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Oh, I totally forgot about his one. But just seeing the title the song came back to my brains ...

Oh yeah, that is great!

Well, I think this is an essential: Hi Teresa.

... and it's a german one

A very nice commercial for me. Not the product, not the company but the marble track system. Really nice stuff. I shall change from ft to wooden constructions. Thank you Steph for posting.

Nice to read Bob is back. Sorry for your trouble Bob. But if things are worst than there is only one direction left over ... ... getting better. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Nowe I havesome torublle typiongn

Hi Derek. Maybe we get you addicted to marble runs after ManofKent got lost to the marble collectors

what is it in the marble of budwas' photo? i have trouble to identify it, really. Ric: are those candies or what is it if is not glass?

who - the horse or the guy ?!?

Hi Alan.

Oh, I almost forgot this thread. Unfortunately there are not so much pictures taken from the events as I really planned to do. At Hannover's Maker Faire I forgot the recharger for the camera and its battery was almost empty from start , at Sigmaringen the light was terrible. We had to stay indoors due to the heavy rain. But at least we had fun! Lot's of people came around and were fascinated by all the constructions. The first 2 days everything went perfectly, then on the last day I had severe trouble with one lifting mechanism. Here you find some impressions - sorry for the German commenting - if any: https://www.ftcommunity.de/details.php?image_id=43490 A week later there was a playing activity in Sigmaringen "Baden-Württemberg Spielt". No time to really fix the issues from Hannover but although it works nearly the whole day with intensive care. This picture I took directly after assembly: https://www.ftcommunity.de/details.php?image_id=43692 The higher tower on the right hand side is a light house. The optic really works fine and draw additional attention to the marble run. The height of the tower is intentionally adjusted to average eye level which gives short light flashes when the lights are operated. But this has been the only obvious work spent to my projects since then - . I am still trying to fix the issues and this means lots of work to very small construction details. Maybe you want to have a look to the place where I try to give some coarse documentation on the details of the different stations and effects: https://www.ftcommunity.de/categories.php?cat_id=3146. It is a german site, just click the blue links and then you see pictures of several building blocks. I am still not ready with all material that has accumulated so check back later on. Even the outtakes will creep in from time to time ...

Hey, cool stuff. Nice ideas made with things nearly every household has somewhere. I like the track and the idea.

Great ideas. I really enjoyed watching the clips.

Very impressive. So sad that the chain lifter did not work, but I think you will return some day and fix it?

Quite a lot of marble run. I am also looking forward on the second part.

A small footprint long lasting run? The slower the balls roll the harder it is to have them not getting stuck.

Late but hopefully not too late: Happy birthday Jelle!

The solution I know to the camels problem: The wise man said: "I will borrow you one of my camels. Then we divide up and what stays left I get as a fee." The 3 sons agreed and so they did: 17 + 1 = 18 18 * 1/2 = 9 18 * 1/3 = 6 18 * 1/9 = 2 9 + 6 + 2 = 17 1 left as the fee And they lived happily ever after, even the camels. I suppose that is what Steph also found out.

And you can replace the verb "DRINK" by any other verb. The message still stays true, or?

Steph's riddle resembles me to this one: Once there was an oriental trader who passed away. His wife passed away long ago so he left 3 sons and 17 camels. In his last will he said that his three sons shall receive a share of his camels as follows: The oldest son shall get 1/2 of all the camels. The middle son shall get 1/3 of all the camels. The youngest son shall get 1/9 of all the camels. No camel shall be sold or slaughtered! It took them a long time but the 3 sons really did not find a solution for the problem. They then went to the wisest man of the village and told him about their problem. And he found a solution. No camel was sold, no camel was slaughtered, no camel was given away. The 17 camels were shared to the 3 sons in accordance to the traders last will. Do you have an idea what the solution was?

Congrats to the 75k. And the "house of marbles" has nice marbles in the presentation. Hope you bought some of them.

I also ran into the problem with a blank area on the page. Maybe " PRÉSENTATION DES JEUX " (presentation of the games) is also a place where it is hidden? The google translate is very funny and sometimes really far away from the french meaning Has someone already figured out the rules? How do the mini cyclists and the balls / marbles interact?

Yes, you are right. Meanwhile I read the makezine article and have to revert my comment a ittle bit. For a 14 year old girl this is fine work, I fully agree.