Archives: 2007 April

I was pretty pleased with the results of the animated GIF file in my previous post on this subject. I like the visualization of what is happening with the magnetic fields as the ball approaches the barrel of the solenoid. And a numerical table that I had output confirmed what I had read […]

Wow! It looks like I’m not the only one who’s been playing with Ping Pong Balls. A few intrepid adventurers visited my blog and viewed the YouTube video of my ping pong ball prototype RBS. A couple of the good folks over at the RollingBallScuptures group wrote back with suggestions and comments […]

Wandering back and forth over the web I’ve found all manner of Rolling Ball Sculptures. The clever variations on the theme are limited only by the imagination of the creators.
However, undertaking the construction of a full size RBS can be a daunting undertaking. You need welding equipment (and skills!), a modestly equipped metalworking […]

The first time I can remember being stopped in my tracks by a Rolling Ball Sculpture, or RBS, was not that long ago. I was visiting the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia as a way of passing some time on a Friday. Just like every other kid growing up in America, I was told […]

In the search for mirthful and magical ways to make music, I ran across an interesting article about a small coil gun. The author has written a piece up about making the coil gun using pretty simple components [discovered via the kind folks at Hackaday] which I found most instructive.
This got me thinking about […]

Welcome to Making Mirth!
I’ve spent the last two days getting lots of images ready for this site, and thinking about all the many things that I’d like to blog about. And of course, lots of decisions to be made before even beginning to capture a single real iota of content - things like […]