K'nex Ball Machine Tartarus

I finished a much smaller project - but I'm not sure if I'm going to post it or not. We'll see :)

Otherwise, I have plans for another large project this summer, with a few restrictions that should make it really interesting. Similar to Metropolis, but obviously with different paths etc.

Are you asking about that mechanism that runs it?

It's actually pretty simple. The axle coming through the center is offset by an orange connector width. There are two axles that run perpendicular to the main axle that have wheels connected to them. These wheels run on small tracks which stop the whole table from spinning.

Whaoh, sorry this reply took so long! It's basically 4 offset axles, with each offset 90 degrees from the others. Go check out the circle ball machine someone else posted; it's basically an adaptation of that :)

The elevator was one of the first things I built, but I didn't get it to work until about a week before the video was taken! I had a backup plan the entire time in case it never worked haha. But one day I just spent the day working on it and got it to work that night, so it's in the machine :)

And thank you! I'm really glad you like it!

Just a chain lift hahahaha

Thank you! I want more hahah

Thanks! :)

I don't have instruction pictures for it, but I can find some pictures of it in the machine if you'd like?

Probably because I don't have pictures :/

Nope! :D
But on the plus side, this project shouldn't take me nearly as long to complete. The only thing really holding me back from it is I can't start it for another four weeks, due to some stuff, and I'm a junior in engineering school, so my life will get crazy here in a month and a half or so. However, once summer starts it shouldn't take more than a few weeks to make this thing :D

You'll just have to subscribe and find out! :D

Wow thank you! Cataclysm and Wipe Out were the machines that inspired me to actually do this, so to have someone compare it to those is such an honor!