Claire Xen  🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🧙🏻‍♀️ BLM  🏴 🚩

Now I wanna build a 3-minute-tee-maker contraption out of Lego, purely mechanical (including a mechanical timer) for extra credits.

ooh I can see the rube goldberg machine... other than the timer I guess all you need is a pulley and a counterweight to release to pull the tea-egg out... so better get creative on that timer

I actually thought of maybe either lowering the container with the tea from a stationary tea egg and/or just opening a valve to release the tea into the thermos, or something similar.

if you have to buy things that's cheating. only things that you happen to have lying around at home count. (challenge mode: my house has zero nerd stuff lying around. I don't even know how to solder. there are large amounts of cardboard though.)

Cardboard challenge accepted! It only needs to work once, right? Like an egg drop. :D

I'll classify that as a win condition if the normal tea ustensils remain in a usable form for the next time. There's a lot of cardboard to use up.

Omg! :D So I am thinking wet cardboard rips easier than dry one. So single-use timer based on capillary effect? When it rips it pulls out the tea bag, or drops the cup. Would require some testing to see how reproducible the timing is.