TViRuSX900 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What's the point of this contraption besides the obvious "moving balls in a cirlce"?

Gineacraze34 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

coolest thing EVER

WaterCow12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

its called lego

einschneidend (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

CO0L

Virtical (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that got sooo much cooler when i realised it was lego, top job!

NicoX448 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

where can you buy these "ball contraption" things?

brdavis5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes (but not in this video). Search YT for "LEGO flip-flop". I've even managed a "computer" (well, simple binary calculator) based on the mechanism.

brdavis5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hmm... a little bit of information. The GBC (stands for Great Ball Contraption) is a collective, cooperative sort of kinetic sculpture. The "device" in this video is actually many separate pieces that can be rearranged in many ways, and were built by different people (in some cases people from different countries). It's "use" might be debated... but there are a goodly number of things out there with limited "usefulness" (including, in most cases, YT :) ). But it is very entertaining.

vgmaster20000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I wonder how many legos it took to make that.

matt18e (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

are their any of these made of flip flop gates