How to Buy Parts & Ingredients
You will need
- LEGO® pieces
- Tubing
- Ingredients
- Two 500ml disposable water bottles
- Scissors, Ruler and Marker
LEGO® Pieces
Option 1: BrickLink.com (Estimated Price: $175 w/ shipping included = 9¢ per piece)
1) Find the parts list here, click the Buy Parts tab, and then click Add Parts to BrickLink Wanted List on that page. You may need to enable pop-ups, and you will need to sign up for a free BrickLink account.
2) Once the pop-up window is on a page asking where to upload the pieces, select the New Wanted List radio button and create a name. Click the Add Parts button, then View Wanted List.
3) In the new window, click Buy All. On the Buy Wanted Lists page, make sure the store location is set to your country if you live in a big nation (Ex: A Texan should buy from the "USA"), or you can buy from a store within your continent (ex: a Luxembourger should buy from "Europe").
4) Click Auto-select, then uncheck Select stores when item price is lower than store Minimum Buy, unless you cannot buy all your pieces otherwise, then click Start:. Click Create Carts.
5) Click Checkout for the first cart. New users need to verify BrickLink's confirmation email to proceed further.
6) Click Proceed to Checkout, then Agree and Continue to Store Terms and Conditions. Fill out your shipping address and Continue. For Payment, hit Select and Continue.
7) Checkout with that cart. Repeat this step and the previous 2 until all carts have been checked out.
8) If any of your carts required waiting for an invoice, they will reach your email or BrickLink messages inbox within a business day. Check the latter by going to My BL > My Messages. Each invoice message provides instructions on how to finish checking out with that store.
Option 2: BuildaMOC.com (Estimated Price: $295 + Complimentary Instructions)
Thanks to our partnership with BuildaMOC, you can buy the pieces as easily as buying a boxed LEGO® set! Just select the "Complete kit (parts + instructions)" option here and checkout!
Thanks to our partnership with BuildaMOC, you can buy the pieces as easily as buying a boxed LEGO® set! Just select the "Complete kit (parts + instructions)" option here and checkout!
Tubing
While the LEGO Group does sell pneumatic hoses, any silicone tubing with a 1.5mm ID and 4mm OD is compatible. The cheapest options are this eBay listing from an American seller or, instead, any color of tubing 1m long from this UK shop. We will cut the tubing to size in class.
Ingredients
The required food ingredients are dairy milk (with fat content no higher than whole milk, which is the most preferable milk type at around 3.5%), chocolate sandwich cookies and instant vanilla pudding powder. If pudding powder is not accessible where you live, make it from scratch here. At full stock, the machine will need 16.9 fl oz milk, 2 sandwich cookies and more than half a box of instant pudding powder. For the purpose of testing the machine intermittently, consider having at least twofold the ingredient amounts available.