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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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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Adding Computer Vision to the Arduino Delta Robot
In the previous post, I wrote about how I decided to build an Arduino Delta Robot. In this post, I will show you how I added some simple Computer Vision to the project.
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The Quest To Get A Machine To Juggle
This entry is about the quest to get a machine to juggle a ping pong ball.
I started thinking about a ping pong ball juggler 2 years ago. And it was around that time that I built the first one of them. it uses LED – Photo transistor pairs to “see” when and approximately where the ball comes down. I used 4 micro servos to move a wooden plate. Â It’s the machine in the first YouTube video.