requirement to hone up your ping pong skills? nobody to play with? That’s okay, you might always develop a difficult drive powered ping pong sphere launcher!
[Vendel Miskei] must like 3D modeling. He’s drawn up his entire job in some type of 3D CAD program (the structures look vaguely like Sketchup?). It makes utilize of two HDDs, a computer power supply, a lot of PVC pipe, a microwave synchronous motor, as well as an overhead light projector!
In order for the difficult drives to grip the ping pong balls, it appears like [Vendel] eliminated all however one of the platters, then glued some foam to it, as well as what appears like the rubber from a table tennis paddle on top. He’s likewise made utilize of the original difficult drive situation by cutting the end off to subject half of the platter. It seems to be quite effective!
The overhead light projector is really just utilized as a practical weighted mean the entire project. The recycled microwave motor indexes the spheres in a bucket, enabling for a big number of spheres to be queued up! Stick around after the break to see a few of the incredible 3D renderings of the project, as well as the actual table tennis robot playing a game with its master!
[Thanks for the tip Paul!]