Lego mounting for turntable strobe
 

Hello,

After the recent mention of Lego in projects in the RWB post in Clubs and Society section I was reminded of a Lego strobe I made a while ago – hope I have the correct section for this post - move if not!

A while back I was working on a turntable motor and I needed to monitor the speed of a turntable over a long period, this meant holding an LED over a strobe disc to periodically check the speed, the problem was holding the LED over the strobe every time I wanted to check the speed got a tad tiresome; given this I mounted the LED/strobe driver PCB and LED, which I’d knocked-up to do the job on an Lego support structure with Darth Vader looking as if his Light Sabre was the source of the light acting on the strobe disc :) This was embellished with a Lego power supply box :)

Regards
Terry

Re: Lego mounting for turntable strobe
 

Lego is actually very useful for knocking up one off jigs and other tools (as is Meccano). It's worth keeping an eye open for a box of bits at car boots and flea markets if you can't nick stuff from your children or grandchildren.

Re: Lego mounting for turntable strobe
 

And then there's Fischertechnik, which is excellent (and in my opinion the best of the 3 : Fischertechnik, Meccano, Lego for such work). Just a word of warning, though. It is expensive both new and second-hand (it deserves to be!) and if you aren't careful you will end up with very little money...