Marble Pump Lego

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.

Marble pump lego.

They don t fit into standard 2x2 lego dots marble pumps. Lego hexbug racing with raspberry pi and scratch duration. 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. All the observer sees is that marbles fall.

Old lego digital designer. In order to guide the pieces and the marbles most of the movement and working is hidden from view. Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism. Pumps every time one ball.

Can pump up to 3 marbles. The pump is always the thing that looks like magic because the pump itself occupies a very small space. Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed. Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts.

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. The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1. The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble tracks. I built a 3x3 version narrowing it to 2 5x 2 5 with serveral tricks because 3x3 would be too wide.

Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump. Controls the lego gbc. 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.

Second i show you how is designed the marble pump witch lift the marbles from the finish to the start of the hubelino tracks.