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Knex Ball machine Twister - TGKTR3 Entry - Now with video!
Wohoo!
I finally finished my ball machine. Its by far my biggest build, eating thousands of pieces and many hours. I'm happy with the result though. It features a few larger elements, such as the "Yin Yang" as seen on KI, a switching element made of ball switchers, a large spiral bowl, a big arm dropper and a 2 stage element. All together it comes to over 90 feet of track!
The other main part of this ball machine is the lift mechanism, called "switchers" (I think...)
They are really cool. One of the drawbacks is that they require a fair bit of energy to work, so I had to gear my motors down t have enough torque. So its a bit slow, but I think its well worth it.
But enough of my biased intro, have a look for yourself!
Oh yeah, and thanks to The knex weasel, darth trainman, shadowman39, I used their ideas in this ball machine. Also thanks to Gortess, whom I borrowed a few pieces from.
Other cool facts...
Took a month and a bit to build
Took 2 hours to take apart
Uses 7000 pieces
Has over 90 feet of track!
Enjoy!
The video has arrived! Sorry for the wait. Hope you enjoy it.
Here's the direct link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6WTZWN23Y
I had to repost the video on a different account, so your comments/ratings are gone now, sorry. For anyone interested, there was 400 views when I took it down.
I finally finished my ball machine. Its by far my biggest build, eating thousands of pieces and many hours. I'm happy with the result though. It features a few larger elements, such as the "Yin Yang" as seen on KI, a switching element made of ball switchers, a large spiral bowl, a big arm dropper and a 2 stage element. All together it comes to over 90 feet of track!
The other main part of this ball machine is the lift mechanism, called "switchers" (I think...)
They are really cool. One of the drawbacks is that they require a fair bit of energy to work, so I had to gear my motors down t have enough torque. So its a bit slow, but I think its well worth it.
But enough of my biased intro, have a look for yourself!
Oh yeah, and thanks to The knex weasel, darth trainman, shadowman39, I used their ideas in this ball machine. Also thanks to Gortess, whom I borrowed a few pieces from.
Other cool facts...
Took a month and a bit to build
Took 2 hours to take apart
Uses 7000 pieces
Has over 90 feet of track!
Enjoy!
The video has arrived! Sorry for the wait. Hope you enjoy it.
Here's the direct link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b6WTZWN23Y
I had to repost the video on a different account, so your comments/ratings are gone now, sorry. For anyone interested, there was 400 views when I took it down.
Discussions
8 years ago
Cheers! ..And do as you wish :-p
10 years ago
Theres going to be 20 in OBLIVION
Reply 10 years ago
There's 25 in Labyrinth.
Reply 10 years ago
there's gonna be 40 in godzilla...oh sorry I thought we were naming random junk. haha my bad...wow this is an old conversation...U ALL BETTER REREAD IT FOOLLLSSS lol i love doing that...i mean who doesnt. I used to be sooo different....haha i shud get a life
Reply 8 years ago
If you were to build one like the labyrinth, you probably could, with it going around your house.
Reply 10 years ago
your kidding riht cause i only saw 10
Reply 10 years ago
No, there's actually 19.
Reply 10 years ago
by th eway did you make wipe out just so you could make a video of it and are you working on a new ball machine
Reply 10 years ago
in that case the video was really bad becuase he did not take a video of each path but the ball machine is really cool
Reply 10 years ago
He tends to make his videos like that. :-P
Reply 10 years ago
Labyrinth? link?
Reply 10 years ago
Right here.
Reply 10 years ago
He said 19 paths.
Reply 10 years ago
Oh, okay. I don't know why I thought it had 25, lol.
11 years ago
9 Tracks? Thats gotta be a new record.
Reply 11 years ago
Nope 10 is.
Reply 10 years ago
There needs to be a machine with over 9000 paths.
Reply 8 years ago
If you were to build one like the labyrinth, you probably could, with it going around your house.
Reply 10 years ago
yah cause there was 10 in wipe out
Reply 9 years ago
Track 5 splits halfway, so I would count it as 10.
Reply 11 years ago
nah mine has 10 and still going!
10 years ago
where did you find the halp looped tyhing with drop in the center i would like to add it to my current ball machine
Reply 10 years ago
Its an element I came up with... There are a few others though, search "Yin yang" on youtube to find a few.
10 years ago
the lifts are a bit slow but the ball machine is very cool
Reply 10 years ago
Thanks :-)
11 years ago
but i was wording if your could help me(plz pm me and i will tell you)
and i just had to give you this
below is what you posted
Reply 11 years ago
Ive seen those videos far to many times... Go ahead and pm me. I just posted those to show someone on KI, I couldn't post them there for some reason,
Reply 11 years ago
what does pm mean and by the way u used a ball arm that was in project NAOANO
Reply 11 years ago
NAOANA?
PM = private message.
Reply 11 years ago
kk plz pm me how tomake the my lift keeps braking
Reply 11 years ago
I need more information than that if you want any help :-p
Reply 11 years ago
can u show how to make the lift plz and the teaghter totter
Reply 11 years ago
There's close ups in the photos here.
There's an instructable for the lift too.
Reply 10 years ago
the stepper lift ?
Reply 10 years ago
Yep. Its a poor instructable though.
Reply 10 years ago
It's NANO, not NAOANA.
Reply 11 years ago
Do you have a Photobucket account if you do can you give me a link??
Reply 11 years ago
I do, but there is nothing on there I want anyone to see apart from to photos I post here, so there is no reason.
10 years ago
I am rating .5 stars untill you remove the keyword "gun" from the tags, when you remove it i will rate 5 stars like it deserves. I do not want to see this is the knex gun top rated page. Not cool.
Reply 10 years ago
by the way where did you get the purple tubing from
Reply 10 years ago
This is a forum topic. And there is no "knex gun top rated page". There is just a top rated page.
Reply 10 years ago
I am rating all of your instructables .5 stars because you care about rating.
11 years ago
WOAH, this is AMAZING !!!!!!!! This is what knex should be used for, not bloomin gunz !!
Reply 11 years ago
Thanks very much!
Reply 11 years ago
Your cannon will tear this ball tower to shreds.
Reply 11 years ago
Oh my god! I could just imagine that! Firing his heavy cannon at this at point blank...
Duck and cover!
Reply 11 years ago
I also had the idea of someone building both the heavy cannon and the knexsayer, and putting the knexsayer right in front of the barrel of heavy cannon, then having the heavy cannon firing right into its side.
Reply 10 years ago
Aww I wish I saw this comment earlier! I had both made and I took them apart piece by piece! =(
Reply 11 years ago
Ouch!
Reply 11 years ago
I agree, there are too many Knex guns.