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Games

Game Review: Unfair

We backed Unfair by Good Games on Kickstarter having no idea what it would be like. But any game that shows a roller coaster on the box is my type of game! I’ll get right to the point of this review: Unfair is a really fun game. Now…

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Sculpture and Art

Lifter #3, Maybe?

Here’s a picture of a lifter ideas I threw together. The cool part is that the ball is lifted almost straight up – this is a straight line approximation mechanism – without a typical elevator or chain lift. The line where the ball goes up is drawn for…

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Sculpture and Art

Ball Lifter #2 Done!

Rolling Ball Lifter #2 is done. Here’s some video and pictures of the finished product. A quick search of this blog will yield other posts about the construction process. This Rolling Ball Sculpture, Marble Run, or Kugelbahn, is mostly a mechanical ball lift. The track is minimal to…

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Linkage Program

New Linkage 3.4

Linkage 3.4 is now available. I got rid of the Elements panel and button. You will now need to right click to insert elements into the mechanism. There are other changes mentioned in the first section of the PDF documentation and in some previous blog posts. Get it…

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Sculpture and Art

RBS On/Off Switch Beta Test

I made a makeshift part to hold the far end of the on/off switch pull rod. Here’s a few pictures: Once I make the decorative part to hold the end of the rod, I’ll cut some threads in the end of the rod and screw on a steel…

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Sculpture and Art

Working On An RBS Again

I cleaned my garage and I’m back to working on a Rolling Ball Sculpture again. My garage was figuratively knee deep in stuff and almost literally knee deep in some places. I wanted to make some room to work on projects while also uncover the climbing wall. Yes,…

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Linkage Program

New Linkage Beta Test

Get the Beta Linkage here! If you need this Beta program for Windows XP, send me an email and I’ll send it to you… There’s a new beta test version of the Linkage program. This new version has some bug fixes for things like the crash that sometimes…

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Linkage Program

Linkage Adjuster Knobs

I’m not sure what to call them. On an actuator, there is a small circle that can be used to change the throw length. That little circle is an adjuster knob or adjustment controller or something like that. I’m working towards in-mechanism editing of cams and changing the…

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Linkage Program

Linkage Update

A new version is available in the usual place. I was finally able to spend the hour needed to fix the crash that happened when deleting links that were fastened to gears (or vice-versa). Version 3.3.13 has this fix. A few other changes and fixes: You can now…

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