{"id":375,"date":"2009-08-23T03:56:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T07:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-08-23T03:56:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T07:56:29","slug":"found-lego-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/2009\/08\/23\/found-lego-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"found LEGO ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>device is a ring about 18-20 inches in diameter, perhaps 12-14 inches tall.\u00a0 wide enough to mate with and fit over an average bucket.\u00a0 so, you place the ring over a good sized bucket.\u00a0 lets say vanilla 5-gallon.\u00a0 to the side, you place the receiving bin.\u00a0 on the rings key pad, you punch in the 4-digit code for the model you want to re-build, and hit the 2&#215;4 &#8220;POUR&#8221; stud.\u00a0 the device has fans.\u00a0 they spin up, then fast, then settle into a low hum b-flat vibrate against the bucket.<\/p>\n<p>the pour begins.\u00a0 LEGO of all sizes and circa are poured en masse directly into &amp; thru the ring.\u00a0 hundreds of spielbergian jungle peices and bounty hunter bits from the outer rim territories all fall through the ring.\u00a0 pops &amp; snaps of the blowers compete with the rattle &amp; din of bricks hitting bottom bucket &amp; filling.\u00a0 with the chaos of a trickling faucet, your side-bin slowly starts to fill with the shapes &amp; colours called for by the original instructions.<\/p>\n<p>the ring is fitted with a high-speed camera capable of 1000&#8217;s of frames per second.\u00a0 based on the 4-digit code entered, the camera knows which peices to look for and which to let pass.\u00a0 those from the LEGO manifest are identified by the camera &amp; immediately blown into the side-chute recepticals by a concentrated blasts of air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>device is a ring about 18-20 inches in diameter, perhaps 12-14 inches tall.\u00a0 wide enough to mate with and fit over an average bucket.\u00a0 so, you place the ring over a good sized bucket.\u00a0 lets say vanilla 5-gallon.\u00a0 to the side, you place the receiving bin.\u00a0 on the rings key pad, you punch in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/2009\/08\/23\/found-lego-ring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">found LEGO ring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[73,107,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}