Blue Fox - Interactive 360° Panorama

I discovered Photosynth recently, so I made a 360 degree panorama of my room/ball machine. This way, you can see the entire machine in a 105 megapixel image rather than one piece at a time, because it really is impossible to photograph it all at once.
Anyway, enjoy! Link

Blue Fox - Preview Video

This video is now two months old, but I just realized I completely forgot to post it here. You may have seen it on my youtube channel, but here it is.






There are 11 working paths in this video.

K'nex Corkscrew

Corkscrews are relatively common in K'nex roller coasters, so I decided to make one with a 2-railed ball track. After several days of tedious fine-tuning, I finally have a working model completed. I can not guarantee that this will make it into the final machine, as reliability may become an issue, but here it is now. Filmed at 30, 300 and 840 frames per second.

K'nex Ball Machine - New look, New name.

I'm going with "Blue Fox" as the working title for my latest K'nex ball machine, which has been recently upgraded with blue spotlights and rope light. It is my goal to have a semi-working model completed by New Years Eve for a party I am hosting. Anyway, enough Tl;DR, have some pictures.

Panorama

Automatic Ball Launcher

Arch going over my desk

close-up of large arch

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What I've been doing lately

I have not had much time to get k'nex building done, as I have been busy working on a non-k'nex engineering project for my intro to mechanical engineering class. Here is a video of my prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd6GxaG5ZCs

New Ball Machine - Preview Video

Here is a video of some of the new tracks I am building for my new ball machine. The machine is nowhere near completed, and a final video will not come until next year. In the meantime, here are four of the tracks in the new machine.

More Ball Machine Progress

I managed to squeeze some construction in this weekend, and may still do some more. I've got a few new paths in the works, mostly overhead bridges. I don't really know where I am going to go from here, I'm really just playing it by ear. Anyway, have some photos.