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Grither		2012-09-20 09:29:23 AM

And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Dog Welder		2012-09-20 09:31:02 AM

Wow.

Because People in power are Stupid		2012-09-20 09:40:10 AM

I don't get it.

He's shooting baskets with soccer balls. Is this even legal?

Grither		2012-09-20 09:41:03 AM

Because People in power are Stupid: I don't get it.

He's shooting baskets with soccer balls. Is this even legal?

Dude, it's called football. Not soccer. And yeah, totally legal. Unless it's handball. Then, illegal.

turboke		2012-09-20 09:50:04 AM

Been done. Too bad the video is deleted.

Parallax		2012-09-20 10:01:43 AM

He doesn't have too much free time. He just doesn't spend an hour a day on Fark.

/clearly he has not discovered Fark

Egoy3k		2012-09-20 10:12:34 AM

Grither: And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Clearly the creator of this device has just enough free time on their hands. Lego is expensive.

madgonad		2012-09-20 10:17:08 AM

Egoy3k: Grither: And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Clearly the creator of this device has just enough free time on their hands. Lego is expensive.

Yeah, I'm guessing $50k for the LEGO bricks. Maybe more. The electrical components aren't cheap and he is using a ton of them.

StrangeQ		2012-09-20 10:21:10 AM

Egoy3k: Grither: And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Clearly the creator of this device has just enough free time on their hands. Legos are is expensive.

ftfy

Gunbuster718		2012-09-20 10:27:15 AM

Needs more this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-7uLg-DZU

Agarista		2012-09-20 10:37:43 AM

I might have watched this six or seven times...

SirTanon		2012-09-20 11:23:31 AM

The part with the balls was the best.

Geeves00		2012-09-20 11:40:50 AM

First youtube comment says it all:

skill level: Asian

British		2012-09-20 12:41:31 PM

So this is what designers of car factories do on their spare time.

Barricaded Gunman		2012-09-20 01:09:52 PM

Bookmark

Embden.Meyerhof		2012-09-20 01:42:40 PM

StrangeQ: Egoy3k: Grither: And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Clearly the creator of this device has just enough free time on their hands. Legos are is expensive.

ftfy

You be trollin', right? Everyone knows it's "Lego BRICKS are expensive".

dittybopper		2012-09-20 02:32:39 PM

madgonad: Yeah, I'm guessing $50k for the LEGO bricks. Maybe more.

Maybe not. The littlebopper has a ton of LEGO bricks, only a small fraction of which we purchased new. Most of them come from garage sales, etc. I think we paid $10 for a complete mindstorm robot one time at a garage sale.

hutchkc		2012-09-20 02:38:02 PM

jagarr		2012-09-20 02:42:58 PM

huh huhhuh, i gots a ball contraption for u to be hold subby. your tarded.

/got nothin'

lordargent		2012-09-20 02:55:00 PM

spent two years building

Is that two years of accumulated work time? Or two years from start date to end date, because there is a huge ass difference.

So did he really spend two years building it, or did he build it over the course of two years.

I mean, for all we know, he spent one minute on it per day over the course of two years ... for a total of about 12 hours of actual work.

And did anyone else help him over the course of those two years, is he counting their time as time that he worked on it?

// I'm working on labor and overtime charging reports right now, can you tell :P

// damned FTE calculations

PsyLord		2012-09-20 04:00:51 PM

This again? I could've sworn that I saw this on Fark earlier this year.

LazarusLong42		2012-09-20 04:34:30 PM

lordargent: spent two years building

Is that two years of accumulated work time? Or two years from start date to end date, because there is a huge ass difference.

So did he really spend two years building it, or did he build it over the course of two years.

I mean, for all we know, he spent one minute on it per day over the course of two years ... for a total of about 12 hours of actual work.

And did anyone else help him over the course of those two years, is he counting their time as time that he worked on it?

// I'm working on labor and overtime charging reports right now, can you tell :P

// damned FTE calculations

The video indicates that total actual construction time spent was 600 hrs; it doesn't say whether there were others helping, nor does it talk about design time.

/this thing was awesome.

harlock		2012-09-20 07:32:16 PM

600 hours is a good amount of spare time for two years, but not insane. As someone who has a very time consuming hobby (building miniature live steam engines) I can relate to this.

lordargent		2012-09-20 08:58:31 PM

LazarusLong42: The video indicates that total actual construction time spent was 600 hrs

Didn't watch the video

but that works out to about 49 minutes per day.

Sim Tree		2012-09-20 10:07:34 PM

It looks so much like my Minecraft:Tekkit world it's scary.

Also, I wonder how much power that thing uses.

thatguyoverthere70		2012-09-20 10:26:18 PM

Takes a lotta balls to make something like that.

Langston		2012-09-20 11:06:59 PM

There's a question that all of us have been asked at one point or another in our lives: "What would you do if you won the lottery?"

Lots of people say they'd travel, or they'd become benefactors, set up their friends and families for life, and the more inventive of us talk about buying an island or creating an underground bunker/supervillain lair, maybe something of the hollowed-out volcano variety, but it seems a lot of it seems ridiculously grandiose.

I'm simpler than that. I'd do this. Maybe more elaborate, to the point of being suspected of mental illness, but if I had the money and all the time in the world, I'd do exactly this. Create elaborate, magnificent, remarkable edifices of motion, of functional singlemindedness, half a million pieces humming and buzzing and spiraling and clicking with the sole goal of conveying little plastic balls through an endless journey that's simultaneously pointless and glorious.

Oh, and two chicks at the same time.

suburbanguy		2012-09-21 01:51:21 PM

Embden.Meyerhof: StrangeQ: Egoy3k: Grither: And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Clearly the creator of this device has just enough free time on their hands. Legos are is expensive.

ftfy

You be trollin', right? Everyone knows it's "Lego BRICKS are expensive".

...which are called Legos....

BTing		2012-09-21 01:56:39 PM

I had $20 on red and seven minutes later it is a push. A PUSH!!!

just_another_asshole/jaa		2012-09-21 06:15:43 PM

suburbanguy: Embden.Meyerhof: StrangeQ: Egoy3k: Grither: And I thought that XKCD guy had too much time on his hands....

Clearly the creator of this device has just enough free time on their hands. Legos are is expensive.

ftfy

You be trollin', right? Everyone knows it's "Lego BRICKS are expensive".

...which are called Legos....

Actually it is LEGO s!
Each letter is always capitalized!!
It is their trademark!!!

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