God knows how long it took to build this or how much it must have cost.
Ferb
EDIT: Vid embedded.
That has to be the insanist thing I've ever seen, it has to be made by the guy who owns Lego.
My bet would be a degree level robotics project. :D
That's insane! I can't stop watching it now... :D
Brilliant and horribly addictive!
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 :D :D :D :D :D
What is it FOR.......
IanS :-\ :-\ :-\
Quote from: petercooman on 08 February 2013, 07:29:49 PM
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.
As a Luddite i can't approve. How many ball mover's jobs will this thing destroy? >:(
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.
Quote from: Techno on 09 February 2013, 11:13:58 AM
"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/
Well, I guess it keeps them off street corners. :D
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 !) ;)
>:( "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.