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
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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ESP32 Micro Robot Arm
Talk about cheap stepping motors and there’s a good chance someone will mention the “28BYJ-48”. Or maybe he or she will not remember the part number and say something along the lines of “That 3 dollar stepper used in air conditioners! You know! B28 something!” Truth be told, it doesn’t get much cheaper than 3 dollars. The 28BYJ-48 is the queen of ultra-low-cost steppers.