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In lugnet.mediawatch, Duane Hess wrote:
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> For the contest at this summer's fair, the machines can use gears, pulleys,
> motors, rubber bands and strings to accept a rolling ball and raise a flag for
> five seconds before ejecting the ball.
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> The trick will be to design the machines so that they can be connected with
> others to form the largest Rube Goldberg machine ever built.
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> Building a "cascadeable" machine — one that can be connected to others — is
> actually simpler than it sounds, said Jill Wilker, president of Playing at
> Learning, the non-profit organization that's helping organize the event.
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> “Lego has a baseplate they are very strict about (it’s dimensions),” Wilker
> said. “We’ve defined three entry points on one side of the baseplate, and nine
> exit points” for the ball on the remaining sides.
9?? That seems overly complex.
> Wilker said organizers may have to build some “transition” machines to carry the
> ball from one contraption to another. But she said other Lego groups already
> have developed the techniques needed to interconnect many independently built
> components to form giant train layouts or “Mars scapes.”
or Moonbases!
Cool. Someone's been cribbing ideas from the GBC activities I guess.
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| (URL) with Legos, be a part of history World's biggest Rube Goldberg machine to be constructed at Alameda County fair By Matt Carter, STAFF WRITER PLEASANTON — Among the prize-winning pigs and flower arrangements at this summer's Alameda County (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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