Seriously long Lego system.

[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.

[nitneylion452]

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

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

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

I was trying to be sarcastic and make a little joke about the minibot rules for this year. Hence the wink emote.

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by nitneylion452

I was trying to be sarcastic and make a little joke about the minibot rules for this year. Hence the wink emote.

Ah, sorry. It was a long day...

[Chris_Ely]

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

[Dancin103]

This is absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing.