Seriously long Lego system.

[billbo911]

This might just cause you to stare at your screen in amazement for a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=rWd3vgLaA_M

[kornjones]

im simply speechless

[davepowers]

Someone either has wayyyy to much time on their hands, or an obsession with Legos. This is honestly incredible, I love it!

[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?

[Grim Tuesday]

Dear god, that is awesome.

[Travis Hoffman]

This person should be arrested for denying LEGO parts to children in Asia.

Besides, wouldn't he be better served by ditching all the automation and paying 500 LEGO people to do the same job for pennies on the dollar?

[jmiller48167]

This had to take longer then the 6 week build season.

[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?

[1986titans]

This is definitely one of the coolest things I've seen online.

[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.

[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

[Bill_B]

More viewing of GBCs can be found at this Gizmodo page. There is serious mech.eng. education to be found in these machines. The rest of it is just fun.

[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.