No, it’s not titled “Thrown Together,” that’s just a description of how I started it. As you can see in the video, the base is the working-platform for a previous sculpture (now sitting on a sheet of acrylic) and the motor mounts are just wood bits. First Full…
Continue readingThe next lifter needs a crank that oscillates for about 200 degrees of a circle. The only way to achieve that is to use a motor crank to drive a crank on the big gear that then drives the small gear and its crank. 100 degrees of movement…
Continue readingI had a dilemma; how do I send a bunch of complex JavaScript data within HTML without using AJAX. The server is running Tomcat and the HTML content is generated by some Java classes triggered by a servlet. The funny thing about this is that once I solved…
Continue readingWe 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…
Continue readingHere’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…
Continue readingRolling 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…
Continue readingI was reading a bunch of funny programming related stories on a page dedicated to programing stupidities, and came across this: About four years ago, I was working on a project that, among other things, involved porting several million lines of code. While not technically real-time, the code…
Continue readingLinkage 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…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingI 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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