Knex Ball Machine ECLIPSE

by Thibault Art

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Intro: Knex Ball Machine ECLIPSE

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my Instructable page where i show you my latest creation. For the last 19 months I've been building my biggest Knex Ball Machine to this date. It contains 16 separators, 8 lifts, 17 paths, 12 motors and 41 new elements ready to be posted on instructables so you can build them as well.

For this ball machine i decited to build a very basic floor with no tunnels, no moving parts or whats so ever. But for the lifts i decited to think out of the box and thats how i found several cool lifts like the Double Ring Lift. This lift has 2 large rings that turns and goes up and down at the same time which makes it really cool to look at. There's also a lift that works as a robot thanks to what is called "Cyber Knex". For everybody that doesn't know what Cyber Knex is, Cyber Knex allows you to make knex constructions move like a robot by programing the motors to do the movements you want them to make. But the problem was that i didn't have the material to program anything, so i made a transmission that controlled the buttons of the motors, which makes it a perfect running robot without any programs.

The main separator is a remake of my previous seperator which i used in my previous knex ball machine (The Exception) but with a much cleaner and more compact design.

But the biggest part of this ball machine are the elements. On this machine you will find a lot of cool elements like a giant buzz saw element, weird loopings and a lot more!

If your intrested you can always watch the video that you can find above, I'm sure you'll like it :).

Thanks for your time,

Thibault Art.

45 Comments

KnexXHyperX 2 months ago

So why aren't there any instructions for the arm lift at 12:00? I feel like you could modify it not to use the green gears, but doing so would make it look more complex than it already is. I like the lift so much that I want to build it.

The Knex King 1 year ago

I'm amazed by the ingenuity and creativity of this ball machine! It's insane how many moving parts you can have and still have the machine function properly. You really motivated me to keep on building and buying more k'nex!!!

Knexified 2 years ago

This is massive!!! Holy cow! No wonder it took 19 months! How did you get it so tall to the ceiling??

KnexXHyperX 3 years ago

how many white connectors did you have in it? and how long did to take build since some elements were huge-ish

koolcoasterkid 7 years ago

Wow, great job, can't wait until the next one!

www139 8 years ago

Beautiful ball machine! All the new elements are awesome and just has a beautiful flow to it. Well done!

www139 7 years ago

You're welcome! :)

JM1999 7 years ago

Absolutely amazing!! I've been waiting for this to come out and I thought you'd given up on it! Obviously not!

Good job!

Thibault Art 7 years ago

Don't hesitate, you can never have too much pieces. :)

JulianAzz 8 years ago

Well done for the dedication of time you put in it!

Netchman 8 years ago

This machine is incredible. In terms of new ideas and innovations, this is soundly the best ball machine ever. Are you going to do any Instructables of the elements/separators/lifts? I'd love to build some of your elements.

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