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Rube Goldberg Stingray clock
Ok you may be wondering what kind of name it that well this project is a clock that chimes with a STINGRAY and THAT HAS NO TIME BLOCK. It uses the pattern of balls to tell time I made it so it is almost exactly 4 seconds. On the test runs I got times like 3.995 4.000 3.996 4.002 and so on. It has the second hand and the minute hand. In the program it is "nonelectric" meaning it only uses the hands but I have a one that keeps the time on the NXT as well. This is a GBC Great Ball Contraption but small. This might now be very big but it was a fun one to make. All the futures are two slides, one jump, one whirlpool, a lifter, a Stingray (chimes on the hour) five motors, can hold 2 on normal 3 on fast (but they can go over board) 2 NXT's and "One crazycontraption" (MSEP). This project will be more or less slow with lots of detail that is because I want the moderators/judges to understand it in full. This is how it works; You add a ball to the lifter and on the first slide one the Whirlpool, press start ball Whirlpool turns .25 lifter moves the ball in its hand to the slide, ball slides down over the jump then back the hole and goes in the next slot of the Whirlpool, Whirlpool turns another .25 knocking out the first ball the ball slides down the ramp colors sensor sees it sending a message to the other NXT and in to the lifer, lifter lifts it up and it goes down the slide over the jump in the hole, and repeat over and over and over. This project’s demotions are 9’’ high 15'' long 8'' wide. This project has three hour build time less than one programming. Thank you to nxtstep101 for the idea. Please read the other things and PLEASE COMMENT!!!

The Stingray

The Stingray uses plating from the supercar I know it is red but this is part of its charm. This is how it works after 60 minutes 3600 seconds and 900 times the balls pass the color sensor the Stingray goes off this was going to be a plane or a bird but it ended up as a stingray. There is not a lot to say about it but the tail works AND IT HURTS when it chimes it makes ocean sounds and it stays up there for three seconds. This ray makes this model look awesome.

The slide and the jump

This is the very first step in the ball maze pretty simple the lifter moves the balls up and drops them in the bucket at the top as you can see it gets wider to smaller so the balls will go in easy and come out balanced on the rail. Once getting some speed they hit a bump it the track and fly over the hole and back on the track. They lose some speed one the slowly inclining rail and lose all of it at the steep part so they roll back the opposite way and in to the hole that they jumped over. This stage has no motors but makes this look fun to see.

The Whirlpool

The whirlpool got its name because I couldn't think of anything else. But since this is a water type project it worked out nicely. this is how it works after going down the hole they are going pretty fast so that made this super hard to make but this is how it works the ball go down, it spins the other ball goes in, it spins knocking the first one down. This has a 4:1 gear ratio so it goes steady. The hard part was that the ball kept falling out :( so it took me a whole hour to try to fix that.

The track 2

After going down the whirlpool they fall in a bin and go out a hole and then the color sensor see it and sends a message to the NXT number 2. After being seen by the color sensor it rolls down in to the lifter. This is just like the slide but no jump.

Lifter

After the ball goes in the track it comes out and falls in the bucket which is lifted up and brought back to the top again. It has no gears but it works well and I have never had a time when this unit failed even on the first time.

Conclusion

the word are MSEP and unit please comment i love hearing from you. I can't wait to see this get posted YEAH!!!!!! and here is a different photo of Range Rover V1.

Comments

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  • bradex2000

  • OMG THIS IS TO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted 373 days and 6 hours ago


  • idkwhoyouare

  • Yeah thanks!!!

  • Posted 373 days and 1 hour ago


  • SDR4491

  • Nice job!

  • Posted 371 days and 6 hours ago



  • polardozer

  • cool plz make a2.0

  • Posted 335 days and 21 hours ago


  • idkwhoyouare

  • I might if I make a GBC I will make it a 2.0 of this!

  • Posted 331 days and 8 hours ago


  • skeloton325

  • Imagine 5 stars. Imagine me rating this five stars. Imagine me rating this way too little. Me rating this five stars IS me rating it way too little.
    1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars!

  • Posted 324 days and 0 hours ago


  • idkwhoyouare

  • Well that would be bad if you gave it five stars:P so I guess 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars is god :D (second favorite comment ever)

  • Posted 319 days and 0 hours ago


  • idkwhoyouare

  • Excuse me I meant good

  • Posted 316 days and 4 hours ago


  • simbox2340

  • you burped in the video

  • Posted 9 days and 6 hours ago


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