Mechanical Thimblerigger

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+28 1. Bot-fly commented 12 years ago

Las Vegas during the renaissance?
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+17 2. Geekster (admin) commented 12 years ago

How does it manage to get the ball from one cup to another ? Or is it stop-motion animation ? :D
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+46 3. ValdeLevis commented 12 years ago

#2 All three cups have a ball in them. The toy varies which two balls that it picks up, a rather clever trick, right?
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+1 4. Tarc commented 12 years ago

I really do wonder if it is made to act randomly, and if so, how it is implemented.
Coding on a computer is one thing, mechanical stuff is another :)
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+3 5. kmmde commented 12 years ago

#4 the implementation of a rnd()-function isn't less interesting than a mechanical random implementation would be. both have to be pseudo random number generators. and no, i don't think the toy acts randomly.
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+2 6. Tarc commented 12 years ago

#5 Absolutely, having insight into the random function rather than just calling it is very interesting :) More interesting to me.. but the tools are given, you just need an algorithm.

With mechanical stuff, it would be a challenge, wouldn't it :)

Now that you mentioned pseudo generator, I think it won't work mechanically, I mean why create a long set of steps manually when you can use gravity and nature to determine which way something falls for example. Using nature this way is something you cannot do on a computer
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+1 7. loadrunner commented 12 years ago

Spoiler:



There is a magnet on a wheel under the cups, the position of the magnet decides which cup releases the ball.
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+4 8. manxman commented 12 years ago

#4 it's not random, if you watch the video again the balls appear in exactly the same order. :P
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0 9. Judge-Jake commented 12 years ago

#8 But only if you watch the video again. If you watch the video again 19 times the sequence changes. This should tell you something >:)
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-5 10. h8isgr8 commented 12 years ago

Look at the background, idiots. It's stop motion.
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-3 11. primate1970 commented 12 years ago

Why are people voting down the only comment #10 that is true...? The video is stop motion photography...!