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Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:58:37 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> Well, I don't have a web page made up, yet, but over the holidays, several of us
> got together to set-up a Great Ball Contraption.
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> The Great Ball Contraption is a take-off of SMART's Crate Contraption. With the
> GBC, balls are moved (instead of crates of balls). I don't really think it
> makes things easier, or harder, just different.
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> The goal is to have people build modules that conform to a standard, and can be
> set-up together, without any actual pre-configuration.
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> Here's the standard we started with:
> http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/
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> Things worked very well. Our only real problem was table space. However, a
> couple of the modules were able to make 90 degree turns, so we wrapped it around
> the table.
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> Here's the only pic I have (today):
> http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/GBCpreview.JPG
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> The only real thing to note is that the train running down the middle is made to
> bring balls from the end, back to the beginning.
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> I'll try to get more pictures, and some video posted, as soon as I can figure
> out how to compress a 30 second, 5 mb video, down to a reasonable size.
Great work Steve, and thanks for picking up the ball and running with it. Oops,
was that an unintentional pun ;)
I am already looking forward to working on a module or two for the this year's
BrickFest event. If you have four modules which can do corners, will the whole
set-up be able to be placed on a central area of tables? And run continuously?
Or do you specifically want the train, which I must say is a really cool
addition. I had been daydreaming about wacky ways of getting the balls back to
the start if corners weren't allowed, like ballistics, well calibrated of
course. I suppose, now I come to think about it, there's no reason why an
individual module can't operate ballistically - perhaps a ball fountain :)
Looking forward to seeing the mpg.
JB
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| (...) When it's "officially" assembled, we will want room for the builders to monitor modules, without blocking the view of spectators. But I'd recommend the goal for running be like last year, where the whole contraption is set to run for an hour (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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