Tinkering with a LEGO Great Ball Contraption

LEGO is a great work out for the mind, because with over 20k+ pieces to choose from the possibilities are only limited by your time and imagination. And sometimes I build things with form and function and other times I build things that have none.

Such is the concepts of a LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC). It's function is to simply move a ball through the machine, time and time again. But a well built LEGO GBC module also offers visual appeal as well as ingenious design. It's the ultimate test for a LEGO Technics builder.

Some liken LEGO GBC to a Rube Goldberg Machine but it is far from that as the Rube Goldberg machine is truly a pointless device.

Now I'm fairly new at these types of LEGO builds but I really appreciate the mechanics that go into building one of these contraptions.

Here's my second LEGO GBC module, it's called a GBC mini-loop, and I hope to make a few more in the future.

I know it's pointless, but at the same time interesting to watch. And when you add a few of these modules together you truly have something awe inspiring.

But I'm still getting there.

For me it's about allocating time to a bigger LEGO project, but fear and self-doubt kicks in and suggests it'll be a complete waste of time, especially if I can't get it to work.

Plus, I have the attention span of a 2-year-old, and bigger projects rarely get completed anyway, so then there's that.

And it doesn't help that my YouTube videos lately have around a 2-day promotion period and then the YouTube algorithm puts my work on slow down and is just a crawl from there. Sooooo frustrating and it values my work at about $2 which makes it hard to get up and go again.

I'm still trying to crack this exiting the rat race thing without having to sell your soul, to the highest bidder but I'll keep trying to work it out for as long as a can.

Now I know there isn't much of a LEGO audience here on YouTube, but if you watched the video and thought it was 'OK' then please share with some friends that have kids as it'll help me a lot.

Cheers