Hi, This is Yosuke. What a wonderful mechanism! I am one of those who have been inspired by your work. I am very honored that you have shed new light on my work in this way.
Hi Yosuke, welcome, thank you. I feel honored by your response. Happy that we could close the (Algo)loop of mutual inspirations. Thank you again for those fun times in Kanazawa!
My idea for improving the crossings it to use more consistent and heavier balls maybe steel balls. I'm pretty sure the light weight and uneven surface of the 3D-printed balls are big contributing factors for the misfires.
¡Muchas gracias por tus amables y alentadoras palabras!
8 месяцев назад
This reminds me of the old PC game "Psychoballs". There an endless stream of balls/marbles of different colours comes in and rolls along tracks and you have to rotate components with 4 slots for marbles and exchange the marbles between them to get them sorted by colour.
If the marbles can shake around inside, there will be more misfires. So you can make their confined space more spherical, and make the up and down mechanism not shake as well.
You have seen my rounds of prototyping. My design is already much more stable than Ikeda's. I already use curved gutter, as you seem to suggest. Still, those misfires remain frequent. X-crossing are always a challenge, see also my Pachinko puzzle: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yu3iZDKutCM.html ...
I've been feeding some crows for years, and of course crows are famously smart and can solve some puzzles. It looks like something like this could be made to work. Maybe a simpler design/puzzle with a clear cover so they can see where the treats are, and then learn to move them around by pressing the buttons, and eventually get them to come out where they can claim their prizes. Your modular design suggests that maybe crows could first learn simple puzzles, and then we could add units to keep it challenging. What do you think about making puzzles for crows?
Oskar, zou je niet een keer een tentoonstelling willen hebben met je puzzels, je prototypes, etc? In het Modelspoormuseum in Sneek, bijvoorbeeld? Laat maar horen als je daarover zou willen brainstormen… Gr, Bert
