Answers.Body: <p>The best solution is to create custom LEGO-compatible bricks that your servos (or other parts) fit into. This can be done by: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>modding existing bricks with knives, glue and other tools</li>
  <li>building bricks from other material (<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Wooden-Legos/" rel="noreferrer">wooden LEGO</a>, formed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimo" rel="noreferrer">Fimo</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpey" rel="noreferrer">Sculpey</a>...)</li>
  <li>building bricks with a 3D-printer (for instance see the <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/tag%3aLEGO" rel="noreferrer">LEGO category on thingiverse</a>). There are online services to print your designs if you don't have a 3D printer (yet ;-)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Each strategy is worth another question here at bricks.SE.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: To add to this answer, I would also suggest looking at [The Free Universal Construction Set](http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/). While they don't provide anything for integrating legos and servos specifically, there's a lot of examples of how to integrate Legos with non Legos components (some of which might make integrating a servo easier.)
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Answers.Body: <p>Depending on your rigidity requirements, I've found <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=doublesided%20tape&amp;hl=en&amp;tbo=d&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;biw=1264&amp;bih=851&amp;sei=x1uZUK97qOXRAYbcgegF" rel="nofollow">double-sided tape</a> to work well.  </p>
  
  <p>It's cheap and found in many general goods store. The servo itself can be taped and supported on all four sides and/or the bottom to many types of lego brick surfaces.</p>
  
  <p>You can also use double-side tape to mount a lego surface to a servo control horn. That provides nearly infinite mounting flexibility. However, the control horn attachment will not be very rigid or support a lot of weight without an additional structures to support whatever is actually moving.</p>
  
  <p>When finished, you can just peel the tape off.  (...which is sometimes easier said than done.)</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm looking for a non-destructive way to structurally attach a standard hobby servo with LEGO bricks.  I'm interested in answers for either Large, Medium, or Small size servos.</p>
  <p>I'm using LEGO Mindstorms/Technic bricks to prototype all kinds of robotic projects and I often use non-LEGO parts for the electronics (e.g. Arduino, Servos, LEDs, ...).  I'm always trying to find better ways to integrate those non-LEGO parts without damaging the LEGO bricks.</p>
  <p>I'm aware that there are some commercial adaptors available on the market but I'm interested in creative homemade solutions (low-cost to no-cost).</p>
  <p>For example: here is one way to attach a medium-sized servo to a LEGO Technic beam:</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/bP3PH.jpg" alt="Servo attached to LEGO Technic beam" /></p>
  
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Comments.Text: At first I thought you were speaking of the electr(on)ic part of things, but now I think you may rather be after the physical assembly to LEGO parts - right?
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Comments.Text: @Joubarc Yes I'm talking about the physically attaching servos and LEGO bricks together. I'll clarify and add a image to help.
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Title: Homemade methods for interfacing a Hobby Servo with LEGO bricks
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ThreadText: # Homemade methods for interfacing a Hobby Servo with LEGO bricks
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2012-10-06)
  
  I'm looking for a non-destructive way to structurally attach a standard hobby servo with LEGO bricks. I'm interested in answers for either Large, Medium, or Small size servos.
  
  I'm using LEGO Mindstorms/Technic bricks to prototype all kinds of robotic projects and I often use non-LEGO parts for the electronics (e.g. Arduino, Servos, LEDs, ...). I'm always trying to find better ways to integrate those non-LEGO parts without damaging the LEGO bricks.
  
  I'm aware that there are some commercial adaptors available on the market but I'm interested in creative homemade solutions (low-cost to no-cost).
  
  For example: here is one way to attach a medium-sized servo to a LEGO Technic beam:
  
  ![Servo attached to LEGO Technic beam](https://i.sstatic.net/bP3PH.jpg)
  
  **Tags:** technic, building, compatibility, electronics, 3rd-party
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: At first I thought you were speaking of the electr(on)ic part of things, but now I think you may rather be after the physical assembly to LEGO parts - right?  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 Yes I'm talking about the physically attaching servos and LEGO bricks together. I'll clarify and add a image to help.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2012-11-06. Score: 5 | Accepted answer
  
  The best solution is to create custom LEGO-compatible bricks that your servos (or other parts) fit into. This can be done by:
  
  * modding existing bricks with knives, glue and other tools
  * building bricks from other material ([wooden LEGO](http://www.instructables.com/id/Wooden-Legos/), formed with [Fimo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimo)/[Sculpey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpey)...)
  * building bricks with a 3D-printer (for instance see the [LEGO category on thingiverse](http://www.thingiverse.com/tag%3aLEGO)). There are online services to print your designs if you don't have a 3D printer (yet ;-)
  
  Each strategy is worth another question here at bricks.SE.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: To add to this answer, I would also suggest looking at [The Free Universal Construction Set](http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/). While they don't provide anything for integrating legos and servos specifically, there's a lot of examples of how to integrate Legos with non Legos components (some of which might make integrating a servo easier.)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2012-11-06. Score: 4
  
  Depending on your rigidity requirements, I've found [double-sided tape](https://www.google.com/search?q=doublesided%20tape&hl=en&tbo=d&tbm=isch&sa=X&biw=1264&bih=851&sei=x1uZUK97qOXRAYbcgegF) to work well.
  
  It's cheap and found in many general goods store. The servo itself can be taped and supported on all four sides and/or the bottom to many types of lego brick surfaces.
  
  You can also use double-side tape to mount a lego surface to a servo control horn. That provides nearly infinite mounting flexibility. However, the control horn attachment will not be very rigid or support a lot of weight without an additional structures to support whatever is actually moving.
  
  When finished, you can just peel the tape off. (...which is sometimes easier said than done.)
  
  
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