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#24370 - 08/29/08 11:47 AM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: Austin]
Austin Member Registered: 06/25/08 Posts: 382 Loc: North Texas	Some of the other solutions are pretty neat. I don't see any that use bogy wheels.
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#24372 - 08/29/08 12:16 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: Austin]
Kriston Member Registered: 09/19/07 Posts: 3776 Loc: here! Where else? (Duh!)	Thats the same idea I'm going for, but I can't quite seem to get it to work. I get three balls in and the 4th stops on the hill at the end without going in the goal pit. So frustrating! <later...> Finally got it! I think it's kind of a funny design. But it did finally work for me. Whew! http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1050632 P.S. Please note what I named it.
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#24389 - 08/29/08 02:20 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: Kriston]
JBDad Member Registered: 04/15/08 Posts: 312 Loc: in sunny philadelphia suburbs	Oh. Didn't think about tying the wheels together off center for this one. That probably would have fixed some of my earlier prototypes that tended to get stuck... JB _________________________ Have an idea for a Gifted Resource? Visit http://gifted.uservoice.com
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#24390 - 08/29/08 02:23 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: JBDad]
Kriston Member Registered: 09/19/07 Posts: 3776 Loc: here! Where else? (Duh!)	Meh. I don't think it really helped me any. That was mostly a ghost from a past incarnation of the thing.
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#24485 - 08/30/08 05:22 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: Kriston]
JBDad Member Registered: 04/15/08 Posts: 312 Loc: in sunny philadelphia suburbs	Took me forever... http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1106893 DS loves this game too... _________________________ Have an idea for a Gifted Resource? Visit http://gifted.uservoice.com
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#24487 - 08/30/08 05:42 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: JBDad]
Kriston Member Registered: 09/19/07 Posts: 3776 Loc: here! Where else? (Duh!)	Oh, I kind of wish I hadn't looked. That's the one I'm on now! Still, great design! My DS loves this site, too. He said, "It's fun, AND it's science! Cool!" I'm thinking of working it into our homeschool curriculum by assigning him certain parameters to the ones he's already solved in other ways--like "You must use a ramp for this one" or something like that.
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#24491 - 08/30/08 06:44 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: Kriston]
JBDad Member Registered: 04/15/08 Posts: 312 Loc: in sunny philadelphia suburbs	Sorry! I should have named the level! JB _________________________ Have an idea for a Gifted Resource? Visit http://gifted.uservoice.com
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#24494 - 08/30/08 07:08 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: JBDad]
Kriston Member Registered: 09/19/07 Posts: 3776 Loc: here! Where else? (Duh!)	That's okay. I know the excitement of finally solving the one you've been slaving over and needing to share it. I'm probably just jealous.
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#24610 - 09/01/08 05:42 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: Kriston]
JBDad Member Registered: 04/15/08 Posts: 312 Loc: in sunny philadelphia suburbs	lesson learned... My awash solution which took me forever and isn't pretty. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1190030 DS's first day of school is tomorrow ... How they grow! JB _________________________ Have an idea for a Gifted Resource? Visit http://gifted.uservoice.com
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#24633 - 09/01/08 08:56 PM Re: Great site for engineering/physics fun! [Re: JBDad]
Austin Member Registered: 06/25/08 Posts: 382 Loc: North Texas	Lowlyworm! http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=1196585
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