Seriously long Lego system.

[andreboos]

Originally Posted by CalTran

I can't remember what it was, but quite a few years back there used to be an actual production line toy that did this. I came with a playset, a "robot", a control station, and a few more plug-ins for more robots to play. I think they sold it at ZOOM?

You may be thinking of ROKENBOK.

The funniest part about this is that balls are occasionally sorted, only to be mixed in the next step of the process.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by andreboos

You may be thinking of ROKENBOK.

Haha yes, that's it! I loved it

[DonRotolo]

Really, who has time for that kind of thing?

Anyway, this is a good lesson in process capacity control: Notice that no part of the system is faster than any other part of the system, so you don't get a bottleneck anywhere. In fact, watch the mechanism at 4:22 - any overflow for the "slow" lower process is diverted to a simple rail up higher.

Now imagine having a job doing just that?

Not with Legos, of course, but for a production line for, say, a car. Everything has to line up just right, time-wise.

Plus a fascinating look at many different materials handling techniques.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Really, who has time for that kind of thing?

And money?

Anyway, this is a good lesson in process capacity control: Notice that no part of the system is faster than any other part of the system, so you don't get a bottleneck anywhere. In fact, watch the mechanism at 4:22 - any overflow for the "slow" lower process is diverted to a simple rail up higher.

Now imagine having a job doing just that?

Not with Legos, of course, but for a production line for, say, a car. Everything has to line up just right, time-wise.

Plus a fascinating look at many different materials handling techniques.

There are some areas of waste where the materials are spilled - all you industrial engineers out there should run some time studies and help the dude improve the process.

[Garret]

This is amazing. I love LEGOS . I need to make one of these.

[MagiChau]

Looks like a cool, micro-sized way to test out some physics.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Andrew141WOBOT

wow. thats all i can say! i was glued to the screen for all 8 minutes!
is this your creation, or something you found online?

No, I can not take any credit for this. My son posted a link to it on Facebook. I just knew the folks here on CD would appreciate it.

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Really, who has time for that kind of thing?......

Plus a fascinating look at many different materials handling techniques.

Exactly what I thought as well.

Originally Posted by MagiChau

Looks like a cool, micro-sized way to test out some physics.

What a wonderful prototyping system.

[plnyyanks]

This is so cool. I wish I had one of these.

[JesseK]

There are so many interesting concepts in that video. We now have no excuse to have a poor implementation the next time the GDC makes a ball-shooting game.

This guy (or girl...) must have timed the battery lives quite well too. Then again, nothing in the video looks like it'd overly stress a battery anyways.

Originally Posted by Gizmodo Article

All my boyhood dreams realized in thirteen minutes.

My fiancee will be happy that I may no longer want a "LEGO room" in our metaphorical mansion of the future...

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by JesseK

My fiancee will be happy that I may no longer want a "LEGO room" in our metaphorical mansion of the future...

This August we'll be staging a GBC at Brickfair in the Dulles convention center. Stop by. Plunk down a few bucks and be amazed at Lego construction in person. You'll need to add an entire metaphorical floor to your mansion afterwards.

[nitneylion452]

Hard to believe that he did all of that on no more than one NXT controller

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by nitneylion452

Hard to believe that he did all of that on no more than one NXT controller

I count at least 3, (from a quick glance)

The line following truck, the claw at the beginning, and the ball-sorter.

[Chris_Ely]

Simply Amazing!
I wonder how many Legos it took to build that?

[Dancin103]

This is absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[biancs15]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Haha yes, that's it! I loved it

Me too!!!!!
I used to play with those for hours and hours on end