How I Designed the Mechanical Ping Pong Sculpture
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
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Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong"
This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating flair, but not very much actually getting accomplished.
It is a kinetic sculpture made up of many moving parts. The pingpong balls are lifted with a 12 way geneva mechanism, which is timed to drop a ball into the launcher scoop every 10 seconds. This is coupled to the archimedes spiral cam via a chain and sprocket, which charges the plunger mechanism with elastic potential energy. At the end of the cam, the plunger is released, popping the ball into the air for a brief moment of excellence, before making its way back into the queue, only to do it again.
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I love the power cord on/off switch idea! Such a clean design.
ditto
same...i think it's my favorite thing about the whole sculpture.
This is one of those simple inventions that I just cannot understand why this not a standard thing, and why have I have not seen this anywhere before?!?
I was coming here to say that
Thanks! It was suggested to me on a previous project- agreed such a clean way to implement the switch.
I wonder how small you could make the funnel, a swish straight into the track would be so satisfying 😍
probably not too difficult unless the room has opening doors, windows, or vents.
@@elitelavamage yes, it's much better to leave that style to marble or ball bearing runs.
The problem is that ping pong balls are not uniform. The equatorial seam can change how the ball bounces.
Congrats on successfully completing such a massively dope project! 👊🏼
Thanks my brother 🤘🤘
*Dope = stupid person.* - Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Your full length videos are 1000x better than shorts. Keep them up!
I plan to!
this is fantastic man!! you're really articulate and the way you explain things comes across as naturally charismatic. people would watch you explain the stuff you did in cad if you ever thought going down the tutorials route
Thanks Peter, maybe one day!
I think an awesome version of this would be if you used a clock mechanism to move everything utilising the minute hand and having 12 balls so every hour the ball will shoot into the hoop and a ball representing the current hour drops into the ball launcher. I think it'd be the coolest clock ever and the way you have designed it would be perfect just change the motor with a clock mech and design something that slipped into the minute hand part of the mech and connected to the rotating assembly or a stepper motor and arduino board if a clock mech hasn't got enough torque to turn the rotating assembly
Great, you've done the easy and fun part of the next video for him!
@stevecarter8810 he still hasn't made it so I don't think he liked the idea to much, I think it'd be a great convo starter
this is so cool! i was actually browsing for a semester project and came across this! gave me some great ideas to move forward with, thank you!
Amazing! Happy to inspire 🙏
Awesome! I just realized you did longer format videos and I'm so glad you do! Ive always been wanting engineering type videos where it's more of a tag along. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks! Will do :)
The 3D printed chain is so satisfying to watch
Agreed!
Besides all the mechanics and techniques applied, the overall aesthetic is pretty solid with the design process, can't wait to see more of your designs!
Thanks Leo!
I’ll be watching this again with my son as a great lesson on design and engineering-thanks!
Awesome! Thanks James
Very cool project. Its great to see the process from start to finish, idea to final execution and the hurdles in between. You're totally right: bringing ideas to life is the tedious hard part
Worth it to persevere though eh!
Beautifully executed. All that planning and testing worked out wonderfully.
BTW: Taking breaks when the mind tires of a focused subject is quite normal. I was taught in design school that if you ever find yourself stuck, then just do something, anything, even looking around or reading helps to get the mind flowing again. Forcing it to continue focus upon a stressed-out subject is not usually productive. Plus, as you said, your 'toying around' was useful for the main project, as well as likely helped your mind to relax.
Thanks Aaron, definitely agree with the importance of breaks!
While I'm late to this video, this type of video and explaining the process of designing and refining is both fascinating and super helpful!
Thanks for releasing it!
Thanks for watching!
This is all excellent and a truly fun and great project, but your on-off switch is truly inspired. I love it all, but especially that. Thank you.
I also was super impressed with the on-off switch - great lateral thinking and so "obvious" after someone else has shown you, but not obvious beforehand.
Thanks Kyle!
Super cool project, love the format J. Well done!👌
Thank you!! 👊👊👊
Your ideas are amazing. Everything you build is freaking awesome!
Thats so damn cool!! It's an inspiration for me to keep printing. I've been working with resin for a little over a year, and I'm seeing some really awesome results, and now the sky's the limit!!
The stars even?!
Love it! Just subscribed. Can't wait to see what you do next.
you're energy is so relatable! Loved the video
Thanks Zoey!!
Awesome 👏. It’s so cool and satisfying.
The background looks great to, it’s the attention to details that makes the difference.
Thank you!!
I absolutely love your videos! You are a WAY underrated channel and I can't believe you don't have more subs than you do. As a mechatronics engineering student I love to see your design and iterative process. A lot of engineering channels dint give the full picture of how these things evolve and it's really cool to see! I wish I could sit down with you and pick your brain, but keep up the amazing work! One of my top favorite channels on UA-cam!
Thanks so much! Happy you find value in my content- more and better coming in the future. Cheers :)
Such an amazing work, really appreciate it. It looks so cool, and that too stuck to the wall makes it kind of alive showpiece. Great work 👍👍
Thanks Jayendra- exactly my intentions!
Wonderful video. So glad put this together for us. This is my favorite………….so far😊 Congratulations 🍾
Thanks John! My fav so far as well 🙏
Really nice design!
Great work man! Cool to see how it all came together, plus the side quests XD
Thanks brother 👊👊 especially the side quests!
Yes, the side quests are just as cool and interesting! (Also glad I'm not the only one who in the middle of a project follows some tangent and ends up doing/making something else. Lol. The trick is in making sure the side quests relate or feed back into the thing you started to begin with. My pile of partial projects will prove I struggle with this, 😂)
This looks awesome!
Is this available yet to print?
Would love to make one!
Amazing work, would be cool if you could have 2 of these set up in a way, where it could act as a clock. One row of ping-pongs for the minutes, and other for hours. Really like this design 😃
Love it! Fantastic design! 😍
Thanks my man!
Love it! Totally up my alley ❤
Thank you!
This is awesome! Such a great video!
Thanks Clement 👊👊
Even your "procrastination" is productive. Damn! All three mechanisms look dope!
Haha not all of it! Thank you!
Brilliant work!
Thanks Travis 👊👊👊
It’s beautiful!!! Have u ever thought about having a primarily “visual artist” to collaborate with and help design or paint your objects? Not that they aren’t incredible on their own, just that it would be interesting to see!
There will definitely be more collabs like that in the future!
Love these videos man keep it up!
Thanks Jake 👊👊
Well done! Thanks for sharing the whole process!
Thanks Sam!
Amazing thing you just made
I appreciate it 🙏
This video just showed up on my feed, Thumbnail caught my attention.
Excellent video! Great application of art, technology, and engineering.
Well done 👍
Thanks for clicking Trevor! Cheers 😀
You're making such an art
Very cool, well done, sir.
Thanks my man!
Nice design process and the product looks great!
Thanks! Much appreciated
Great video and great execution! Love it.
Thank you!
would love to see this one available for purchase I just want to fill a whole wall with the cool things like this and have already earmarked a few off your site. very cool work
This is beautiful!
Thanks Michael!
Brilliant, I love it and thank you for sharing.
Thank you!!
So great!!
Dude you're so awesome, idk how you don't have a lot of subscribers. You gonna make it soon💯🙌
Thanks Johann!
Really well done!
Thanks Billy 👊👊
It's amazing. I would definitely be cranking up the speed to see how fast it could go.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoy the aesthetics and the action but you explain your logic too and that's like fun learning 👍
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed
Love your build process and how you show it to people. Found you through havkaday, and now I'm subbed
Thanks for the sub! Enjoy :)
Great work!
Thank you!!
Nice job man!
Thank you!!
Must be nice to have the mechanical genius to create such contraptions. Very cool creation!
Thanks! Comes from lots of years of practice!
Man, you are a genius. Rarely have I seen so much professionalism applied to utter uselessness. Chapeau!
Holy shit, thats actually mad awesome and satisfying to watch 🔥🔥🔥
😎🤓😎🤓😎🤓
I love this! Very good job brother! Keep going
Thanks! Will do!
This is very cool content. Love it!
Thanks Daniel!
Excellent project.
Thank you 👊👊
Quality - Liked and subscribed!!
Thanks Ashley!
Give this man some views sheeeesh! Very pleasing object you made there
Thanks Richard 👊
I would love to see a full wall rube goldberg machine done by you. This idea was great and executed very well. Nice job and great video.
Love that idea! I can definitely make that happen
I imagined trying something like this last year during lockdown. This looks great!
Thanks! Give it a shot :)
I hope you sell heaps of them so that one day, in some corporate waiting room, I can actually see it in action!
Really good!
Thanks David!
Amazing, lots to learn from it!!👌✨♥️
Thank you! Cheers!
Great project! Go Leafs Go!!!
Thanks Steve! Go Leafs Go 🙌🙌🙌
I m going to make a similar one for my kido, great work
Dope Switch!!
Thanks Chris! It was actually suggested in the comments from the ‘accidental sculpture’ short! Shoutout to that guy 🙌
*No need to say “what’s up everyone.”* Otherwise, fabulous and amazing. Thanks for sharing!
That power cord switch was sexy! I'm going to steal that idea for whatever dumb thing I'm going to build :D
I 100% back that!
Super duper cool
Great idea!
Watching the device work I imagined another use for the concept.
you could make a clock out of this mechanism.
the ball sitting in the catapult could tell the hour and the cam point at the minutes. Rotate the cam once every 60 minutes and you have a clock that shoots the hours as they pass.
Amazing!!!
Thanks!!
Awesome!
🙏🙏
love sculpture.
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I searched a YT video like this since a life😅. I m mech engineer and getting on a similar project and u have been ispirational. Thank s
Best of luck!
Love it - I subscribed - defiantly use balls that glow under a black light - and make sure the white material (tracks and other mechanical devices) are iridescent and pick up heat to glow in the dark when subjected to light!
Love it.
🙏🙏🙏
Amazing 🤩🤩🤩!!
Thanks Sandra!!
I've never heard the term "fail fast mentality," but I'm using that from now on
Absolut amazing.
Thanks Freddy!
would love to see this running continuously in another vid
💥🥳
I wish you success for you.
Thank you!
Pretty cool that I'm here before 1m subscribers. Keep up the content
🙌🙌🤘🤘 will do
nice i like that and thanks sir for sharing awesome project
Thank you!
Really cool... The overall look reminds me of a machine you might find in a Dr. Seuss story. And... I mean that as a compliment!
I definitely take it as a compliment! Love dr seuss! Thank you 🙏
At least you managed to come back to the main quest. My main hobby quest is over a year old now, and my side quests also get side quests of their own. Somehow what started as a 3D printing project with some electronics, became chemistry which has neither plastic or electronics. And dangerously close to becoming metallurgy.
Very cool
Thanks Jake!
Awesome project man. Ive been messing around with arduino a lot, need to do a mechanism based project and up the mechanism game!
Thanks Danny! Lots of fun when you get things working. Good luck 🙌
I love your design and the different mechanical principles you have show cased with it. Out of curiousity - how many meters of PLA has it taken to print?
Thanks Finn, not exactly sure how much filament was used, but it was in the ballpark of a whole bunch
디자인도 정말 좋고 독특한 기계네요. 덕분에 영상 재미있게 봤습니다.👏👍🤗
Smooth design! Solid works for the win. I’m curious if there would be a way to refine the slope angles in the funnel to try and get the ball to cleanly and almost silently fall straight into the tube like a 3 point swoosh. Then you don’t have much of the bouncing around noise. That would step it up to almost a zen kind of machine.
Definitely! Would require some iteration and some perfect springs
BRAVO
Thanks Rebecca!
Strong Animusic/"Pipe Dream" vibes from this sculpture! Make it musical!
I wish I could purchase the STL and make one for my living room decoration, It looks so satisfying 😍🙏
They may come available in the future!
@@Engineezy looking forward to purchase it
Imagine all of the kinetic sculptures at the same time. Maybe it would sound like a room full of clocks?
Power cable as switch was a pretty good idea!
Thanks! I can’t take full credit for it though, it was a suggestion from a previous video that I had to implement!
Legend
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sidequests 😂 this is sick dude. get it spray painted as like a dragons mouth 😁
Side quests are key!