Controls the lego gbc.
Marble pump lego.
Pumps every time one ball.
Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts.
I built a 3x3 version narrowing it to 2 5x 2 5 with serveral tricks because 3x3 would be too wide.
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.
Old lego digital designer.
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.
Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism.
The pump is always the thing that looks like magic because the pump itself occupies a very small space.
The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble 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.
Can pump up to 3 marbles.
All the observer sees is that marbles fall.
A new ball takes a place beneath another ball and then pushes them up.
Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump.
The lego marble machine it all started christmas 1996 when my brother markus pulled out the big box of legos at home and we started building various little machines again.
Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996.
Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed.
Second i show you how is designed the marble pump witch lift the marbles from the finish to the start of the hubelino tracks.
The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1.
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.