17-stage Great Ball Contraption must use all the LEGO pieces

September 19, 2012 By 30 Comments

Looking at this 17-stage Great Ball Contraption makes us think that [Skiyuky] should be working in industrial automation. The build, which has been assembled from an untold volume of LEGO parts, moves a reservoir of round plastic balls around a circuit. Each module exhibits a different mechanical way of handling the parts. It’s certainly not the first GBC we’ve seen, … Read the rest

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Kinetic sculpture takes a page from modern life

December 20, 2010 By 24 Comments

The blurry image above is a snap of toy cars as they zoom around a multi-lane, multi-level, maniacal-maze called Metropolis II. We originally took a look at the video after the break (do it now!) but found more information on [Chris Burden's] kenetic sculpture in this NYT article. He and eight studio artists began work on the project … Read the rest

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