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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:18:40 GMT
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> I definitely plan to attend Brickfest to add my contribution to the Great Ball
> Contraption.
We look forward to seeing you there...
> I'm going to need someone to send me some soccer balls, please. I
> don't have any LEGO Sports stuff at all.
E-mail me your address.
> One suggestion for people: I don't like mystery mechanisms. I like to see how
> stuff works, so please build your stuff with as many internal parts visible as
> possible. For example, the stairs are mysterious until you see them from the
> bottom -- a cam shaft is the secret. Get rid of the walls and I'll be happier.
I really like to build my stuff with a very clean look. That usually means hiding
all the inner workings. That's why the stairs looked like this in my first build:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1055888
However, when I rebuilt it to be 32x10, I decided to open the bottom as much as
possible, to allow people to see in:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1068037
This gives it more of a "contraption" look to it.
Steve
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| What's funny is the other day I was thinking of building a marble machine with LEGO. After reading about this contraption system, I got super-motivated and built myself a ball pump last night. I only spent a few hours on it, but I think I have it (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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