Overhead View Figure 2

Figure 2

Here is a birds eye view of Mousetrap showing all of the major external components. The 'Mechanical Man' has just started to turn the 'Windlass'.

A few statistics:
11 motors in all are used.
25 limit switches used to control movements
50 matched marbles are rotated in use.

Next picture: Coolie at work (fig 3).

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