And I thought wargamers had too much time on their hands!

[Ferb]

God knows how long it took to build this or how much it must have cost.

Ferb


EDIT: Vid embedded.

[GordonY]

That has to be the insanist thing I've ever seen, it has to be made by the guy who owns Lego.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

My bet would be a degree level robotics project. 

[Leon]

That's insane!  I can't stop watching it now... 

[Steve J]

Brilliant and horribly addictive!

[petercooman]

Not impressed. Why make a machine to haul balls around? Wouldn't it be time better spent if he made a machine for us that paints miniatures 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

What is it FOR.......


IanS 

[FierceKitty]

Not impressed. Why make a machine to haul balls around?

It took evolution a long time to come up with just that!
  - One of them.

[Luddite]

As a Luddite i can't approve.  How many ball mover's jobs will this thing destroy?   

[Techno]

I'm afraid to say that I'm in "What on Earth was the point of that", section of this discussion.
Very clever, But........
Cheers - Perplexed of Wales.

[OldenBUA]

"What on Earth was the point of that"

"The Great Ball Contraption (GBC) is a concept invented by Team Hassenplug: set up some kind of standardized interface for LEGO® based modules to enable them to interact, in this case to pass a ball. Based on this standard, LEGO® builders distributed all over the world are able to build their particular modules to take part in this special kind of LEGO Oriented Architecture (LOA). There exists a set of these modules already, mainly in the United States."

The wargamer equivalent would be if we came up with a system where any unit painted by anybody would fit seamlessly into the armies of all other wargamers. Not likely to happen!

http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/

[Hertsblue]

Well, I guess it keeps them off street corners. 

[Techno]

Absolutely Ray....

I'd have used one of my old Subbuteo players to move the same number of balls, the same distance, in a fraction of the time.
Cheers - Phil (Bend it like Techno) Lewis...(Ooooer !)

[Last Hussar]

  "What's it for?" 

It's for being it. 

Its a hobby. A challenge.  Can we do it?  The same reason I write computer programmes for fun.  It's like wargaming. We don't need (heresy) figures, we don't need to paint them, we don't need to research the correct colours - we could use flat counters.

It's the reason we are not sitting in caves think it would be nice if we didn't die so young, and the food was nicer.