PROJECTSTEEL BALL MACHINE
Steel Ball
Machine.
TU/e · DBB111 Creative Mechanical Design
January 2022
January 2022
OVERVIEW
A linkage of mechanisms that won't sit still.
Twenty-millimetre steel balls picked up, lifted, dropped, and looped back to the start by an Archimedes screw, a pivoting catch, a ramp, and a gravity return. Every joint was sketched on paper, cut on a band-saw, drilled with hand tools, and assembled in my dorm.
The brief was: build something that does a thing. Mine does one thing forever.
The brief was: build something that does a thing. Mine does one thing forever.
- Course
- DBB111 Creative Mechanical Design
- Institution
- TU/e · Industrial Design
- Type
- Individual project
- Duration
- ~6 weeks
- Finished
- January 2022
Significance
- Creative Mechanical Design
- Engineering
- Exact Constraint Design
- Fusion 360
- 3D Printing
- Laser Cutting
01IN MOTION
02BUILD
From bench to finished linkage.
03CAD
