . This is the place where you solve-real-life problems using LEGO!
For example, there's a heatwave where I live. I could go to the attic and get the fans down but it would be a lot of work. So a temporary solution is called for:
LEGO fan time! Runs on a Power Functions XL motor, blades spin at around 3000 rpm. Win!
No, this is nothing to do with hacking the LEGO Life app . This is the place where you solve-real-life problems using LEGO!
For example, there's a heatwave where I live. I could go to the attic and get the fans down but it would be a lot of work. So a temporary solution is called for:
LEGO fan time! Runs on a Power Functions XL motor, blades spin at around 3000 rpm. Win!
Share your own life hacks here!
I know right? It's, like, 23 degrees man! I wonder if I will pass out when I'm at the camp.
Life hack No. 1: Ever tired of picking up that bomb debris of lego? Yup, we've all been there. I invented a machine to pick it up for me and scrape it into a plastic bag for me to dump somewhere else. I'd post a picture but its... now my bomb debris...
-last edited on May 27, 2017 8:00:00 GMT by Gnuehchcaz
Post by Gnuehchcaz on May 27, 2017 7:59:41 GMT
There's the classic thief alarm system. Just lay your bricks all over the floor. Any thief who tries to enter your room will scream in agony once they step on a LEGO brick. Just make sure to clean up when you're done so that you don't accidentally step on them yourself.
I have a few other life hacks, but it's kinda the other way round of using other objects to improve the quality of the LEGO hobby:
Put a ribbon inside of a device (such as a LEGO battery box, NXT, EV3, or other LEGO electronic device) before putting in the batteries. Now if you want to take the batteries out, it's easy by gently pulling on the ribbon away from the device. No more stressed fingernails trying to pry out the batteries, which can be quite tight inside the device.
Clean your LEGO bricks by using a flour sieve to hold your LEGO bricks in place while you wash them with soap and water. As far as I know, there isn't a LEGO piece small enough to fall through the tiny holes of a flour sieve but still let the cleaning liquid through.
Place a thin sock over a vacuum cleaner and hold it in place with some tape or tight rubber bands. Now just vacuum underneath the couch to collect any loose LEGO pieces that have accidentally fallen under. The sock filters the LEGO pieces from getting into the vacuum cleaner but still lets the suction through.
There's the classic thief alarm system. Just lay your bricks all over the floor. Any thief who tries to enter your room will scream in agony once they step on a LEGO brick. Just make sure to clean up when you're done so that you don't accidentally step on them yourself.
I have a few other life hacks, but it's kinda the other way round of using other objects to improve the quality of the LEGO hobby:
Put a ribbon inside of a device (such as a LEGO battery box, NXT, EV3, or other LEGO electronic device) before putting in the batteries. Now if you want to take the batteries out, it's easy by gently pulling on the ribbon away from the device. No more stressed fingernails trying to pry out the batteries, which can be quite tight inside the device.
Clean your LEGO bricks by using a flour sieve to hold your LEGO bricks in place while you wash them with soap and water. As far as I know, there isn't a LEGO piece small enough to fall through the tiny holes of a flour sieve but still let the cleaning liquid through.
Place a thin sock over a vacuum cleaner and hold it in place with some tape or tight rubber bands. Now just vacuum underneath the couch to collect any loose LEGO pieces that have accidentally fallen under. The sock filters the LEGO pieces from getting into the vacuum cleaner but still lets the suction through.
Oh, I forgot to say, use at your own discretion.
Nice ideas! I've never had trouble opening battery boxes, but I often carry a long axle when building TECHNIC to help push stubborn pins and axles out. Although sometimes I just use my mouth .
If you like to play with your LEGO bricks on the floor, play with them on top of a spread out bed sheet, large towel, or some kind of large cloth. Clean up is simple my grabbing the corners of the cloth and bringing them together to form a bag containing all the LEGO. Play time is easy again just by unfolding the cloth back out, and playing again. It'll also protect you and your bricks from the floor, which could be dirty. I think LEGO used to sell something like this back in the 80s.
If you like a LEGO set with stickers on them but have a hard time applying them, here's a way for more control. First apply the edge or corner of your sticker to a thin edge, such as a pocket knife (ask parents permission first), or the thin edge of a newer style LEGO brick separator (safer for kids). Then hold your pocketknife or brick separator with the sticker and apply the sticker on your LEGO model or brick, carefully peeling away your pocketknife or brick separator when the majority of the sticker is in place . By doing it this way, you have more control over where that sticker goes since you have more fingers and your whole hand holding it. It's the same way that lots of Rubik's cube enthusiasts sticker their puzzles.
There's the classic thief alarm system. Just lay your bricks all over the floor. Any thief who tries to enter your room will scream in agony once they step on a LEGO brick. Just make sure to clean up when you're done so that you don't accidentally step on them yourself.
I have a few other life hacks, but it's kinda the other way round of using other objects to improve the quality of the LEGO hobby:
Put a ribbon inside of a device (such as a LEGO battery box, NXT, EV3, or other LEGO electronic device) before putting in the batteries. Now if you want to take the batteries out, it's easy by gently pulling on the ribbon away from the device. No more stressed fingernails trying to pry out the batteries, which can be quite tight inside the device.
Clean your LEGO bricks by using a flour sieve to hold your LEGO bricks in place while you wash them with soap and water. As far as I know, there isn't a LEGO piece small enough to fall through the tiny holes of a flour sieve but still let the cleaning liquid through.
Place a thin sock over a vacuum cleaner and hold it in place with some tape or tight rubber bands. Now just vacuum underneath the couch to collect any loose LEGO pieces that have accidentally fallen under. The sock filters the LEGO pieces from getting into the vacuum cleaner but still lets the suction through.
Oh, I forgot to say, use at your own discretion.
Nice ideas! I've never had trouble opening battery boxes, but I often carry a long axle when building TECHNIC to help push stubborn pins and axles out. Although sometimes I just use my mouth .
Thanks.
I know for my Technic Power Functions battery box, there's this one battery that is in a tight space surrounded on 75% of its sides, and I always have trouble getting that battery out.
I used to use my teeth to pull pieces apart when I was young, but after having braces on two separate occasions, I'll just stick to the brick separator.
Nice ideas! I've never had trouble opening battery boxes, but I often carry a long axle when building TECHNIC to help push stubborn pins and axles out. Although sometimes I just use my mouth .
Thanks.
I know for my Technic Power Functions battery box, there's this one battery that is in a tight space surrounded on 75% of its sides, and I always have trouble getting that battery out.
I used to use my teeth to pull pieces apart when I was young, but after having braces on two separate occasions, I'll just stick to the brick separator.
Oh yes, there's that one battery that's hard to get to. I forgot .
TWO times? I had them once and it was bad enough. I was told "18 months +/- 2", but it ended up stretchning to 23 months. I started to wonder if my clinic (in the UK it's free for under 16s) they get paid according to the number of patients currently in treatment.
I know for my Technic Power Functions battery box, there's this one battery that is in a tight space surrounded on 75% of its sides, and I always have trouble getting that battery out.
I used to use my teeth to pull pieces apart when I was young, but after having braces on two separate occasions, I'll just stick to the brick separator.
Oh yes, there's that one battery that's hard to get to. I forgot .
TWO times? I had them once and it was bad enough. I was told "18 months +/- 2", but it ended up stretchning to 23 months. I started to wonder if my clinic (in the UK it's free for under 16s) they get paid according to the number of patients currently in treatment.
Yeah, that one battery.
Yeah, twice. I had some bad habits growing up that really misaligned my teeth, and I fell back into those habits as I grew older. After the second time I was more aware and I learned to take good care of my teeth. Hmm, I don't live in the UK, but I guess that would make sense.
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