Marble Pump Lego

First i explain you how i made 3d printable parts which fit the duplo bricks.

Marble pump lego.

A new ball takes a place beneath another ball and then pushes them up. 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. In order to guide the pieces and the marbles most of the movement and working is hidden from view. 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. 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. All the observer sees is that marbles fall. Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts.

The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble tracks. Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996. 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.

Lego hexbug racing with raspberry pi and scratch duration. Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed. 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. They don t fit into standard 2x2 lego dots marble pumps.

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. 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. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump. Controls the lego gbc.

Pumps every time one ball.