Even with just a few Lego gears and a motor, useful lifting mechanisms can be made. In this video, I showed a few of them, such as a Parallelogram and Scissor Lift. Some of the mechanisms can lift a decent weight, a couple of kilos or even more. Maybe in the next videos I will do a destructive test.
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