Knex Ball Machine: Uprising

Hey peeps!

I'm proud to present my most recent ball machine, UPRISING!!!

I'm very pleased with how this came out. IT contains 6 lifts and 7 paths with 2 new elements and took about 10 months to build (and then another 3 months to film and edit because of my laziness). Balls travel throughout the paths encountering elements such as loops, mazes, half-pipes, twisty track, ball arms and several other elements. 

The lifts include:
Small wheel lift
Small arm lift
Alternating Arm lift
Chainsaw lift
Single helix lift (varioation of Shadowman39's double helix lift)
Jigsaw lift


This machine was a total joy to build. My puppy is also a huge fan of the machine as it loves to run around following the balls as they roll around the contraption. Hope you guys enjoy it! :D

Comments

[beagledudley]

Anyone Have An Instructable On Chain Rolling? I Need A Better Way Than What I've Been Doing!

[beagledudley]

Yeah! It Would Be An Awful Big Instructable. Do You Mind If I Steal Some Of Your Ideas? I Love All Of The Elements And Would Like To Put Some In My Machine:)

[beagledudley]

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[Tornado96]

I'm not going to post an instructable on such a big project. Just keep building ball machines and you'll get better with time. Thanks for the support though! :)

[dashzar]

nice

[hawk45]

sooooooooooooooooooooo cooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tornado96]

Thanks haha!

[sandroknexmaster]

Can I use the element at 2.22? I really like it.

[Tornado96]

sure! glad to see you like it!

[sandroknexmaster]

Thanks! :D

[an1153]

good job

[Machine]

WOW! That's a big Knex and nicely photographed too.

[WorkingGunn]

thats pretty fantastic now all you need is a mechanism to collect the balls and add them to the que so its in perpetual motion. Just Brilliant

[Tornado96]

Well once the balls complete each track they return to the start of the lifts and go back up again so it is a continuous circuit but its not perpetual motion cos theres motors involved. haha

[WorkingGunn]

ahh well I would run it all day long i loved the little noises it was making. Perfect ball and noise machine.

[I_am_Canadian]

Very sweet machine! Great video work too. The mechanism at 2:22 is my favorite, and the loop is beautiful. The all yellow connector pathing is really really nice too. I love machines that have lots of abstract angles and curves in them, not just 45 and 90 degree angles everywhere.

Brilliant machine my friend :-)

[Tornado96]

Thanks so much man! yeah I love that mechanism as well. I feel if a ball machine is just squares and triangle it makes it quite bland. Abstract is best. haha

Thanks again! Really appreciate it! :D

[~KnexBuild~]

Wow! You got almost 2,200 views in only three days.

[Tornado96]

I know how amazing is it! I'm so thankful for all this. :D

[KneXtreme]

Awesome job! (as usual)

[Tornado96]

haha thanks man! appreaciate it!

[Sorunome]

Awesome.Ball.Machine.
WANT.TO.BUILD.KNEX.NOW D:

[Tornado96]

Why thank you sir!

[Sorunome]

Why?
I'm still in the us - without knex, remember? ;)

[sandroknexmaster]

I remember B)

[Iridium7]

Yup. It's official. You have won the internet.

[Tornado96]

It's spreading pretty well! Hopefully youtube gets a bit more traffic as well. haha

[slaveboy2000]

how long did it take you to make this?

[Tornado96]

I'd estimate around 10 months

[sandroknexmaster]

That's awesome! I like the big looping. Also the element at 2.22 is very nice. What was that other construction at 3.39?

[Tornado96]

The loop paths seems to be everyone's path. The other construction was a roller coaster that didn't go to well... Micro knex coasters have real speed issues.

[sandroknexmaster]

Hmm ... I don't know much about micro coasters but I have some track and micro parts, maybe I should try to build one. But finishing my next ball machine!

[Tornado96]

Micro coasters are annoying. haha, if you have Screamin serpent style use that instead.

[sandroknexmaster]

I have more micro track than SS, I have just 2 rippin rockets...

[c3ralki1l3r]

AMAZING!!!!!

[Tornado96]

THANKS!!! :D haha

[out-of-the-box]

im not a huge fan of knex but i see major dedication here. great video!

[Tornado96]

Thanks so much! great to see others loving knex for what it is! :D

[Shadowman39]

Yay, the video is finally done! :-P Great ball machine Tornado, and congrats on the feature. I love the red path with the loop, and the ending that loops up onto the floor. I may have to use that. ;-)

[Tornado96]

I know! IT took like 3 moths for me to get around to doing it then I finnished it in an afternoon...

Thanks heaps buddy! I CANT BELIEVE I FINALLY GOT FEATURED!!!! :D :D
I'm glad you liked it, yes, I loved building that path as well.