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| − | I just had a biiiiiilliiiiiooon dollar idea for you fountian. A solid state ball bearing conveyor!!! Based on a rail gun, we may be able to roll balls up hill using electromagneticism!! That way the noise could be perpetual. Thoughts?
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| − | Well, if you want to go ahead with this, the idea is yours to incorporate. You have bearings, you have batteries, now all we need is a long, rigid anode and cathode pair (copper tubes?) on which the bearings will roll. Hopefully it provides more force than gravity and friction on a ballbearing rolling up a 30 degree, metal slope.
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| − | ==Steel Fountain==
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| − | (Lee Sonko)
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| − | A fountain that shoots steel balls into the air by means of a magnetic linear accelerator. The balls are caught in a trough surrounding the fountain. They flow down to be shot up again.
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| − | Inspiration is drawn from many places including the round xylophone [http://www.animusic.com/images/vids/pipe-1.jpg here], [http://www.atomfilms.com/film/animusic_pipedream.jsp video] ([http://www.animusic.com/dvd-info-clips-1.html more]), and Arthur Ganson's [http://www.arthurganson.com/pages/sculpture%20image%20pages/Ball%20chain%20page.html Machine with Ball Chain], and a sense that an automatic steel ball cannon would be fucking awesome. Update: [http://www.anothercoilgunsite.com coil guns] need to recharge their capacitors between firing... 1 second per shot is very fast. But mechanical means are still an option!
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| − | (jfoote adds) A bigger version of this? [[Image:Electricbbcannonme4.jpg|thumb]]
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| − | [http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/12/electricbbcannonme4.jpg centrifugal BB shooter]
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| − | Or how about a pitching-machine type action?
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