- Welcome back to Brick by Brick.
I'm your host Adam Ward.
Today we got
a super special show.
And a first time for Brick by Brick.
And a first time for my whole life
because I have designed an app
for you.
It's a little bit different than some of your apps
it's more of an analog app.
But it is a change machine.
And, when I say change machine
I don't mean that it helps you turn this
into four quarters.
I mean, this machine
helps you create change
in your life.
Friends of Brick by Brick,
I present to you
for the first time ever,
the iCan.
♫ Oooooh iCan ♫
The iCan helps you bring a change
into your life.
So, what we do is you think of a change you want to make.
Maybe you want to wake up earlier,
or drink more water,
or you want to give high fives to strangers.
Whatever it is,
each day you're successful in your new practice
you turn the handle a little bit
and the iCan reveals the
special color of the day.
At the end of the week,
seven consecutive days
of your new practice,
the iCan rewards you.
With a teeny tiny
hundred dollar bill.
'Cause change can be hard.
But I think, with things like the iCan,
we can make change in our lives.
We can, you can, I can.
Do you want to build one?
Let's go!
I know, a lot of technic pieces.
But hang in there, it'll all make sense.
First up, are one by four,
and one by two technic pins.
They act as the skeleton to the mechanism.
A one by three technic axle
connector serves as the handle.
Technic washers
keep our technic pins in place.
And the eight tooth gear
allows our crank to move the arm.
Our one by two technic bricks
help our mechanism to go from the inside
to the outside.
The one by four gear rack
paired with the eight tooth gear
create the movement.
Our one by one wedge
keeps our arm from falling off.
A one by two panel ensures
our pins don't slip.
And finally, assorted tiles
act as our daily reminders
and smooth any bumps in our way.
To see a complete list of every single piece
in this build, check out the video description.
Ready to get building?
Let's do it.
Like all other builds, we start at the base.
So the iCan
is six across.
But it's 17 long.
I know, odd numbers, they're not that fun in Lego.
But, it's all good.
So we take two six by six plates.
A couple two by threes.
And a one by six.
And that's the base.
And then to hold all these things together
we've got
one by 10s.
And some one by sixes.
And then this little guy.
For one by 0s goes on one side
and a one by 10 goes on the other side.
And what's cool about using these nice long pieces
is look, they lock all of those pieces together.
(slide whistle) We'll put a one by six
on the back end.
And then we don't go all the way around.
We leave an opening
for our
daily color reminder
slash hundred dollar bill dropper
to come in and out.
Put down some tiles.
For those to slide across.
I'll put a one by eight
two of them, right in the center.
Leaving four here and four here.
And then use my two by fours
to go right on top.
The next step is to put bricks
all the way around the edge
of our iCan
except the one opening
where our wonderful
daily reminder is gonna slide in and out.
So if you were thinking about a change you could do
something to keep in mind
is sometimes even a small change
can be challenging.
So instead of trying to bring like five different
changes in all at once, I want to eat healthier
and have less sugar, and do more exercise,
and wear more hats.
It might be hard to do all of those changes simultaneously.
So, I think it's nice to bring in change slowly.
Maybe,
just drinking
a couple cups of water a day.
It's not so hard.
Our base is off to a great start.
But before we go any further,
let's build that arm
with the colorful bars on it.
The bar is two
by 16.
It comes together just like this.
We've got eight in the back and then we're gonna
skip two, because remember,
our hundred dollar bill has got to
fit in somewhere.
And we've got six in the front.
I'm gonna put
two by three on the back,
two by three on the back
to get to six.
And put our one by 10s on.
And join these over here.
So I've got two by 16
with an opening
eight from one side
and six from the other side.
Now on top
we're gonna bring all those colors.
Now you can use whatever colors you want.
If you like karate belt style, white,
yellow, green, whatever comes next.
I'm pretty sure it ends in black.
You've got one, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, for the seven days of the week.
And then, you've got these really cool pieces.
These are one by four gear racks.
You don't see 'em in a ton of builds,
but they're awesome.
They can be like, angry teeth.
In this build, they're not angry teeth.
They're actually
(slide whistle) for our gear
to spin in and roll the arm out
and then roll the arm back in.
The last thing that the top needs
is this.
This is a one by one wedge.
And it goes at the end of the gear racks
to keep our arm from going all the way out
and falling and disappearing,
or breaking, or just
kind of making a headache.
So when we put this on the back of it,
it's gonna keep
our arm
locked in.
'Cause that is gonna hit the gear.
And the gear's gonna be like, nah dude.
You can't go any farther.
Now we're gonna look at the bottom
of this colorful arm.
We still had that two by two opening.
And we're going to squeeze in
these one by one
round plates.
Now the reason we use round
instead of square
is round help our hundred dollar bill
fall out nice and easy.
Where square, they want to hold onto it.
Sometimes you roll it out, it's your seventh day,
you're ready to celebrate,
and your iCan all of a sudden gets stingy on you.
The next move is to keep the arm in place.
We've got a one by three, a one by four,
and a two by eight.
So, the two by eight
goes right down in the center.
The one by three
on the front side.
There we go.
And one by four
on the backside.
Now, that arms got nowhere else to go
but in and out.
Now it's time to build the rest of the mechanism.
So this uses a bunch of technic pieces.
I got a couple rods.
Some that are two long, some that are four long.
The eight tooth gear, that's just great.
This is the piece that rolls across
our gear ax.
Isn't that cool?
Also got
part of our handle.
Then a couple plates.
And then a panel.
So what you want to do to start is you want to
make sure that the position is just right.
Because you want your arm to go out to
the seventh day, where you can drop
your 100 dollar bill.
You don't want it to go any further
you don't want it to stop like there.
So, we want to count eight
before we put in our first bricks.
So one, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, eight.
After the eighth brick
boom, you can put down our
first technic one by two.
Then, we put a plate right across
we put another one by two technic piece in.
Terrific.
And behind that one by two technic piece
we have our panel.
This is gonna help keep our technic pin
exactly where we want it.
Speaking of technic pins
we're gonna grab one of our small ones
so two bricks long.
And we're gonna put this little washer
on the end.
Then, it might actually be helpful to
take that back off.
Put that right in there.
Excellent.
Now, our eight tooth gear
is gonna slide on the front side.
And then from the other end
we bring our longer
four technic pin
and slide that in.
But before we do that
we're gonna put in one more piece
just to keep it from sliding around.
Pop.
There we go, now you see that hot panel
is keeping it from going any farther back.
So we can start turning it.
Now we see that piece move,
that's no good.
So, we got this two by two plate.
Put that right on top.
And once that piece is stabilized
now we've got great cranking action.
And don't worry about going out too far.
Remember, we have this one by one wedge
right in the back.
That's gonna keep us
from losing our arm.
Now the internal mechanism is complete.
We have a couple more pieces.
And these are gonna be on the outside.
We're gonna build the crank that we move.
So the first piece to add
is this gray pin connector.
(slide whistle)
We'll slide that on.
Nice and easy.
To make sure it stays on
we're gonna add this little yellow piece
on the end.
Just like that.
Then, we're gonna take our little
one by two pin
and put that right in there too.
I'll give it a couple cranks.
(whooshing)
That does it for the mechanism.
What we're gonna do next
is fill in the rest of this layer
with bricks.
So our right side is basically
two thick, all the way.
Coming back.
Keep it going.
Come up this side.
It's only one deep on this side.
'Cause we got to keep going to that panel.
Keeping our pin in place.
Now we've got that one opening left.
Now we can't just put a brick down
because if we just put our brick down
it will get into the way of our arm coming
in and out.
So, we use three plates.
We'll put a one by two.
Up top of another one by two.
And on top of that, the number
we'll put a two by two.
Snap that into place.
We can even give it a little test.
Make sure it can get to that seventh day.
Get our money drop.
For the top, we start on both sides
with a couple six by six plates.
One on the right side.
One on the left side.
Then, on the right side
if you got a one by six you can use it.
I'm using two one by threes.
Then in the middle.
A couple of our one by sixes.
The last little piece that's open
we cover up
using our two by three.
Now you'll see that even when the top is done
the key is still visible.
I think it's a pretty cool effect.
You can kind of see the gear at work.
So the next step is to add the letters.
Now the letters are super basic
and if you don't want to write iCan on it.
If you want to write something else,
you totally can.
The name.
But here's what I'm gonna write.
(gentle music)
And when you're doing your letters
you want to make sure that you have at least
one space between.
iCan fits pretty nicely.
With a single space.
So there.
And we're almost finished.
So, if you haven't thought of a change
that you want to bring into the world,
that you would like to make for yourself
now it's a pretty good time.
What will it be?
Is it gonna be for you, for your health.
For your community, your family.
For your fun.
iCan
is now complete.
Perhaps the world's first
analog
Lego app.
(laughs) Now it is complete.
And it doesn't even have the 100 dollar bill
inside of it yet.
I must be losin' it.
100 dollar bill
goes right in our space.
Nestled up next to
our one by one little
round guys, you can see them
peekin' out.
Let's see.
Day one.
We did it.
Day two,
day three, day four,
day five, day six,
day seven.
Money time.
You deserve a hundred dollar bill.
You deserve way more than that.
Thank you so much for building along.
I'd love to hear what the change is
that you want to make in the world.
I'd love to hear your progress.
When you're cranking it all the way
you're getting to seven
are you getting that hundred dollar bill?
If you are, amazing.
And if you're not getting it in your first week
or second week, or third week,
be kind to yourself.
Change can be tricky.
And it can be a step-by-step process.
But I believe that in time, you will make the change
that you want to see
in this world.
It's been amazing.
I will see you next time.
I'll hit the street with the iCan.
And see what changes people want to make.
And see if they'll settle
for a tiny hundred dollar bill. (laughs)
Thanks so much for hanging out.
Thanks for building along.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for being you.
I will see you next time.
Peace.
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(gentle music)