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Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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Date: 
Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:26:48 GMT
Original-From: 
Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr(nomorespam).com>
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Steve Hassenplug writes:
> ho hum.  another day, another Great Ball Contraption.

Cool.  I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam, but .... we
need a reliable source of bulk balls.  It's nice of you to mail them
out to people, but we really need Lego to sell bulk balls.  How do we
convince them to do it?  Maybe we should create a fake Lego product,
the 2970 (to pick a number from the air), the Bulk Soccer Ball kit.
Then everybody calls S@H the same day and tries to order it.

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  Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
 
(...) Before Steve gave me some balls (oh, the straight lines...), I acquired enough to run a few modules of my own from various Bricklink purchases. You could do a GBC by simply mandating that everybody who wants to add to a GBC brings there own (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
 
(...) In our latest gathering, Tom invited us to his house. Turns out, we have more ball contraptions than Tom has table space in his basement. So, we moved the tables, and set-up on the floor. Of course the next problem was that I couldn't fit the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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