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Making Marble-Action Games Gadgets Maz
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Product Description
In the spirit of Rube Goldberg, pinball and bubblegum machines, this book presents 10 outlandish marble-action projects that can be constructed easily in a weekend, but when finished will baffle all who dare to dally with them.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #516985 in Books
- Published on: 2004-03-02
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 95 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Alan and Gill Bridgewater
Customer Reviews
OK for ideas, but not for projects
I was disappointed as well. I expected projects I could build, but nothing struck me as worth the time. The basic ideas are OK, marble rollers, and so on. But I would only use this stuff as a departure point for my own designs.
Making Marble-Action Games, Gadgets, Mazes & Contraptions
This book was a terrible disappointment. I wanted to give it no stars but that didn't seem to be an option. For most of these gadgets he begins the chapter by explaining that they don't actually work very well, they tend to jam and clog up requiring a certain amount of tilting and tapping to clear the device. Many of the mazes and such are non-functional - they are there to make the contraption look complicated. It's clear to me from looking at it that the dice substitute will never generate a 1, 2, or 6, and the thing is definitely not uniform like dice would be. The spirit of Rube Goldberg is represented by contraptions that do a lot but accomplish very little. The mechanisms in this book just don't do anything. I didn't find a single satisfying project in here and felt like it was a waste of twenty bucks. And what are metric conversion tables doing in here? An embarrassment if you ask me. If you like this kind of stuff get Making Wooden Mechanical Models by Alan and Gill Bridgewater. It is far superior.
Few dimensions are given.
I am used to making projects for which dimensions for the various pieces are provided. Not only does the author fail to provide dimensions but he also fails to even talk about some of the pieces that are part of a given project.
