Holy awesomesauce Batman!

[Jodell88]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sUtS52lqL5w#!

:biggrin: :awe:

 

[wirednuts]

im almost speechless. that is 7min of my life i will never want back!

if the guy that did that is NOT a mechanical engineer, he could be. and if he doesnt work for LEGO, he should! if you put that in malls, you would have to imagine kids would be begging their parents to buy legos

 

[SandEagle]

difficulty level: Asian

 

[waggy]

yeah someone posted that last year or so. very cool project

 

[JTsyo]

It's like an episode of How Things Are Made. 600 hours of work though, that's crazy.

 

[wirednuts]

It's like an episode of How Things Are Made. 600 hours of work though, that's crazy.

600 hours of fun work though. if you call it work. i probably have 20,000 hours of lego 'work' under my belt

 

[SunnyD]

But but... I can write code!



Ah fuck it, who am I kidding. Dude's gonna end up being some process engineer for some huge company making millions designing production lines and I'm going nowhere in life.

 

[PricklyPete]

Amazingly awesome.

 

[wirednuts]

But but... I can write code!



Ah fuck it, who am I kidding. Dude's gonna end up being some process engineer for some huge company making millions designing production lines and I'm going nowhere in life.

i wonder... because honestly i think a lot of us could build that, but he does have some ideas in there that i doubt i would have thought of...

im really curious to who built it and what his background is

 

[Zeze]

2:10 is just awesome because it's not as 'controlled'. You can only get to next part by going through the hoop, or it's repeated. Is the fail rate constant to not have a backflow? That's amazing.

 

[Gooberlx2]

That's awesome! That's gotta be crazy expensive for all that mindstorms gear. I can't even find a place online to buy the S750 robot arm, but I can't imagine it's cheap.

 

[kag]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with the time they put in that useless project rather than the level of difficulty? When you think about it, it's simply many (many!) independent systems put one after the other. But the technical level of each one is not that high.

 

[Zeze]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with the time they put in that useless project rather than the level of difficulty? When you think about it, it's simply many (many!) independent systems put one after the other. But the technical level of each one is not that high.

It's not even technical level. I couldn't even think of some of the innovative transport devices.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Wow... that's pretty impressive.

 

[rivan]

yeah someone posted that last year or so. very cool project

It's been updated since then. I thought the same thing.

 

[wirednuts]

Am I the only one who's more impressed with the time they put in that useless project rather than the level of difficulty? When you think about it, it's simply many (many!) independent systems put one after the other. But the technical level of each one is not that high.

it wouldnt be useless if he sold it to a business. some retail store or kids resturaunt would love to have something like that. say it was at chuckee cheeses, and you give each kid a ball with their name on it. all the balls go in at the same time, and whoevers finishes first gets a prize. you would have a whole group of kids just standing there behaving themselves.

 

[TXHokie]

I like the basketball shooting part. Must've taken a while getting that tuned for 99.9% shot percentage. I'd probably just sit and stare at these balls moving around for hours.

 

[JTsyo]

In the beginning, I thought the machine was sorting, one basketball and one soccer ball per bin and that the colored balls were going to get tossed. But then I realized it was just for tracking progress through the machine.

 

[Lyfer]

I'd probably just sit and stare at these balls moving around for hours.

 

[SunnyD]

I like the basketball shooting part. Must've taken a while getting that tuned for 99.9% shot percentage. I'd probably just sit and stare at these balls moving around for hours.

You know how I know you're gay?

Just kidding.

 

[96Firebird]

Ah fuck it, who am I kidding. Dude's gonna end up being some process engineer for some huge company making millions designing production lines and I'm going nowhere in life.

Not necessarily. A company doesn't want something that complex when they have an automation setup, they want to keep it simple, yet enough to do the job.

With that said, the setup in the video is awesome and I wish I had the time to build something like that.

 

[Phoenix86]

It's not even technical level. I couldn't even think of some of the innovative transport devices.

Even more than that is the flow, as you mentioned one has a bit of randomness. The one that follows can take various loads to handle the randomness of the one before it. Making all that happen without overloading one section is pretty amazing. Also, I only saw one minor flaw (soccer ball got stuck) but nothing fell out, even on the roller coaster.

 

[ThePresence]

Just awesome.

 

[Howard]

It's not even technical level. I couldn't even think of some of the innovative transport devices.

That's because you don't work in the packaging or manufacturing industry.

 

[Howard]

Even more than that is the flow, as you mentioned one has a bit of randomness. The one that follows can take various loads to handle the randomness of the one before it. Making all that happen without overloading one section is pretty amazing. Also, I only saw one minor flaw (soccer ball got stuck) but nothing fell out, even on the roller coaster.

Accumulation + speed following is a simple way of doing it.