Ball Pendulum

This video shows a self oscillating ball pendulum, that feeds a ten counter balance. If I've had enough time, Meccano and balls, the idea was to built a complete clock, with a set of sequential balances, that together would display the current time. Also, it would have been nice to fall a sleep at night to the gentle sound of a ticking ballclock.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• clock
• physics
• mechanics
• fun

[paulobiacodagrama]

You have a video with more details of the operation of equipment?

[eklux]

@paulobiacodagrama

No, I have not, sorry. The pendulum lifts an arm, that lets one ball down on the pendulum, that drives it, and the ball falls off the pendulum and down on the balance.

[DeepDuh]

This gives me a BRILLIANT idea: a ball-processor. step 1): slightly modify the specs of a standard ARM A9 to fit the needs of -well- balls. step 2): implement! how hard can it be?

[eklux]

@DeepDuh

Good idea! It would be much more fun to watch, than an ordinary cpu. And no fan required!

[MrKaddan]

Perhaps if you made it a little more loud and incorporated it in a clock, I might just buy that clock for my bedroom! <.< Anyways, nice escapement, it's always a joy to see your creations come to life!

[delcopond]

Muy guapo tu invento, chulísimo.

Very handsome your invention, very cool.

[WarzSchoolchild]

VERY ELEGANT! Thanks for the post!

[Nabo00o]

Fucking cool!!!

Damn, I newer knew that you had this video here, its like a pure mechanical timer which can be adjusted be adding or removing pebbels :)

[Alek9997]

lol