Marble Pump Lego

Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996.

Marble pump lego.

The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble tracks. The pump is always the thing that looks like magic because the pump itself occupies a very small space. Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism. Can pump up to 3 marbles.

I built a 3x3 version narrowing it to 2 5x 2 5 with serveral tricks because 3x3 would be too wide. The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1. 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. Second i show you how is designed the marble pump witch lift the marbles from the finish to the start of the hubelino tracks.

They don t fit into standard 2x2 lego dots marble pumps. In order to guide the pieces and the marbles most of the movement and working is hidden from view. 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.

Lego hexbug racing with raspberry pi and scratch duration. Controls the lego gbc. Pumps every time one ball. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump.

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. First i explain you how i made 3d printable parts which fit the duplo bricks. Old lego digital designer. Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts.

Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed.