Lego GBC Chain Miniloop/Kinetic Sculpture

[sawyer klegr]

This lego miniloop uses a "chain" made of technic half beams to lift the marbels up. The chain can be as long as you want and be built into any shape, each link can be bent up to 45 degrees. It is strong enough to lift marbles but if you put much more stress on it it will pull itself apart. The miniloop is quite reliable when it is running fast enough but if it is going slow then the balls start to collide at the bottom.

I would like to have made the chain longer but I ran out of parts and space on the miniloop.

 

[Frequenzberater]

Again a great Idea! Took me some seconds to understand whats going on. 

[sawyer klegr]

13 hours ago, Frequenzberater said:

Again a great Idea! Took me some seconds to understand whats going on. 

Thanks! It can take a while ;)

[doug72]

21 hours ago, Frequenzberater said:

Again a great Idea! Took me some seconds to understand whats going on. 

Yes the chain has nothing to do with the ball lift - its there to confuse the eye !!!

[Aleh]

49 minutes ago, Doug72 said:

Yes the chain has nothing to do with the ball lift - its there to confuse the eye !!!

Exactly!

Very nice and complex module! Maybe one day I'll build anybody's one.

[sawyer klegr]

16 hours ago, Doug72 said:

Yes the chain has nothing to do with the ball lift - its there to confuse the eye !!!

Yes, I guess because it is so far from the marbles it can be hard to understand.

[ArsMan064]

Simpe mechanism, but looks very nice

[sawyer klegr]

On 8/21/2018 at 8:58 PM, Aleh said:

Exactly!

Very nice and complex module! Maybe one day I'll build anybody's one.

Thanks! you should, they are very fun to build :)

[kieran]

Very nice 

[sawyer klegr]

On 8/24/2018 at 8:31 AM, kieran said:

Very nice 

Thanks :)