A Short History of My Ball Machines

April 14, 2014September 2, 2014 / knextus / 2 Comments

Updated 6/23/2014

I love to build K’nex ball machines, and I have been building them for a few years. Here is a list of some that I have built.

Ball Machine in the Dining Room: Never Finished

Crazy Moment: Never Finished
Crazy Double: Finished. It was a combination of a Big Ball Factory set and a Trampoline Tower set. I connected them with tubes from the Big Air Ball Tower set.
Trampoline Factory: Finished

X-Tower: Finished (See this post)
Grid Machine: Finished (See this post)
Grid Tower: Finished (Only took me about a week to build)

I think Ball Machine in the Dining Room was my tallest ball machine for around two years. Then came Grid Machine which beat my record. Grid Machine almost touches the ceiling. The highest point on Grid Machine is 1 1/2 inches from the ceiling.

-Knextus

X-Tower

April 14, 2014July 20, 2014 / knextus / 1 Comment

X-Tower

This is one of my K’nex ball machines.

I call it X-Tower because from the top, the main structure looks like an X.

It has 8 Paths: Path 1, Path 2, Path 3, Path 4, Path 5, Path 6, Path 7, and Path 8. It has 5 Networks: Network 1, Network 2, Network 3, Network 4, and Network 5.

Thanks to SandroKnexmaster and KneXtreme for their element designs.

Below is the video:

-Knextus