Friday, June 14, 2024

Ball Machine at Japan Brickfest 2016



I’ve seen a lot of ball machine videos, and this one is truly impressive. There are 20 different modules designed by four engineers, working together beautifully to showcase different processes. In one, a ball must be thrown through a basket to advance. In another, a robot sorts the basketballs from the soccer balls. Others demonstrate classic machines and how they work. And who wouldn’t love the dragons that pick up and toss the balls? You can imagine how much time and testing went into this! Canadian Academy & KLUG took this contraption to Japan Brickiest in Kobe. (via Viral Viral Videos

4 comments:

  1. Good morning, Miss C-

    To get ahead of the date ninnies... your copy states this happened a couple weeks ago, and the video says 2016.

    either way, very cool video!

    please excuse lack of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling errors- fell down flight of stairs last saturday, reconstructive surgery sunday, now typing with one hand...

    happy friday, miss c!

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  2. Oh dear! I will pray for your surgery and recovery.

    Got this rerun properly edited now, thanks for the heads up. Hope your Friday goes as well as possible.

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  3. Bummer Mark, hope all is well real soon.
    The balls being transported up by various means then running down a straight or twisted track has been done a thousand times. But this set up had some new wrinkles, the fork to fork passing, the basket shooting, and sorting by color. There were probably nuances that went over my head and only the in-crowd would notice, but overall it was very impressive.
    xoxoxoBruce

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  4. I never would have watched this video if you hadn't recommended it. Thank you!

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