{"id":95,"date":"2006-08-05T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2006-08-05T22:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T02:22:45","slug":"the-blue-ball-production-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/05\/the-blue-ball-production-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Ball Production Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/trick\/bb2.JPG\" \/>It&#8217;s course preparation time again.  For those of you teaching production or scheduling, if you are looking for a graphic to show the need for split-second planning in certain production processes, I highly recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/blueballfixed.ytmnd.com\/\">Blue Ball Machine<\/a>.  Hypnotic!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.08\/start.html?pg=13\">Wired Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Rube Goldberg machine made of animated tiles, with hundreds of blue balls moving in time to music from <cite>Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/cite>.<br \/>\n<strong>Max [of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ytmnd.com\">http:\/\/www.ytmnd.com<\/a>]says:<\/strong> This is our most viewed title ever. It was created by the Web site Something Awful \u2013 they had 100 people make 1-inch tiles, and the only rule was that a ball had to enter at a certain place and exit at another. It came out awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s course preparation time again. For those of you teaching production or scheduling, if you are looking for a graphic to show the need for split-second planning in certain production processes, I highly recommend the Blue Ball Machine. Hypnotic! From Wired Magazine: A Rube Goldberg machine made of animated tiles, with hundreds of blue balls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/05\/the-blue-ball-production-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Blue Ball Production Problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}