Marble Pump Lego

Markus posed the problem of building a marble pump which would elevate marbles by adding marbles to the bottom of a column of marbles and push them up.

Marble pump lego.

I built a 3x3 version narrowing it to 2 5x 2 5 with serveral tricks because 3x3 would be too wide. Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996. Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism. Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts.

The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1. Old lego digital designer. First i explain you how i made 3d printable parts which fit the duplo bricks. Lego hexbug racing with raspberry pi and scratch duration.

Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed. A new ball takes a place beneath another ball and then pushes them up. If you think you have the time and patience to assemble your own gbc with near clockwork precision verbeek has made the plans available to download. Can pump up to 3 marbles.

Pumps every time one ball. All the observer sees is that marbles fall. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump. The pump is always the thing that looks like magic because the pump itself occupies a very small space.

A pump is one of the most classic gbc great ball contraption modules but is indeed difficult to get right one of the best illustrations i know is on this site. They don t fit into standard 2x2 lego dots marble pumps. Second i show you how is designed the marble pump witch lift the marbles from the finish to the start of the hubelino tracks. Unfortunately most of the site is in german but the pictures are usually illustrative enough and i think it s a good source of information for ball machines in general not only lego ones.

Controls the lego gbc.