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Cookies & Cream Pudding Machine

A fully-fledged vending machine that combines milk and pudding powder to form pudding, topped with a sandwich cookie for style.

Perfectly designed by Marcel Bonnici of Astonishing Studios to demonstrate all the main mechanisms found in food automation.
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PIECES: 1,894
DIMENSIONS: 16 x 32 studs, 23.66 bricks tall
SKILLS: Mechanical & Automation Engineering
PREREQUISITE: None

THE PERFECT BUILD FOR FOODIES & LEGO® FANS.
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Here's how it works

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Inserting a Coin

The machine accepts ~24mm dia. coins (25¢ USD, 25¢ CAD, €0.50, £0.10, etc) and rejects others via coin return.
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Unlocking the Dispensers

Upon payment, the mechanism unlocks for the customer to serve themselves pudding through pure mechanics.
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Pouring the Ingredients

By turning the big cookie, pneumatics dispense milk, gears dispense pudding powder, and a conveyor belt dispenses a cookie—all at once.
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Mixing the Pudding

The pudding cup slides to a mixing station, where a device mixes the milk and powder together.
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Retrieving the Money

Hidden in plain sight, the owner can collect their earnings by removing the camouflaged coin tray.
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Restocking the Machine

The roof comes off in three panels, allowing for easy refills, and there is easy access to the milk.
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Cookies & Cream Pudding Machine

With the 2020s normalizing contactless services, automation skills are more in-demand than ever. You'll learn how to make real food automation mechanisms in building a dessert machine from LEGO® bricks. The instructions meet you where you are and push your STEM skills to new heights.
Machine Features:
-Smooth, reliable operation
-Compatibility with 25¢ USD, 25¢ CAD, €0.50, £0.10, 5 Kč, 2 kr., and other coins around 24mm wide
-No electronics, making it electrocution-free
-Easily accessible ingredients, no matter where you live!
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Machine Features:
  • Money-taking mechanism
  • Coin rejection system
  • Storage for multiple servings of ingredients
  • Milk, pudding powder & cookie dispensers
  • Pudding mixer
  • Hidden coin bank
  • Pudding cup slider
  • Removable wall, in the case of debugging
  • Removable pudding cup tray, for cleaning
  • Nearly 2,000 LEGO® pieces

Concepts Taught:
  • Pneumatics
  • Gearing 101: Speed vs. Torque
  • Conveyor Belts 101
  • Studs-Not-On-Top Building Techniques
  • Curved Architecture with LEGO® Bricks
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Learn from the best
Marcel Bonnici

Marcel Bonnici is a Northwestern Masters in Robotics graduate and former Collins Aerospace employee. You may know him from his YouTube channel, AstonishingStudios, where he has 250 million views and 800,000 subscribers. His long list of extraordinary creations made of LEGO® bricks include a McDonald's burger robot, a Starbucks hot coffee machine and a Baskin-Robbins ice cream maker. He's been featured on TIME and Business Insider and presented at a TEDx event.
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