I made a machine I call the Hexa-Bouncer. It’s the newest addition to a line of useless but mildly interesting ball bouncing machines and the direct successor of the Octo-Bouncer.
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Work on Hexa-Bouncer
It’s been 5 years since I posted something. What was I doing all that time? I’ll give you the short summary: kid was born, made an indie game, made another indie game, changed jobs.
So now I’m tapping on my keyboard again. Why now though? I thought it might be nice to revisit my old hobby of making useless machines. So that’s what I am doing lately.
The Octo-Bouncer: Advanced Bouncing Patterns
Roughly three months have passed since I wrote my initial post about a machine I call “The Octo-Bouncer.” What has happend since then? In this post I talk about what parts of the machine were updated. Why they were updated and what kind of stuff the machine is able to do thanks to these updates.
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The Octo-Bouncer
I started thinking about ball juggling machines in the year 2014. I wrote about my first few attempts at creating them in this blog post from the year 2017. In 2018 I wrote another post about my then newest build. We’re now in the year 2020. And finally, the quest to get a machine to juggle a ping pong ball reliably has come to an end (as this current build is able to keep the ball bouncing for hours.)
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