This infinite Lego domino ring is brilliant and utterly hypnotic

Forget Paul McKenna or Futurama’s Hypnotoad, there’s a new master of hypnosis, and it’s this mind-blowing infinite Lego domino ring that just keeps going and going and going.

We absolutely lovely watching Dominos fall; the more elaborate the pattern the better. But we always end up thinking about the work that must go into resetting them, and all the things that can go wrong. Lego wizard JK Brickworks has got around this problem by creating a Lego domino ring that rights itself and so can run forever.

JK Brickworks first created their infinite Lego domino ring last year, and we have the Oddly Satisfying Reddit for putting it back on our radar. They’re not wrong, this is so, so satisfying to watch in action, and watching JK put this together is nearly as entertaining.

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The way it works is that there’s a mechanism at the base of each domino which rights the domino if it’s’ fallen. JK has set these Lego dominoes up in a ring and then put a train into the inner part of the ring. As the train runs around, it catches the mechanism on fallen dominoes and raises them.

Then, with the aid of the EV3 Mindstorm kit, they arrange it so that the train moves and the dominoes fall in sync, the train righting them a second or two after. And, until the power is turned off, the whole device just keeps on running.

It’s not the only Lego masterwork JK Brickworks has come up with. They’ve made a lollipop launcher, a nerf gun and even added movement to the Lego Star Wars Endor Speeder Chase Diorama set. You can find all their creations through their YouTube channel here. Be prepared to be very impressed.