Today on REBRICKULOUS we're finding inspiration from one of the greatest
inventors in history Leonardo da Vinci
today on ridiculous we're channeling our inner Leonardo da Vinci. Yeah we're at this
awesome Leonardo da Vinci museum dedicated his work we're gonna split up
learn about his ideas come up with some of our own. Pereception's really cool and
the fact that we can hack it and we can find out ways that it kind of doesn't
work for us is even more amazing and I think it's awesome that Leonardo da
Vinci thought that it was really important. "our knowledge is the offspring
of our perceptions" So everything we know is only because of what we can see hear
feel taste and smell. So da Vinci actually came up with a flying machine
like 400 years before the Wright brothers ever took flight this guy was
definitely way ahead of his time this behind me is actually a model of his
flying machine probably my favorite of his inventions he was a painter he was a
sculptor he was an architect he did all that stuff but my favorite is he was an
engineer and he used the artistic and the creativity and the science of the
math he put those all together and it came up with crazy stuff like this. Inventions are all about exploring new ideas and new concepts that wouldn't
normally explore and that's why I'm so inspired by Leonardo da Vinci I'm
wondering if I can create something obviously not as cool as Leonardo da
Vinci but man he would make an incredible YouTuber back in the day. Did you
guys find anything interesting? Everything. Do you have any ideas of some
stuff that we could possibly do with all this inspiration. I'm ready to go, you
ready to go? I am. All right I didn't know that much about da Vinci going into it
but now I'm like super impressed by this guy he actually invented this
self-propelled cart for his friend. What I want to do is I want to bring that
idea into the 21st century and I want to use only LEGO Technic pieces and I'm
gonna try and build a car that can do similar things to the self propel cart. In
the 1940s that's when the first helicopter was designed but the really
cool part was that da Vinci designed it like 400 years prior to that I'm taking
his helicopter I'm bringing it to life and when I'm hoping to happen is half a
working propeller and working tail. We're gonna see if we can make some cool
illusions animations that sort of thing I'm gonna get a stop-motion build
together that I've never really done before but I'm gonna try for the first
time we'll see how it goes.
I've got my front two wheels I've got my back two wheels which are also spinning
independently I always have to figure out how to make these two pieces speak
to each other.
I think I think they're ready for me gonna meet up with them over there on
set and we are gonna show you guys our finished builds. Leonardo da Vinci as you
know wasn't just a brilliant inventor but he was also an artist. He sketched
out the designs for helicopter with a helical air screw I decided to actually
bring it to life. This is amazing. So we created this little contraption here. What're you gonna call it? I'll call it the
helicopter. We've got a little Niemann over here throwback to a egg drop. What're you going
to do today oh I don't know Oswald, well there's a big scary world out there when
you're an egg. Alright this hand cranks yeah the gears turn and then you
actually I think this is the coolest part here like this gear right here is
like parallel with the table but then this gear is upright so they're
perpendicular to each other which is allowing it to make this happen which is
pretty sweet this is my self repel cart 21st century edition it's got some RC
components in it this is the first super important thing you see this little gear
up here? Yep. So this is attached to a little motor you can use it to turn left
and to the right and see how it's turning that gear the backside a little
more complicated it actually has what's called a rear differential so it allows
me when I'm turning to the wheels to spin in opposite directions which makes
me be able to take like sharper turns. It can go this way, it can go this way...It can do a little something like that.
It's got a mind of its own sometimes. So my topic was a little bit different than
you guys mine was about perception if we look over here it's an optical illusion
because of the way that the zigzag pattern is against the checkerboard
pattern so then it makes it seem as though there's a circle in the middle
even though it's just lines but the way that your mind works makes it feel as
though it's real I was trying to make it a little bit better so I took it a step
further and I made a little something you guys wanna check it out? Yes. All
right let's see it.
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