Whoa! Great piece of work, Iain. Nobody does this better than you. You are the marble king! The movie shows a very smooth operation. I don't see any "flying marbles". Very well engineered and fun to watch. BTW your presentation is very professional. (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
(...) Oh My Goodness!! Was that ever fun to watch! You never cease to inspire me--the Delta 'bot at the last competitoin was beautiful to watch, and so is this! Iain, Keep up the great work! Dave (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
Really great construction, very cool movie (but with one colored marble the cycle would have been easier to follow...) ...and you built that in only 3 1/2 h ???? I still have to improve a lot my building skills :p Philo www.philohome.com (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
Inspiring model. The excellent movie provides an effective internet medium to present such a fascinating moving model. Keep up the good work. (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
(...) Iain, I have to add my congratulations for this project! I have worked on many real-world carousel assembly machines, including one that assembles 35mm film casettes and one for firearm cartridges. You sure have captured the appearance of a (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
Iain, Do you have a .dat file available of your neat machine. I would like to understand more of the mechanisms you used. Guido (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)