wow!

must be fun to finally get all these lego mindstorm things working together that is after a months of trial and error.

Also is this a sponsored project? I would not like to put up the bill for al the lego if you would have to pay for all of it :)

Wow, that really was quite awesome. Yes pointless, and lame to be made out of legos. But still, awesome.

Anyone have any guesses as to how much all those parts cost?

I’m not positive, but I think I saw some K’nex parts in there too.

Very cool project – a much more advanced version of my childhood hobbies. I became a Rube Goldberg fan the day I got the old board game, Mouse Trap.

is anyone else really sad when one of them hits the ground? the dumping part at the beginning is particularly sad :*(

the little dump truck that drives back and forth was pretty awesome, though.

Wow… a Lego-Baka

For everyone saying that one japanese guy has too much time on his hands, for fuck’s sakes, at least read the first sentence in the description…

“The idea of the Great Ball Contraption is to take modules from many builders and combine them into one large machine”

The way it works is people meet together for lego convention style meetups, they give specifications on how to build your own module to be incorporated into a massive machine.. They tell you where to expect to recieve the balls, and where to drop the balls, as well as how many balls per minute the average flow rate should be. Then, people fly from all over the world to meet up and hook their modules together to create an enormous collaborative contraption.
See here for more info: http://www.teamhassenplug.org/GBC/

The yellow stair-case lifter was the best.