Here is the in-depth video. Enjoy!

Awesome work and bravo getting it manufactured. I hope you sell a lot of them.

chrisb wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 3:33 pm Faster! Faaster! Faaaster! (It's great!).

It can go much faster. I mapped the throttle inputs to only go up to 50% max, and I still had them set below 50% (so 25% really) for this video. It's way overpowered.

Okay, let's try this instead.

Switching the servo motion actually worked really well. Here's a video of the 95% complete device. I'll still post an in-depth one on YouTube later once it's 100% complete. (Video is public, so hopefully there are no issues viewing it.)

https://www.facebook.com/24414912/video ... 650102729/

I did the first successful tests yesterday. It was a lot of fun. I need to tweak the design in a few places to get it working reliably, though: Lower incline angle for the chute. As it is now, I can't pitch it up more than a few degrees with the tripod, because then the balls roll over the release f...

howetuft wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:38 pm Amazing! What rendering engine did you select for your renderings?

Thanks! I used povray for rendering. It was quite easy to just set the face color of the objects, add them to the project in the Render workbench, and press go.

Would like to see it finished. Perhaps even with a movie in action. I'll definitely make a detailed video when it's all done. In the meantime, here is a test I did a couple weeks ago after I finished the launcher and chute. This was before the base and wiring were done, so I used an R/C transmitter...

Thanks, Chris. I've had a lot of fun working on it so far. By the way, the new (to me anyway) Render workbench is very nice and convenient. Here are a couple pictures of the simplified hopper design. It will attach to the chute with some magnets for ease of removal. The servo in the hopper will rota...

That's cool. I assume it is 3D printed? Is it hard to get used to typing that way?