The gravity well research on gravitational physics made me laugh. We all start out with good intentions on hardcore research and end up with, 'yep, that looks good'.....
@@feelfree.1 Is that formula based on some kind of gravity well analogue, or is it a known-working shape or something? Edit: I just looked it up and there's a study called "trajectories of rolling marbles on various funnels" by Anita Mareno and Lars English that describes the typical coin funnel as hyperbolic, so I guess it's a known working shape. Sounds like it would be pretty simple like you say.
It's funnier because if you were making a coin gravity well you do have to have an exact shape to keep the coin rolling on its edge, and even then it only works for a small range of coin sizes. It's not critical for spheres, though, so this is more a nod to those who have done the hard work to make coin wells work.
@@excrubulent it's literally the shape of the gravitational potential caused by a point mass (V = -c/r) where c (= Gm) is a positive constant. And It is also the potential caused by a spherical mass distribution outside of itself
Now spend 7 years to improve the design and play custom music, then make it play the bass, vibraphone, drums, cymbal and make it human powered, then go on a world tour with it
This comment reminds me of a game I had as a kid (and have bought again as an adult: Cascade. transitionconsciousness.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/cascade-by-matchbox-design-genius-or-eccentric-lunacy/
I have a few cubic feet of plastic debris saved up from the past 6 years of prints, and someday, SOMEDAY, I will surely buy or build a recycler. Someday, surely.
@@Engineezy If you live in America, you can send your things to this place in St. Louis called Printerior that recycles your waste for completely free! I’m planning on doing it soon, so maybe you could try it and see what the results are.
So you know these ocean drums? It’s a type of percussion instrument that mimics the sound of the sea. It is a circular frame drum with filled with small beads. When the drum is tilted back and forth, these beads roll over the bottom head, creating a sound similar to waves crashing on a beach. This could really be a fun project for thousands of tiny ball bearings. Getting an interesting mechanism that can lift different sides of the drum. Playing around with overlaying oscillations to check out the visual movement and the resulting sound of the beads. Maybe capturing the essence of the mesmerising movement of the strand beasts and the calm ocean currents.
The white noise of the machine is deadening and taming down the input to the brain, which filters out things it experiences consistently for the most part. Otherwise you would feel every hair on your body....as they grew.... There is app Ive used a few times that seems to just play a tone at the tinnitus frequency you perceive, and its worked on some level to deaden it. Basically I assume it sort of 'overworks' your brain to the sound so as the brain compensates it becomes less pronounced, like if you were to use a green/blue light in a room for some time then go out into a white lit room it would look very redish because your green and blue cones have been working but not the red ones ergo the reds are primed to sense light where as the blue green ones need to even back out both in their chemically driven photon to nerve impulse sensing and perceived sensation in the brain. Brains are weird. For the tinnitus anyways, I imagine a tone generator would have the same effect. Havent tried it yet though....
Hey man, you're really inspirational. I feel pretty discouraged from trying to make things because it feels like I don't know how or wouldn't be able to figure it out. But watching you just problem solve and makes stuff work makes that process seem more doable. I appreciate that a lot.
My struggle is my perfectionism and intense desire to do things "the correct way". Sure, my solutions often have significant longevity, but complete implementation is my struggle as I often fail to get to the end. To JBV's point, "it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get there". Too often I let perfection be the enemy of good enough.
This reminds me of how much I Loved those Penny machines in certain stores when I was a kid in the early 90's. You'd launch a penny down a ramp and the penny would roll on it's thin edge all the way down this gravity well shaped object. It's so fun I wish they would come back!
In engineering class at high school and it’s actually so fun getting to learn to use solidworks in a 3 year course for engineering for completely free with electives, and it’s super cool seeing recreational use of solidworks
It was certainly interesting to see, and well done. I think I'm not persuaded that many balls in a gravity well is more captivating than one or a few though. Half a dozen of different sizes could be quite interesting.
I use some inductive sensors on a pinball machine project to replace the mechanical rollover sensors. I think a really neat project would be to install 10 of them (assigned 0 thru 9) on your gravity well and use it as a random number generator. As a ball rolled over a specific inductive sensor, the assigned value of that sensor would be appended to a string of numbers. You could generate a 1000 digit random number is just a few seconds. If the sensors were place in the lower 2/3's of the gravity well, the balls would circle the center 2 or 3 times before encountering the sensors giving them plenty of opportunity to be bounced around by other balls.
Jay, it’s always so awesome to see you. Know you pretty well all these years and know that Jay is never satisfied and will be making me laugh cause here it comes, he is going to make a change. So very happy for you, as you continue to grow expand and able to show your brilliance in fun ways. I always learn a little something but most of all your knowledge in this field is amazing. Always look forward to seeing what you do next. Thanks from your biggest fan. Smiled 😊the other day, came across you daisy wedding key chain. Been a minute huh? Only the best to you both.
Just a suggestion, for flat belts you should try using a convex shaped roller/pulley rather a concave one 5:25 it will help center the belt believe it or not 👍🏼 With all the gravitational study though I’m surprised it didn’t turn into a worm hole haha 😂 keep up the great videos 👌🏼
My favorite, most satisfying thing, about this video was that the slom-mo sound was *real*. Not some Mark Rober "add something in post to make it sound neat" bs. No. It was the real deal.
This is a true case of “more is better”. Such an amazing and satisfying thing to watch. I also enjoying hearing you describe/summarize your process as you were making this. Your motivation was also the best motivation to me. Thank!
Nice job; now try creating machines working with glass balls, they are not perfect in sizes and it'll have some cool challenges to tackle AND i think a more satisfying sound
For the tiny balls you should make a ball bearing "wave pool" using one of your mechanical wave designs to manipulate a thousands of the B.B.s hopefully making them look like a low particle fluid simulation.
I bought that gravity well stl from you and I took the well and cut it up into 8 pizza like slices and increased their size by 250 - 300 some percent. Filling up my printer bed as large as I could each piece, then connected them together with crazy glue. No need for sanding as they came out smooth and level by printing on their side.
That's pretty cool. When the balls go around the well they form what look like statically-rotating patterns - The position of the balls relative to each other is more constant than I would have thought.
Your best results on the center of the well would be to make it an aperture that can fit 7 balls at a time. Essentially a perfect hexagon of balls. One in the middle, six around it. That means, no matter the rate you drop them into the well, it should never get stuck or slow down. A slightly steeper beginning incline from the outer edge, as well as having the wall meet the incline being rounded at the same curvature as the balls, would make for a slightly smoother and earlier descent into the well. It's like merging on a highway, you need the balls already on the track to get out of the way of those coming on. They'll bunch up less and have a much smoother trajectory into the well at the center.
I want to see it printed in the blackest of blacks and have different sized balls in different colours. It is a really lovely cool shiny and amazing project.
Towards the end watching this, I'm thinking " _Now try it with the 1/2" AND 1/4" ball bearings at the same time_ " Background: Back in my childhood, I used to build what i called "marble coasters" out of _Hot Wheels_ tracks and whatever random stuff I could prop them on around my bedroom furniture. Not having access to large quantities of uniform-sized marbles or ball bearings, my payload developed into a mishmash of regular marbles, shooter marbles, steel balls of varying sizes, BB's and even a few plastic and wooden beads. The idea was to cram the entire collection through this contraption as quickly as possible (not really as they all had to be hand-placed at the top-of-track), and _all_ the balls regardless of size/weight had to make it to the end. Tuning was necessary to ensure the lighter balls didn't stall out (though they'd get pushed along by heavier ones), and the shooter marbles + larger steel balls didn't gain enough speed to dive off the track. I would have _loved_ to have had the means to build a conveyor to get marbles from the bottom to the top. The wildly varying ball sizes/weights would no doubt become its own challenge for that.
Another idea - auto-pachinko. Feed into a horizontally sliding chute at the top of the machine that will deposit the BBs into the pin-field. Rig it so that once the middle catch area fills all the BBs are drained from the field and recycled. Potential for pinball style lighting here if you give the pins a metal ring around their bases so that the BB completes the circuit for a light. Other possible inclusions - rotating sections of the pin field, automatic pinball flippers, archemedes screw lifts running up both sides of the play feild so you can watch the BBs get raised back to the tank at the top.
I would like a video about a machine that can tell you exactly how much energy is needed to push any object. Just an idea you dont have to if u dont want to.
The tiny balls are so much more chaotic and indeed answer one flaw/question that I had regarding the gap when the scoop is overturned. Many balls just dont fall in the hopper! So make a short with some fix for it maybe lol. Anyway can we say a marble version for this? I'm sure so many marble run channels will be thrilled to have this and include it in their runs!
Yeah, the small ball were an afterthought, I think with a slightly different scoop design, it would quickly solve the problem! I think it would already work with marbles if they are the right size!
Saw your strandbeest short, went to your channel hoping you had longform content... I couldn't have been luckier. Bingewatched like 10 videos. I love your content, especially also because you include the whole process and any fails / learning experiences. Thank you for the cool videos!
You had me at “gumball machine”! Very satisfying! I imagine those bearings would rip up those 3d printed parts pretty fast. Thanks for sharing your creative adventures!
My only experience with a gravity well was for some large donation container I saw as a kid. I think it was even designed to drop 2 quarters at once, maybe 4 (2 on opposite ends). Once I understood to use the ramps instead of trying to roll them by hand, I was mesmerized and wanted to do more. Maybe try to do a distribution setup for coins and give that a try?
You didn't mention at all the lower ball-catcher tray on the back of the machine as seen at 9:18. It appears to be an attempt to catch balls that bounce out of the upper tray, with a return chute to the bottom catch tray at the front. Not sure if you intentionally or accidentally left out discussing that part, but would have been interesting to hear your take on that part of the machine.
Amazing stuff! I have a similar design for a conveyor but was going to tear up an old tarp. The gumball machine rotary to slowly feed them out is genius.
Awesome video thanks for sharing! Definitely the most satisfying thing I’ve seen today! I like how the smallest balls sounded like a rain storm. A rain machine would be cool for the tiny balls but that seems way too simple for your mad skills. I’m sure you’ll come up with something awesome and I can’t wait to see it!
i was very unsatisfied today because i did not recieve my order and the customer service kept lying about when ill get the refund but this vid made my day with a little bit of science
The gravity well research on gravitational physics made me laugh. We all start out with good intentions on hardcore research and end up with, 'yep, that looks good'.....
Hahaha exactly that!
It is not that complicated, one could just use the function h(r) = 1/r for the height at a certain radius, and then revolve this sketch.
@@feelfree.1 Is that formula based on some kind of gravity well analogue, or is it a known-working shape or something?
Edit: I just looked it up and there's a study called "trajectories of rolling marbles on various funnels" by Anita Mareno and Lars English that describes the typical coin funnel as hyperbolic, so I guess it's a known working shape. Sounds like it would be pretty simple like you say.
It's funnier because if you were making a coin gravity well you do have to have an exact shape to keep the coin rolling on its edge, and even then it only works for a small range of coin sizes. It's not critical for spheres, though, so this is more a nod to those who have done the hard work to make coin wells work.
@@excrubulent
it's literally the shape of the gravitational potential caused by a point mass (V = -c/r) where c (= Gm) is a positive constant. And It is also the potential caused by a spherical mass distribution outside of itself
Sweet!
Ho your you tube channel is nice
Finally found the comment I was looking for
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This has made my day, thanks legend.
Just as I was about to comment: "Martin from Wintergatan needs to see this" XD
Now spend 7 years to improve the design and play custom music, then make it play the bass, vibraphone, drums, cymbal and make it human powered, then go on a world tour with it
I wonder if anyone has ever done that 🤭
then throw it away and start over.@@Engineezy
Is this wintergarten? It sounds like that’s what your referencing here
@@simpli_A Close! It’s Wintergatan!
This comment reminds me of a game I had as a kid (and have bought again as an adult: Cascade. transitionconsciousness.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/cascade-by-matchbox-design-genius-or-eccentric-lunacy/
"I swear I'll get a 3d print recycler" must be the mantra of every 3d printer enthusiast
This is probably true!
i confirm.
I have a few cubic feet of plastic debris saved up from the past 6 years of prints, and someday, SOMEDAY, I will surely buy or build a recycler. Someday, surely.
@@Engineezy If you live in America, you can send your things to this place in St. Louis called Printerior that recycles your waste for completely free! I’m planning on doing it soon, so maybe you could try it and see what the results are.
I'm just waiting for a cheap solution
So you know these ocean drums? It’s a type of percussion instrument that mimics the sound of the sea. It is a circular frame drum with filled with small beads. When the drum is tilted back and forth, these beads roll over the bottom head, creating a sound similar to waves crashing on a beach.
This could really be a fun project for thousands of tiny ball bearings. Getting an interesting mechanism that can lift different sides of the drum. Playing around with overlaying oscillations to check out the visual movement and the resulting sound of the beads.
Maybe capturing the essence of the mesmerising movement of the strand beasts and the calm ocean currents.
Love it! Gonna have to do some research on these drums
Wait, I have one of those - they're actually called Ocean Drums? :D
JBV Creative is becoming more and more like Wintergatan with the amount of marbles in a video!
Just need to start making music 🎤
Wintergatan meets Mark Rober. I could think of worse mashups.
But will it go on for yearrrrssss?
Not to mention the number of marbles on the floor!
I do hope so!
Now do an 1 hour video of just the machine running.
actually tho please
Not possible. He will run out of balls pretty quickly cause there is a lot of escaped onces)
Or even a 5-minute one would be *great.
But seriously though, we definitely need this video to exist.
Suggestion: a marble machine that plays tight and programmable music, can't be that complicated can it? 😅
kid named Wintergatan
Definitely been done! But never hurts to do it again 😀
@@Nightshade-Aurora love that song since it came out
The noise helped suppress my tinnitus problem. Thank-you!
So the machine does have a purpose 👌 take that haterzzz
@@Engineezy you should patent it as a medical device and sell it under the brand name "Balls of Steel Tinnitus Masker"
BRRRRRRATATATATA BE GONE HATERS, YOU SUCK!@@Engineezy
The white noise of the machine is deadening and taming down the input to the brain, which filters out things it experiences consistently for the most part. Otherwise you would feel every hair on your body....as they grew.... There is app Ive used a few times that seems to just play a tone at the tinnitus frequency you perceive, and its worked on some level to deaden it. Basically I assume it sort of 'overworks' your brain to the sound so as the brain compensates it becomes less pronounced, like if you were to use a green/blue light in a room for some time then go out into a white lit room it would look very redish because your green and blue cones have been working but not the red ones ergo the reds are primed to sense light where as the blue green ones need to even back out both in their chemically driven photon to nerve impulse sensing and perceived sensation in the brain.
Brains are weird.
For the tinnitus anyways, I imagine a tone generator would have the same effect. Havent tried it yet though....
Hey man, you're really inspirational. I feel pretty discouraged from trying to make things because it feels like I don't know how or wouldn't be able to figure it out. But watching you just problem solve and makes stuff work makes that process seem more doable. I appreciate that a lot.
Glad it inspires! One of the main reasons I make these vids
My struggle is my perfectionism and intense desire to do things "the correct way". Sure, my solutions often have significant longevity, but complete implementation is my struggle as I often fail to get to the end. To JBV's point, "it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get there". Too often I let perfection be the enemy of good enough.
As always, I love watching the problem solving aspect of your designs. Plus the final design is SO satisfying.
Thank you very much! I have to agree :)
Those ball bearings jumping out of the gravity well and bucket train and escaping are the ones truly thinking outside the gravity well.
"Highly engineered ball distribution system" is just like tinder
This is not untrue 😅
😂😂😂
“It doesn’t matter how you get there, just if you get there.” Well said.
Words to live by 🤓
Pretty sure it matters if you're trying to get to a cure for cancer...but murder 50 million people to do it.
first 3d channel actually acknowledging plastic waste. well done
That's fantastic. Imagine having this in your garden where you'd otherwise have a fountain or birdbath.
The most epic/noisy garden 🤣
You have demonstrated some really neat particle physics of matter falling into a black hole. Ejection is a real thing.
There is a genius physicist watching this right now and his brain just exploded.
Oh dear 🫢
love that flexible conduit design!
Thanks! Worked better than I expected
0:16 yea good luck with that. I just watched a video where a seal says "wa". 10/10
I like when they say Egg
I love when you automated the balls
🙏🙏
Trupen!! I didn't expect you here but it all makes sense
What is a Factorio channel doing here??
No matter where I go, I keep seeing Factorio content creators. 😅
This reminds me of how much I Loved those Penny machines in certain stores when I was a kid in the early 90's. You'd launch a penny down a ramp and the penny would roll on it's thin edge all the way down this gravity well shaped object. It's so fun I wish they would come back!
Those were the best!
The plate should be reworked for the small balls so that they spin really long and fast on the inside. The last ball went down quite quickly (9:52).
Definitely doable!
Who DOESN'T love these things? So many objects spinning around at once really made it feel a lot more gravity-well-like!
I think you are better of sending your print waste to someone like Recyclingfabrik, who are pros at turning printed parts back into filament.
Hypothesis confirmed, VERY satisfying 😊
Glad you think so!
Perfect representation of the chaos of the universe and the gaping void waiting to swallow us all
Thats deep.
idea: make it waterproof and instead of marbles, use water because a water molecule is basically a .2 nanometer marble
7:45 he killed the enderdragon
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Your shop is the star of this vid.
Cant wait to see this when i get out if school!
its epic btw
🙌
Excellent work as always... the only thing that surpasses it is the entertainment value of the video!
Really appreciate that!
please coat the gravity well in silicone so there is constant friction on the marbles
Might make for an interesting result!
The way the balls moved I would have thought it was an animation! Sweet project Jay!
Thanks Q!!
I think it would have been more satisfyingly if it had released them at more regular intervals. Like from a screw drive.
I can't help but smile when I watch your videos.😃😃😃
2:55 for this you get a like xD
🤣👊
Not going to lie, my favorite part of this video is watching the balls bounce off the hopper in front of them as they get dumped.
Yes! I thought the same!
5:41 what was that 😂
That's the exact moment I started losing my marbles...
@@Engineezy puns
What is the song?
What I liked it
@amitkeren7771 ill look but most UA-camrs use walk through the park and this I don't know soooo I'll get back. It's extra fries
In engineering class at high school and it’s actually so fun getting to learn to use solidworks in a 3 year course for engineering for completely free with electives, and it’s super cool seeing recreational use of solidworks
01:28 me every time I feel a smooth-rough surface that gives that tingling sensation
haha always gotta use the face test
It was certainly interesting to see, and well done. I think I'm not persuaded that many balls in a gravity well is more captivating than one or a few though. Half a dozen of different sizes could be quite interesting.
Definitely need to try the different sizes!
7:21 If u came to see the machine
I love that you use the back of the scoop as the ramp for the bearings.
I use some inductive sensors on a pinball machine project to replace the mechanical rollover sensors. I think a really neat project would be to install 10 of them (assigned 0 thru 9) on your gravity well and use it as a random number generator. As a ball rolled over a specific inductive sensor, the assigned value of that sensor would be appended to a string of numbers. You could generate a 1000 digit random number is just a few seconds. If the sensors were place in the lower 2/3's of the gravity well, the balls would circle the center 2 or 3 times before encountering the sensors giving them plenty of opportunity to be bounced around by other balls.
Martin had trouble with the Wintergarten machines load and reload functions spilling marbles also. Physics gonna physics.
Without fail, every darn time 😵
So this must be an example of what happens when someone has figured out that youtube's algorithm promotes videos containing the word "satisfying"...
And for all your efforts you've created... The sound of rain.
Jay, it’s always so awesome to see you. Know you pretty well all these years and know that Jay is never satisfied and will be making me laugh cause here it comes, he is going to make a change. So very happy for you, as you continue to grow expand and able to show your brilliance in fun ways. I always learn a little something but most of all your knowledge in this field is amazing. Always look forward to seeing what you do next. Thanks from your biggest fan. Smiled 😊the other day, came across you daisy wedding key chain. Been a minute huh? Only the best to you both.
Thanks John! Appreciate the ongoing support 🙏🙏🙏
Just a suggestion, for flat belts you should try using a convex shaped roller/pulley rather a concave one 5:25 it will help center the belt believe it or not 👍🏼
With all the gravitational study though I’m surprised it didn’t turn into a worm hole haha 😂 keep up the great videos 👌🏼
I actually ended up going with that- saw the steve mould vid on it, worked like a charm
That over head shot looks like a galaxy swirling around.
So true! So mesmerizing
My favorite, most satisfying thing, about this video was that the slom-mo sound was *real*. Not some Mark Rober "add something in post to make it sound neat" bs. No. It was the real deal.
Haha it’s because the good high speed cameras often don’t record audio! But ill take it 😀
Wow, at first I was a bit sceptical... But man, this is satisfying to watch! Nicely done! 🔥
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a true case of “more is better”. Such an amazing and satisfying thing to watch. I also enjoying hearing you describe/summarize your process as you were making this. Your motivation was also the best motivation to me.
Thank!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks 😊
It’s 12:09am and I can confirm this is the most satisfying thing I’ve seen today
Nice job; now try creating machines working with glass balls, they are not perfect in sizes and it'll have some cool challenges to tackle AND i think a more satisfying sound
After seeing your reasoning that 1 ball is satisfying and 1000 would be more satisfying I had to subscribe
Appreciate you catching my vibe on the hypothesis 👊
If wintergatan wasn’t obsessed with music
😂😂
For the tiny balls you should make a ball bearing "wave pool" using one of your mechanical wave designs to manipulate a thousands of the B.B.s hopefully making them look like a low particle fluid simulation.
That sounds pretty epic! And I do love waves
I bought that gravity well stl from you and I took the well and cut it up into 8 pizza like slices and increased their size by 250 - 300 some percent. Filling up my printer bed as large as I could each piece, then connected them together with crazy glue. No need for sanding as they came out smooth and level by printing on their side.
Thats awesome! Thanks for the support!
I really like the step by step videos and the problem/solution concept.
Really interesting!!
Awesome, thank you!
Can you do a studio tour? Where you show off all your inventions, printers, equipment, just your workspace. Id love to see that.
That's pretty cool. When the balls go around the well they form what look like statically-rotating patterns - The position of the balls relative to each other is more constant than I would have thought.
I hadn’t thought about that! Very interesting indeed
I will say congratulations for going through the entire video without making a balls joke
if this doesn't make front page of r/oddlysatisfying then idk what will. Great project Jay!
Haha thanks G!
You just know there's a physics student watching these INTENTLY and taking notes.
Your best results on the center of the well would be to make it an aperture that can fit 7 balls at a time. Essentially a perfect hexagon of balls. One in the middle, six around it.
That means, no matter the rate you drop them into the well, it should never get stuck or slow down.
A slightly steeper beginning incline from the outer edge, as well as having the wall meet the incline being rounded at the same curvature as the balls, would make for a slightly smoother and earlier descent into the well. It's like merging on a highway, you need the balls already on the track to get out of the way of those coming on. They'll bunch up less and have a much smoother trajectory into the well at the center.
3:37 I have the exact same thing, one day I'm going to have a recycler like that :)
Nice project! It really is a very satisfying machine!
Appreciate it! Looking forward to the day 😀
I want to see it printed in the blackest of blacks and have different sized balls in different colours.
It is a really lovely cool shiny and amazing project.
Towards the end watching this, I'm thinking " _Now try it with the 1/2" AND 1/4" ball bearings at the same time_ "
Background: Back in my childhood, I used to build what i called "marble coasters" out of _Hot Wheels_ tracks and whatever random stuff I could prop them on around my bedroom furniture. Not having access to large quantities of uniform-sized marbles or ball bearings, my payload developed into a mishmash of regular marbles, shooter marbles, steel balls of varying sizes, BB's and even a few plastic and wooden beads. The idea was to cram the entire collection through this contraption as quickly as possible (not really as they all had to be hand-placed at the top-of-track), and _all_ the balls regardless of size/weight had to make it to the end. Tuning was necessary to ensure the lighter balls didn't stall out (though they'd get pushed along by heavier ones), and the shooter marbles + larger steel balls didn't gain enough speed to dive off the track.
I would have _loved_ to have had the means to build a conveyor to get marbles from the bottom to the top. The wildly varying ball sizes/weights would no doubt become its own challenge for that.
you’re almost there
Omg the noise it makes is so satisfying and not what I expected to be satisfied by.
Mad respect for the recycling plan you got
I wonder how consistent you could get the marble velocity to be if they never touched the side wall at the beginning 🤔
I think the shape of the well could definitely use some tweaking to get that exactly right! But it would probably help
Another idea - auto-pachinko. Feed into a horizontally sliding chute at the top of the machine that will deposit the BBs into the pin-field. Rig it so that once the middle catch area fills all the BBs are drained from the field and recycled. Potential for pinball style lighting here if you give the pins a metal ring around their bases so that the BB completes the circuit for a light. Other possible inclusions - rotating sections of the pin field, automatic pinball flippers, archemedes screw lifts running up both sides of the play feild so you can watch the BBs get raised back to the tank at the top.
Oof you got me on the auto flippers! Endless chaos
10 out of 10 for everything physical; the high speed shutter on the camera is making my eyes water.
You know id love to see a 15 minute recording of your machines in action
You know, a screw-based loader would have been much simpler. And it's what they use for grain.
But it might have been harder to print!
this is an example of how engeneering can be art
🙏🙏🙏
OMG A new video ! Your projects are always so cool and interesting
Glad you like them!
Really cool work for just a video
Thank you! Cheers!
I would like a video about a machine that can tell you exactly how much energy is needed to push any object. Just an idea you dont have to if u dont want to.
One big difference. This guy finishes his projects.
That last one is an excellent visualisation of the asteroid and kuiper belt
The tiny balls are so much more chaotic and indeed answer one flaw/question that I had regarding the gap when the scoop is overturned. Many balls just dont fall in the hopper! So make a short with some fix for it maybe lol. Anyway can we say a marble version for this? I'm sure so many marble run channels will be thrilled to have this and include it in their runs!
Yeah, the small ball were an afterthought, I think with a slightly different scoop design, it would quickly solve the problem! I think it would already work with marbles if they are the right size!
Amazing!! So much to learn, very inspiring!! Thanks for sharing!✨👌♥️
Saw your strandbeest short, went to your channel hoping you had longform content... I couldn't have been luckier. Bingewatched like 10 videos. I love your content, especially also because you include the whole process and any fails / learning experiences. Thank you for the cool videos!
Appreciate it! Welcome to the journey
Love it dude! You did not lie; This is easily the most satisfying thing ive seen today! 😊
Mission accomplished! Thanks brother!
You had me at “gumball machine”! Very satisfying! I imagine those bearings would rip up those 3d printed parts pretty fast. Thanks for sharing your creative adventures!
I’m not sure I’m going to run it for long enough to find out 😂
For ball dispenser mechanisms, have a look at the DYE Rotor paintball hopper - that thing is fast and powerful, not relying on gravity alone.
Very interesting design!
Nice balls 😎👍
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My only experience with a gravity well was for some large donation container I saw as a kid. I think it was even designed to drop 2 quarters at once, maybe 4 (2 on opposite ends). Once I understood to use the ramps instead of trying to roll them by hand, I was mesmerized and wanted to do more. Maybe try to do a distribution setup for coins and give that a try?
That would be fun! Will definitely revisit this in the future
You didn't mention at all the lower ball-catcher tray on the back of the machine as seen at 9:18.
It appears to be an attempt to catch balls that bounce out of the upper tray, with a return chute to the bottom catch tray at the front.
Not sure if you intentionally or accidentally left out discussing that part, but would have been interesting to hear your take on that part of the machine.
Amazing stuff! I have a similar design for a conveyor but was going to tear up an old tarp. The gumball machine rotary to slowly feed them out is genius.
Old tarp would probably work too!
Awesome video thanks for sharing! Definitely the most satisfying thing I’ve seen today! I like how the smallest balls sounded like a rain storm. A rain machine would be cool for the tiny balls but that seems way too simple for your mad skills. I’m sure you’ll come up with something awesome and I can’t wait to see it!
Thanks Matt! Never ending rain machine would be pretty cool
Could you use both size balls together?
That would be an interesting thing to try!
I could imagine collisions on the gravity well and chaos.
Very cool design. You always have such creative ideas. I guess you used to work as a mechanical designer.
Thank you! I did :)
if I remember correctly from the last time I went to a science museum, the propper profile for a gravity funnel is a logarithm curve.
i was very unsatisfied today because i did not recieve my order and the customer service kept lying about when ill get the refund but this vid made my day with a little bit of science
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