30 - A LEGO GBC Module to test Compliance with the Standard 

Thank you. An official GBC set would be nice. Should include a new type of PoweredUp motor that is wall powered and can is made for heavy long time use (which current LEGO motors aren't, unfortunately).

Thank you. Getting the pieces in the correct colors is kind of made easier by designing digitally. I can usually get the necessary pieces before even starting with physical building (aside from some prototypes of single components sometimes). If you design physically you don't as easily order parts when you've an already built and finished module, I guess.

I was about to make the same suggestion! Just add a piece at one end of the second row of green tiles of the first tipper that when it is down would act as a "no" gate and "yes" when up. Something like a flag piece and voila! no more 31st ball.

Thanks! (It's what you gotta do if you don't want to be able to run a number of modules at a show without too many issues. *lol*)

Thanks, Steve, also for creating a standard that was accepted and implemented around the world and allows us all to do what we do. :-) (Not too many other standards achieved that. *lol* )

Nice. Happy to be on there. 🙂

Thank you! Two also make it easier to keep the right direction for the output. 🙂

Thank you very much. Unfortunately, finding time for work, LEGO, LEGO RU-vid and the rest of lift is always a challenge. 🙂I have a show coming in two weeks and hope to find time to do more videos after that, though. I've even shot another video I still need the time to edit. So something will be there, eventually.

Danke! Ja, Förderbänder sind ein sicherer Mechanismus. :-) Die Wippen funktionieren in der Tat auch ganz gut, wenn der Tisch einigermaßen gerade ist. War schön auf der Phaeno Bricks. Freue mich schon auf das nächste mal.

Thanks. Trying to use as many different accent colors as possible in different modules.

That might be an idea, actually. Such gates closing from above aren't without issues, though. A ball can get caught underneath and jam the whole module. Adding a more sophisticated gate would be possible, of course, but it would be kind of a workaround. I'd prefer to fix the initial problem and space out balls evenly. The problem occurs quite rarely but we'll see with what fixes I (or others) might come up. :-)

Maybe try to bounce balls smoothly from one direction to another e.g. with a piece presenting a 45° angle if you want to change the trajectory by 90° instead of stopping them head-on before they roll down a ramp. Taking a 0.2s timelapse of the module from above and stacking all the corresponding images might show you where the variation appears.

@@charleslambert3368 That might be an idea, actually. Video analysis is certainly useful in GBC (if I'll find the time for it *lol*).

@@coastropolisbrick-built I mean you could just record and upload the audio and video to see if the internet at large can figure it out where the variation is coming from.

A shorter design would be interesting. This would be 10 studs wide, though, and you would have to narrow the output to fit the 8x8 input bin of the next module, which is always challenging to keep from jamming.

I did make instructions for it, as always. 😉

@@coastropolisbrick-built spectacular build. Where can we download the instructions please?

@@coastropolisbrick-built Seconding the request for a link to instructions. I'd suggest including them in the description. That's the first place I usually check. 😄

@@WilliBadenhorst @Dan Riehl I was replying to Pinwheel since he knows where to reach out to me for the instructions. They aren't publicly available yet but I'm planning to have a website and link the instructions in every video. If you're interesting in instructions for "30", though, I'll figure out an interim solution for it and post a link here soon.

@@coastropolisbrick-built yes please! Heck, if you have some way of getting a kick-back for me buying the bricks to make it, let me know so I can do that.

This is an idea but might also introduce new issues (which is basically the case with all GBC "improvements" *lol*). (See also my answer to Pystro's comment.)

Thanks! 🙂

Might be. They'd have to include motors made for long-time running then, though (which the GBC community would highly appreciate :-) ).

Yes, that might work. But such a gate can also cause jams. (See also my answer to Pystro's comment.)

Thanks!

Yes, that might work. Such a gate could also cause jams, though. (See also my answer to Pystro's comment.)

1/6 tipping will be slower than 1/3 tipping though, and his current issue is exactly with 1/3 occasionally not keeping up due to inconsistencies with the ramp. The lower tipper he said worked fine so that's not really an issue.

Thank you! I created the models in BrickLink Stud.io, exported them to Blender and did the animation there.

@@coastropolisbrick-built Thank you for sharing !

Unfortunately not, I think. It would still have only one second to empty and the issue with a ball coming too early getting through would be the same, still. (Mind the lower tipper doesn't have any problem.) Also, the issue doesn't happen often, currently. Tables not being level are a much bigger issue in practice.

The red one is a reservoir module. We use these in bigger GBC layouts to even out the ball flow when there is fluctuation, e.g., due to jams or other dynamics. It can be useful to be able to adjust the output rate of such a reservoir. 1 balls per second is the minimal rate each module must be able to process and therefore the theoretical maximum throughput of a loop. This could only be reached of everything works perfectly all the time, which is not realistic. Therefore being able to set an average ball flow somewhere below 1 bps is useful. This can be done by adjusting the gray ball joint plate and have more or less balls recirculate.

@@coastropolisbrick-built thank you for the detailed response! It didn't occur to me that the "diverter" could be adjusted -- now it totally makes sense.

Well, as I said, it's debatable. I'm simply referring to the rule of having an input bin that is at least 10x10 studs wide and at most 10 bricks high. If you have something inside that 10x10 area that moves above that 10 bricks, even temporarily, you could consider it in conflict with that rule. Of course the standard doesn't go into such detail. I've also seen discussions in the GBC community of whether anything is allowed high above (like bridges having something on top of the input bin in 1.5 m height). :-) Saying that, certainly none of this is as big of an issue as not properly accepting 30 balls, if it is at all.

@@coastropolisbrick-built i see, 10x10x10 is the outer dimensions, the opening is defined by 8x8, so inside just 30 balls have ti fit

Unfortunately, I still didn't get to set up my instructions page and it will probably still be a while. I believe someone from Australia made instructions for another version based on mine linked in the pinned comment. I don't currently have a link, though.

Found it. rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-122115/Jude%20The%20Lego%20Dude/30-dunes-variant

Yes, I didn't get to this, yet, unfortunately. (Work got in the way. 🙂) Hope to be able to post a link here soon.

To someone who is about to have interview as project engineer at a company that provides conveyor and mass transport systems for all kind of industries, I appericiate the simplicity.