Braking My Roller Coaster 

Who could have thought that the boring parts of coasters can be interesting too!
I built a magnetic braking system for a K'Nex roller coaster as both a hobby and academic project. It is fully automatic and is an add-on to the trains I created in the past. My braking system uses a set of magnetic eddy current brakes to slow the train enough to coast onto wheels in the track. The project took six months to complete and opened the doors for a couple future projects I’ve begun working on.
Chapters:
0:0 Intro
01:32 The Project
03:32 How Magnetic Brakes Work
07:15 Braking the Trains
09:10 Braking the Track
12:16 The Braking System
13:38 Electronics and Mechatronics
21:20 The Finished Project
For more technical details pertaining to the technical details of how eddy currents work I suggest watching this video by Electroboom:
• The Amazing Eddy Current
I also used an article titled "Design of an Eddy Current Brake System for the Use of Roller Coasters Based on a Human Factors Engineering Approach" written by Adam L. Yanagihara and Yong Seok Park. You can read this article here:
publications.waset.org/100111...
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