Monthly Archives: August 2010

LEGO Ice Cream Maker

15 August 2010

With a trip to the toy store and an hour of snapping and unsnapping LEGOs, I came up with a little gearbox connecting a motor to a stirring rod. The gears give this light-weight motor the mechanical advantage that it needs to churn thickening ice cream. For each turn of the rod, the motor spins [...]

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