Some time ago I started building a little ball throwing machine intended to entertain my dog.
I didn’t really finish it due to lack of time but here you can see what I ended up with:
More pictures and videos after the break!
The basic design is a conveyer belt driven by a geared motor. There’s a pin attached to the belt, which pulls back the slide.
As you can see, the conveyer belt is driven by a geared motor. Originally this was a cordless drill.
These are the rubber bands.
Make sure to watch the video, there’s a little interesting surprise at the end:
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So… beautiful… I must have one!
That's pretty cool.
Reaaaly cool stuff :DDD
mr nice guy…super stuff
Heh, stylish AND alot cheaper then one of those tennis thingys =p
Thats AWESOME man, can't belive you made that yourself and the robot arm was awesome as well
Dude you make the coolest frickin stuff
Hahaha thats fricking sweet man! keep the invetnions coming!!
Awesome stuff, I love this blog 🙂
That is really awesome!
nice stuff 😀
Wow nice, did you make this yourself?
And your dog would have loved you forever.
You did all this by yourself? That's amazing!
I mean, it's not too complicated a design, but it would've never occurred to me to do something like that.
Thanks a for sharing this, and I liked the arm at the end of the video!
I want one!
All I can say is: 'wow'. Astonishing piece of engineering. Looks very professional and actually… a bit 'military-grade'. I can't wait for your next invention : )
How do you do it?! I'm a little bit scared you'll invent a minituare nuclear warhead.
* miniature. D'oh!
Looks like it would get the job done, nice design.
Wonder how far it would throw =3
I bet that would be fun with some cherry bombs or smoke balls nice