(hip hop music)
- Friends, welcome back to Brick by Brick.
I am your host, Adam Ward,
and if you're anything like me
you've probably got a desk somewhere.
And sometimes you just don't wanna be at that desk,
you've got too much energy, you wanna go outside,
you wanna do something other than what you're working on.
But sometimes we gotta stay at that desk.
So there's a lot of things out in the world right now
to help us fidget, help us play,
help us take our mind off whatever we're working on,
so I wanted to make some Lego versions.
So I've made some spinners and
I've also made a Lego fidget cube.
Now this Lego fidget cube has six sides
and each side has a different module.
It's got a turntable.
(turntable scratching)
It's got a googly eyed little joystick
that goes every direction.
It's got a switch,
up and down, up and down.
It's got a slider,
a lever,
and (snapping) a very satisfying wheel.
So, we're gonna learn how to make these awesome little toys
that might make your school, your desk, your work, whatever,
just a little bit more fun.
(funky music)
Each side of the fidget cube is on a four by four
plate base, so we're gonna go side by side.
First up is the joystick.
So we start with our four by four base
and on the sides of this base we are going to use
some of our very wonderful SNOT bricks,
a stud not on top.
So what we're gonna do is we are gonna put SNOT bricks
facing away from each other on all four sides.
These SNOT bricks are gonna help this side
of our fidget cube connect all the other sides.
Next up we've got two more SNOT bricks
but these are super special cause they've got studs
on two sides.
So what we wanna do is we wanna turn our base
and slide these SNOT bricks in
so their studs are sticking in the opposite direction
as the gray SNOT bricks.
Once those are in we grab two more
and those are gonna go opposite from the double.
And these just have a single stud on the side,
nothing on the inside.
Then to get our joystick that really cool motion
we use a ball and socket joint.
So we're gonna snap our ball right into our socket
and we're gonna take a boat tile
and put it up behind the ball joint.
And we're gonna take little one by one rounded plates,
put it right on like that.
Then we've got this really cool piece.
It is a rounded two by two jumper plate.
And this goes right on top.
Now I like to use an eye just to give your fidget cube
a little personality, you can name it,
turn it into a character if you want,
but any one by one tile will work great.
And put the eye just on like that.
And then what we do is we grab two more SNOT bricks.
And these SNOT bricks are gonna connect
right to the back.
And then on the front side we are going to put down
one one by two tile.
We're gonna slide this in to the center of our four by four
plate, and what's cool is about these sand green SNOT bricks
is they've got that stud on the side
and that stud pokes out just enough to touch this tile,
so our joystick is super secure in there,
it's not going anywhere.
To secure it even more we grab a couple
of one by two bricks, slide those in like so,
and I like to put the tiles on
to give it that nice clean finish.
And since it's got a eye let's name it something.
Let's call our joystick Patricia
is the name of this joystick. (laughs)
You can call your joystick anything you want.
Joystick is done, now it's time for the wheel.
Just like the joystick, the wheel is built
on a four by four plate.
And then we're using the SNOT bricks again.
Put one by one in all of the corners.
So we got one side with two facing out
and another side with two facing out.
Now, in between one of those SNOT bricks
we are going to put a jumper plate.
So that's the plate that has the one by one in the center
and we are gonna grab a little wedge
and put it right on top of that jumper plate.
Then we take that whole thing
and slide it right in there.
And this is the piece that gives the wheel
the little bit of resistance and makes that awesome sound.
I'm a big fan of it.
Alright, our ridge is in place,
so now we're gonna grab two more SNOT bricks
and put them off on the same side
as this lower part of the wedge.
On top of those SNOT bricks we are going to put
a one by four plate, connect those all together,
and make them nice and strong.
And then on top of that is gonna go our wheel and our axle.
We've got this wheel, it's about three bricks
and it's got the really nice tread, I love these wheels,
so cool to put on cars.
So we snap that on.
And this wheel is gonna go right there
but before we do it we wanna put down
a two by two tile,
keep it nice and smooth.
Then our wheel pops into place,
and you can just hold it down with your thumb
and give it a little test drive.
(snapping)
Oh, I love that noise.
Then we've got more SNOT bricks for this side that stick out
and then we've got this panel.
A little one by two panel, the bottom looks like a tile
but it's got this cool ridge on the side.
And that's gonna go right in there.
Then we're just gonna make things even,
so we're gonna take a one by four plate,
put it right there,
and then a one by two plate,
put it right on top like that so it matches the wheel side
with the non wheel side,
then we've got these really cool tiles, but they're rounded,
so there's an opening in a middle for a one by two,
so over the axle and over this spot.
And we put those on,
and now our wheel is nice and secure,
we've got this cool rounded feel for our cube.
(snapping)
And we can just spin away all day long.
I could literally do that forever, but I won't.
Our wheel is done, we got our joystick done.
And the reason we started with those two
is these are the two largest sides of the fidget cube.
We can think about these pieces as being our north
and our south, they are gonna be opposite each other.
And when we look we can see that if we hold it like this
we see all of these studs sticking out on each side.
So these are the sides where
our smaller modules are gonna go.
Ready for the next sides?
Here we go.
This one is super duper simple.
All you do is get a four by four rounded plate,
and this is a four by four turntable.
Take the plate,
snap it on the turntable,
ready to go.
That's like the easiest side in the world.
Let's put this one aside for now,
and we're also gonna do our switch.
Our switch, got a four by four plate,
then on top of the four by four plate
we are going to put little one by fours.
And we've got this great 90 degree one by two hinge,
one of my favorite pieces, really awesome
for doors or cockpits, all sorts of different things
that you can use these for.
Right on top of the one by two hinge
goes this one by two plate with a bar on the side.
And I'll put that so the bar is facing away
from the opening.
Now on top of the bar we are going to put
a little one by two grill.
These pieces are really cool
and they give your finger a little bit of resistance,
it's like a really nice thing to hold on to,
and then this whole apparatus, how do you like that word,
this whole apparatus is going to go right there,
but not yet because we're going to finish the perimeter
by adding another level of plates
and then on top of those plates
we're gonna keep the smooth train rolling,
we're gonna do tiles.
So got some one by four tiles,
boom and shaloom,
and some one by two tiles.
Then we take our switch,
put it right in there with our bar facing out.
Give it a little test.
Oh, that's good, oh that sound.
I'm gonna drop a beat.
So now we've got two of the other sides.
So if we take our turntable and attach it to one side,
and then our wheel and use the SNOT bricks there
to attach it, we can see that our fidget cube
is already coming together.
So we still got one, two sides left.
Next up we've got the slidey side,
slider, slidey, Sir Slidesalot, whatever you wanna call it.
Again, no surprise here, we start with a four by four plate.
Then on top of the plate we're gonna build the surface
that our piece is gonna slide across,
right in the center from one side
all the way to another side.
Then what you're gonna want to do is
you're going to take some one by four plates
and put them right there.
Then on top of those one by four plates
to keep the cool ergonomic feel going
we're gonna put some wedges.
And we're gonna put the wedges so that the higher side
of the wedge is on the inside
and the lower side is on the outside.
Then we have a one by two opening
and a one by two opening.
So this calls for some one by twos.
And I stack one on top of the other,
and we're gonna put those right in there, okay.
So we've got the base, now it's time
for the top part that actually slides
and we use a two by four tile.
Now if you don't have a two by four tile
you can totally use two one by fours
right next to each other.
The cool thing about the two by four is it's just one piece
so there's fewer creases and different pieces
that the slider can get caught up on
because you want your slider to be as smooth as possible.
So we're gonna put our one to the side right now
and bring out the other pieces
that we'll build this apparatus with.
We start with a one by four plate.
I'm gonna put these little rounded one by ones on each side.
In between that we put our one by two tile.
I'm gonna put this right on top of our base.
I'm gonna use our two by four,
snap that down, and then again we're using
our one by four curved tile, it's gonna go right on top
and connect it.
(rattling)
That's it for the slider.
My friends, we have done five of six sides,
meaning we only have one side left.
It's time to get clever with the lever.
So another four by four plate,
and what we're gonna do is we've got these jumper plates
and what's super cool about jumper plates
is they help us move builds over by a half stud.
So we are gonna put these right in the middle, like so.
And what that does is that allows us to have a space
of three bricks apart centered on a four plate.
Really cool when you need to use some technic pieces,
and here the technic pieces come.
So we have got some technic one by two bricks,
we have got a technic pin that's three bricks long,
hence the distance of these jumper plates,
and then we've got this technic bar connector
that is at like I think 135 degree angle,
yeah, about, feels about 135 degrees, give or take,
it's more than 90 cause over 90 it would be
sticking straight up.
So, math city, you are welcome everybody.
We're gonna take our three technic pin long
and slide it all the way through,
so we've got blue sticking out of both sides,
and then we're gonna connect that to our one by two
technic bricks, and now these bricks, one, two, three apart,
fit perfectly, boom, right on top of our jumper plates,
and even though it's just barely sticking out
you can already feel a little bit of that motion.
Movement, motion, mution, movement,
making new words while making a fidget cube
and teaching math, man, a lot of birds in one throw.
Okay, now we've got one by four tiles,
we're gonna stick those right down there,
and now we've got these technic pins,
these are the smallest technic pin around,
just two studs long, we're going to slide these
inside of our lever.
We've then got these really cool little balls.
They've got the technic pin bottom
and then they're round on top.
Slide these fellas on,
boop, boop,
and now it's really fun
and really easy for your thumb to catch on.
And two last exposed surfaces,
a tile for you, my friend, and a tile for you,
and that is the sixth side, the last, the missing link.
So we've got our sixth side, we've got our slider,
and we've got our fidget cube with four of six sides,
so if we add these on top,
then this connection there, flip it over,
just like that.
So there it is friends, our fidget cube is complete.
And you might be thinking to yourself,
what if I want a different order?
The four that we did, the lever, the turntable,
the slider, and the switch, you can put these
in any order you want, and if you want you can also
put them in different directions.
The only thing that I recommend is starting
with the two large ones and putting those
on opposite ends, if you don't you're gonna have
to add more bricks and your fidget cube is gonna
grow and grow and grow until it doesn't fit
in anybody's pocket.
Or what you can do if you really want to go
B A N A N A S with it
is you can take one side and make a fidget spinner
of all one item.
Like Steve, the director of Brick By Brick,
he loves himself a turntable, so I made him
a all turntables fidget cube,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And what's cool about that is you can slide it that way
or that way and get super turntabley with it.
Friends, there you have it, our fidget cube is complete,
six sides of fun, six different modules,
different pieces coming together in an interesting way
to bring a little bit of fun to the boring in your life.
In traffic fidget cube, even worse in line at the DMV,
fidget cube.
Waiting for your friend to meet you for the movie
even though he said that for sure he would be on time
this time but you're still waiting and you just missed
two trailers for awesome blockbuster films coming out,
Benjamin,
fidget cube.
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