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| | | i have just posted pics of my rolling ball clock on brickshelf: (URL) is an explanation: This clock is based on the Arrow Handicraft Deluxe Rolling Ball Clock that was popular in the 80's. To tell the time read the hour from the 3rd row of balls. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic) !!
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| | | | | Re: (no subject) —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | (...) And, most inventive use of Soccer Balls I have ever seen :) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Rolling ball clock —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | Hey Bob! That's a really neat clock! Had never heard about it previously! Nice rendition in LEGO! Looks simple enough, but I quess getting the balls to roll safely is a trick in itself. So what basically determines the speed/accuracy of the clock is (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Rolling ball clock —Bob Kojima
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| | | | | (...) here is the link to the pictures that i used to build the clock: (URL)Looks simple enough, but I quess getting the balls to roll safely is a (...) yeah, the balls get rolling pretty fast and don't want to stay on track around the curves. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: (no subject) —Terry Prosper
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| | | | | (...) the rolling balls! I have about 100 soccer balls at home and I have some good ideas to use them, but none as cool as this! I want one too! Very well crafted. I like the color scheme too, even though in a MOC of that kind, people don't usually (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: (no subject) —Bob Kojima
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| | | | | (...) i know i could stare at it for hours. at one time i had 4 ball lifts on the chain so that it would run 4 times as fast. i'm not patient enough to wait a minute for each ball to be lifted. (...) thank you, i tried to make it as simple as (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: (no subject) —John Gerlach
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| | | | | (...) *snip* (...) Oh, I'm going to sheepishly chime in here - I 'set' the clock a couple of times during the weekend. I was so completely amazed and fascinated with it I just couldn't bear for it to not be accurate!! But once it was set, it seemed (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: (no subject) —Bob Kojima
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| | | | | (...) that's why it was always the right time. pdx was the first time i let it just run for hours so i was not really sure of how accurate it would be. (...) borrow what you want. i borrow ideas all the time. i'm glad you liked it! bob Bob Kojima (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Ball Clock (was: no subject) —Rick Clark
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| | | | (...) < snip > (...) This is a problem you will probably not solve as long as there is a bin of balls for the conveyor to draw from. The Seattle robotics guys will tell you that getting soccer/basketballs to feed reliably from a bin is a non-trivial (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.technic)
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