{"id":23,"date":"2007-03-07T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardlikesoftware.com\/weblog\/2007\/03\/07\/lego-marble-machine\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T03:32:00","slug":"lego-marble-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardlikesoftware.com\/weblog\/2007\/03\/07\/lego-marble-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Marble Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t know what it is about this one but I like it. It sits on my desk and every now and then I turn the crank or run the motor and just watch the marbles go round. It’s fun. It’s hypnotizing. It’s pointless.<\/p>\n

A few months ago my kids and I were building with Legos and making marble runs for the Geomag marbles. I started thinking about different ways to get the marbles raised up. I remembered seeing a device not too different from the one I built but made out of wood. I saw it in a craft fair years ago and although I never saw it in motion I knew what it was for and how it worked. I thought of making my own out of wood but so far have not. Think of this Lego machine as a prototype for … Well that’s a project for another day.<\/p>\n

It is made out of various Lego, Technic, and Mindstorms kits except for the metal Geomag marbles. The yellow and green rails are from one of the Mindstorm add-on kits. There is no programming to this one. The programmable brick simply runs the motor which I turn on with the remote control. Alexandria and Isabella made the minifigs and Yoda’s hut. I added them to the video to liven it up.<\/p>\n

I have wanted to try out YouTube for a while now and sharing the marble machine seemed like a good way to do it. I’m no musician but I think it is important for videos to have a sound track. For my home videos I usually use music from my CD collection. But because this one was going public I decided to see what Creative Commons<\/a> had to offer. From there found “Fault in the air”<\/a> by DJFer. The video was made with my old Sony digital 8MM camcorder. For editing I use Adobe Premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what it is about this one but I like it. It sits on my desk and every now and then I turn…<\/p>\n

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