I Made a Ball Rollercoaster that's also a Clock
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
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Huge thanks to Elegoo for making this video possible! Check out the Neptune 4 Max Printer here:
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Here is the link to Motiongen: motiongen.io/
The creators of MotionGen also create robotics kits that are pretty cool, check them out here: www.snappyxo.com
This is the laser cutter I use for all my projects:
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I have a bunch of cool mechanical 3d print files available on my website:
engineezy.com
I also have a patreon: / engineezy
Also, the electric screwdriver I used to assemble and disassemble this thing many times is a game changer: geni.us/f6oJ
This is the filament I use: geni.us/sdT9QBj
0:44 - Building the Base
2:00 - How the Time Will Show
3:36 - Designing the Track
4:28 - Building the Track
7:34 - Designing the Lifting Mechanism
8:52 - Engineering the Clock Mechanisms
10:37 - The Final Results
The Rollercoaster Clock is something out of my childhood dreams. I used to play tons of rollercoaster tycoon as a kid, and I spent a good portion of my life planning to be a rollercoaster designer. Dreams have finally come true as I formulated this track. Dreams were then shattered as I realized it was going to be weeks before I could see the thing working in real life. The lifting mechanism uses a couple linkages that work in tandem to raise the ball up to the top of the track. Then gravity takes over as the ball travels through a loop de loop and a helix before finding it's way onto one of 3 tracks that make up the clock face. The track selection is handled by a gear system that is connected to a cam and follower mechanism. After 10 minutes go by, the balls on the lowest track get released via another cam and follower mechanism. The selector then selects the next track, and a ball is deposited. This is repeated every 10 minutes until an hour has passed, where the same mechanism selects the top track. After 12 hours have gone by, all 3 tracks get emptied, and the cycle starts again.
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WOW! Imagine sitting in a waiting room watching that until your appointment! Sounds more fun than a normal clock!
Haha definitely better than a soggy magazine
@@Engineezythats true
@@Engineezy you should actually do that! You are gonna make so much money out of that
Imagine sleeping at night just for your clock ro wake you up😅
OMG 320 likes wowzersssss
this honestly belongs in the main lobby of an engineering museum. It's such an elegant piece which would fit perfectly
Thank you! That would be pretty cool
There actually is one of these at a museum close to where I live! It's not a clock, but it's a similar construction!
@@Engineezymake it work in military time next please (24 hours before reset, aka it continues to count after twelve, this would be helpful for someone who knows their room without natural light.
OMG I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT THAT EXACT THING
Can you make a roller coaster football🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The fact that you used cam wheels running off a single motor instead of just programming separate motors to open the track doors really bumps this to the next level, love it.
Thanks! Decided I had do go full out or not at all on this one 😅😵 appreciate you appreciating!
Yup, I was really hoping it'd be mechanical and it was very satisfying to see it work. I wish there had been more footage of the mechanism working in place, but it was still super aatisfying.
I particularly liked how it handled the case of 12 o'clock, where the 12th hour ball just flows straight through the gate without stopping. That was an interesting case of a natural program flow resolving what would otherwise become an off-by-one error.
I need a live stream of this thing running 24/7....
same
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That trick with printing your loop flat and then moving it around with the heat gun was 200iq. Thank you so much for sharing that little bit of an idea in the video
It was the first timer I’ve ever tried something like that! Definitely a good tool to keep in the bag
Legit. Gonna have to put that one in my back pocket!
make it really small?
I'd buy one. It'd also be cool if it had numbers under where the balls sit so you don't need to count them to read it.
I would totally buy the files for one that could fit just like normal ball bearings
Make a wrist watch out of it
Now make it 5 times smaller
You play gorilla tag?
Love the revist of old projects, it's like how artist redraw old pictures to show how they leveled up
Hahah true! Definitely feels like I’ve upped my game since then
a real time, 12 hour, cinematic, ambient music, video of this would be dope. I can imagine me having it on while working and such.
This project really highlights the growth in your CAD mastery. Gorgeous engineering and art
Thank you! My computer could barely keep up haha!
This is so impressive. Just wow. A 13 minute video from months or work. Thanks and keep inspiring people!
Thanks for appreciating! Will do 😀
The full release @ 12 is so satisfying!
Agreed!
Truly brilliant, Jay. Honestly, your artistic sense combined with your engineering skill makes you one of a kind. Amazing work - and a beautiful art piece.
Thanks Michael! Appreciate your ongoing support!
Your builds are just so elegants. The supports, the shape, it's really nice!
Thank you for appreciating! I feel like the design aspects can get lost in the engineering sometimes and try really hard to make sure that doesn’t happen
Incredible!!!
I had the thought that all motion sculptures are clocks, just usually not aligned with the quirky periods of our time measurements. I often get lost in the rhythm of motion sculptures, as a new beat, or way of counting time is shown to me. All that to say, don't be afraid to make strange clocks. If it moves on a period, it's a clock.
Very true!
Good at building AND juggling (1:22), you really can do it all! Great work, keep on going and improving!!!
😅😅 thank you!
I'm not even done watching but this looks sick. This genuinely needs to go in like.. a museum or smt. its incredible. honestly, i would kill for videos of the entire process.. like, from idea to design to test to working.
Thank you! Really appreciate it
I can’t imagine how proud you are of that and that feeling you got when you saw that it actually works. That was awesome to watch!
Definitely felt proud about this one! Thanks for enjoying it as much as me 👊👊
I don’t think you understand how much I want this in my room. I need this in my life now.
Haha thank you!
Awesome idea! I do have a suggestion that would make that clock WAY easier to read instead of counting the balls one by one. If you simply added numbers below where the balls lined up, it would be simple for other people to read it without having to explain. So if you put numbers 1-12 on the top, 10-50 in increments of ten on the middle row, and 1-9 on the bottom, I think then you would have the perfect clock!
Or you can have a raspberry pi run a count using a camera to display it on a LED matrix! Just another addon , and with the raspberry pi added you can make it a controller for ambient lighting and such. You don't have to redesign the clock mechanism again. But adding more stuff does not necessarily make it more efficient
Love the idea of using the pi to count the balls 😂 I didn’t want to take away from the clean aesthetic so I left the numbers off! Gotta make people work for the time 😀
@@wowzande And adding color led under the acrylic parts
Crazy beautiful !
I think it's beautiful as is. it's not about the time, it's about the beauty of the machine. Great work! @@Engineezy
@@wowzandeif you can get a raspberry pi these days…
Please, just have a 24hr video of this thing running. Absolutely beautiful and so brilliant. Well done!
I def need to get that set up!
0:40 if u heard it you heard it
Ykyk😂
What???
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@@daniel.s2333 😭
It’s clear he says “clock.” You can hear the /l/ sound.
the white plastic makes it so.... beautiful. so elegant.... maybe its just the engineer in me, but this gave me a lot of joy watching it come together and work
Glad you enjoyed it! I feel the same way
Wow this is just impressive! So mesmerizing. Upload the behind the scenes video next with all the prototyping and development, I would love to watch that!
It would just be a video of me staring at my computer for hours on end! 😅
I'm a mechanic because I love seeing this sort of thing. Anytime I get something new in the shop, it makes my day.
Thanks! Hope it inspires 🙌
I don't understand why marble runs are so satisfying, but man.. they are 😂
Awesome build!
My thoughts exactly! Thank you!
Crazy idea:
Since you use so many 3d prints in your builds, how about you try to make something that will grab a finished print directly from the machine when it's done and store it somwhere. That way you could let one machine work through the night, come back the next morning and have a bunch of prints ready!
Check out Array by mosaic manufacturing 🙌
Great video!! I can' imagine the brain it would've taken to design all the mechanisms. All the mechanisms working together in perfect synchronization is just beautiful! It's my dream to be able to make cool mechanisms like this!!! Again Great video!!
Thank you! This is the culmination of years of making projects! Piece by piece, you got this!
If you make this tiny, I’d actually buy this to use as a clock. This is super satisfying
Im gonna work on it!
1:40 reminds me of that sign maker
Is there a way to purchase these
Absolutely not… i think.
Thats amazing! You should make it a clock!
...Oh, wait.
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Nice job Jay! It came out great!! I love watching those 3 tracks merge into 1!!
Thanks Toby! That’s my favourite feature haha
My brain at 1:51 Are you doing lorrercoaster or scate board
😂😂
Not lorrercoaster, not skateboard, rollercoaster. (and clock)
I watch a lot of these kinds of videos, but this is the first one in a LONG time to truly inspire me to try to create something fanciful and functional. I LOVE this project. I'd love to see more behind the scenes, more design, and more build of this project. This was a great 13 minutes and I'd love to see a lot more!
Thank you!! Really appreciate that, thinking I’ll do a live stream to talk more about the details and answer questions!
Hey creative youtube dude that does cool things that entertain me.
I just thought I would let you know about R-Type Nylon Rivets. As a fellow person who assembles various prototype like things (albeit usually a much smaller scale), I think that these would be pretty awesome for you.
They are reusable, require less effort in cad than threads or threaded inserts, can be shipped with spares really cheaply compared to most hardware, come in white so that they fit in with the color scheme of most of your projects, and come in all sorts of sizes so you can pick whatever you'd like.
I've recently used them in the physical construction of a custom drone test stand, and I'm really liking them, so I thought I'd share. Much less headache than the usual heat set inserts, or busting out the impact driver for direct into plastic screws and all they require is 2 holes in panels, or 2 holes where one side is a panel and the other has just a countersunk space for the back end of the rivet to expand into making them dead simple to insert into cad, and because they're so cheap, but look decent from the outside, your prototype can end up being your finished product.
Wow, that's really cool. And not even an advertisement as I thought it was. Thanks!
Good to know! Will definitely check it out
Incredible work my friend. I love watching your problem solving and how you get your final design together.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thanks so much for watching!
That 12 o’clock drop 😮💨
Agreed.
Amazing.. !!!! It does need to be on display somewhere.
Open to it!
Awesome project Jay, I love the mechanisms you came up with! There are lots of great ideas in this video like the one with the heatgun and the loop, I keep that in mind ;)
Glad you enjoyed it! Definitely a good trick to keep in the bag
If I had all the tools to make stuff like this I feel like I would design it the exact way you do. I love the white clear and metal color scheme as well as the mechanisms
Respect 🫡
When I read "What's the time?" On the thumbnail i literaly heard my head saying: "PlayTime!"
😂😂 don’t ever change
Wow awesome! Now for a military time, 24-hour format 😆
🥵🥵🥵 hahaha!
Impressive as always.
Thank you! Cheers!
This is insane. I can help but wonder how you managed to make sure that there would be one ball every minute. I’ve never been so astounded
The motor is a stepper motor, so it can be precisely controlled! Although to be fair it probably loses time due to the microcontroller losing time
How can I buy this!!!??
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Wow, one of the most impressive projects I've seen on RUclips! Awesome job 👏
Thank you!! Appreciate it 😀
Make a am and pm
Awesome. So much dedication is inspiring to see. Great work.
Appreciate you appreciating! Glad I can inspire
Add a board which has AM/PM written on the faces and flips over every time all the balls are emptied or it's 12 o'clock. Even better if it is flipped over by a ball.
So doable! Great idea
The title💀
How cool would it be if this design were commercially available for people to put together themselves!
Would be sick! Might be worth pursuing!
What an awesome mechanical solution! I love that you didn’t even need electronics or computer logic in the final design!
It was a fun challenge but also a challenging challenge 🤓😵
Such a marvellous creation!! So much to learn from this ; very inspiring!! Thanks for sharing !!✨👌♥️
Thank you! Cheers!
Where I live, holding up your fingers as you did at the end of the video means "f*** y**". I say this because it caught me off guard seeing this. That said, your clock is really awesome. Those printers are just phenomenal! 😱
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This thing is just amazing. I would love to have one of these in my house.
Thanks!!
I love the idea. I would be interested to see a similar project on a flat surface, combining with your belt driven sculpture idea that simulates Shibuya crossing in Japan.
Love this idea!
Another masterpiece, outstanding work!
Thank you very much!
This is now one of my all-time favorite clocks.
Yesss! 🫡🫡🫡
So wonderful, so elegant, just looking like a wow.
Thanks so much 😊
I’m intrigued to purchase this product
this is a really great project, well done
Thank you!!
Friend that comes over: What's the time?
Engineezy: Hold on, let me check my balls.
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I loved watching you do this and the final result was totally awesome and I bet if it was made out of brass it would look so cool I can't wait to see if you do more marble stuff
Thank you! Cheers!
This clock is a showpiece. Most impressive. Honestly if I lived in a mansion I would want this as the first thing you see as you walk in. I am in love with it.
🙏🙏🙏
Amazing dedication, great work!
Amazing!! I never get tired of watching your creations.
Thank you so much 😀
i think you should update the timing so it releases the singles after the ten is added that way there is a difference between the first and last few seconds of avery ten minutes (4,9 4,0 5,0 to 4,9 4,10 5,0)
Not a bad idea!
Love the idea of this project. I think 🤔 just by creating alternativing colors for the balls like black or white or whatever you choose could make counting the easier without ruining the over all aesthetic of the piece.
Thank you! That’s an interesting idea! I’m having trouble visualizing if they would remain alternating, might be worth trying it out
Do a marble track with the goal of making it as satisfying as possible
Love it!
So freaking premium man. I wish the balls had a more consistent radius and smoothness, but obviously metal balls would be too heavy. Love it.
Agreed!! I was looking for alternative options but couldn’t find anything viable! Going to keep looking!
I love watching the progression of your skills in how components are designed / assembled / connected ... So cool! Great work on this project, as always. 💪🏻
Thanks! Definitely feels like progression, glad you can appreciate 👊
I think you should just make crazy mechanical clocks from now on.
Hahahah! I do have another clock idea in my future
Congratulations! This is such a wunderfull mechanism. But what's the best: As far as I understand it is totaly mechanic. No microcontroler involved (maybe for motor speed timing?).
Your work maybe pushes me to invest in a laser cutter and/or CNC milling machine for acrylic (like Snapmaker ARTISAN?). Who knows. 😀
Exactly! Just for motor timing and silent motor operation- could work with a regular dc motor geared to the right timing!
Unless they've done something substantially different with the Artisan than they did with the SnapMaker 2.0, I wouldn't recommend any SnapMaker machine for CNC milling, because the bed stability is poor, since the linear modules only support it in the middle, and there are no additional supports (in the 2.0, at least) along the length of the bed. I had to install aftermarket linear rails on mine to compensate, and it was a pain in the butt. Also, SnapMaker's own CNC software is kinda lacking, though you *can* use Fusion 360 or other with it.
@@Engineezy Or using a synchronous motor (like in these old flip clocks). This would make the clock ultra precise.
@@g.j.647 very true!
That full clear was satisfying AF to watch.
Hahaha I know right?! You only get it twice a day to keep you wanting it
This is insane it really belongs in a museum. Your work is unbelievable.
Thank you!! Really appreciate that
This clock is a mad great addition to some really fancy house
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@@Engineezy mood
This would make a great clock!
I was thinking that!
seeing all the balls roll off the clock is like a reward for making it through the day
Absolutely! Agreed
@@Engineezy its even better when you are high on 5 cans of redbull and you just hear all the balls rolling and you know its too late to hand in your assignment and you wasted it all on nothing
really love the idea with the loop
👊👊🙏🙏
The coolest clock I have ever seen
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Love the commitment to do a full timelapse to show the changes instead of just jumping to the times by setting the wheels and balls accordingly.
Do real time, 12 hours + and a huuuuge video file, for a minute of video.
Stage, 1 hour + for same minute of video.
😂 Props my man!
I found a coment without a coment from him
The end result is honestly surprisingly clean. Loud, but clean.
Definitely loud haha
I love the combination of graceful lifting of the ball verses the rapid motion of each ball as it hurries down the track to its final resting place. 👏👏👏👏
I havent even thought about that! Love the perspective 🙏
The next iteration could have the release levers operated by the balls rolling in the rails above, e.g. the next 10-min-ball releases the nine 1-min balls, and the hour-ball releases the five 10-min balls.
In the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments in Dresden, Germany, there is a collection of mechanical clocks including ball rolling clocks from the Late Renaissance and the Baroque era. Maybe you could get some inspiration from them?
Absolutely! That sounds like a cool place
Fantastic design and I like the way you present your thinking
Appreciate it!
That looks like an amazing version of the old ball bearing clock I had in the early 2000s
Wow I’m blown away 5:30 am Saturday morning Kelowna, great start to the weekend. 👍
Thanks for starting your weekend off with me!
Absolutely top notch work! Well done!
Thank you! Cheers!
That is incredible. I hate that term but it feels « Apple made ». It’s so elegant, the white and transparent plastic associate so well with the wood. And it also serves as a clock. So yeah, great job.
Thank you!! Definitely try to get the aesthetic right along the way!
I would legit pay for a 12 hour, loopable recording of this thing in motion
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Elegant and simple, I like it!
Thank you! 😊
the work that gone through making this 🤯... really hat's off man.
Very much appreciated!
Great project. It would be awesome to have the gates controlled by the number of balls that are in the clock section. Then you could set the clock by just adding or removing balls in those sections. It would eliminate the needs for the many of the gears, but complicate the controlling of the gates. I started to figure it out and it looks like it could be done by having the last ball in a row keep a latch open that would redirect the next ball to flip various gates to perform the needed actions.
If you were to sell something like that I would buy it in a heartbeat
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Your best work so far. Nice clock. Still waiting you to add light to your work.
Thank you! Maybe one day 😄
Whelp, I really wished I had this displayed in a waiting room for the pure entertainment
That would be cool! Maybe one day
This is the first video I found from you and I am INSTANTLY hooked. MOAR!!!
🙌🙌 Moar coming real soon!
clean minimalist design love it
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Man I really love this thing. It's super satisfying. I just wish either the balls or track was darker. Some contrast would make it pop and could help with telling the time a little faster. Still a 10/10 project.
Definitely worth a little wood stain on the balls eh!
Amazing Work Jay! As a fellow engineer (Volvo Cars R&D, Gothenburg, Sweden) I really enjoy your creative process, innovations to combine multiple (often existing) techniques into something unique and also your really Awesome videography… which is a trait not all engineers naturally learn, so Extra compliments for that sir!!
Appreciate it! Its been a lot of work to get the video skills to where they are, and I don’t feel like theyre even half of what the engineering is! Haha thanks for enjoying my work!