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The Octo-Bouncer: Advanced Bouncing Patterns

Roughly three months have passed since I wrote my initial post about a machine I call “The Octo-Bouncer.” What has happend since then? In this post I talk about what parts of the machine were updated. Why they were updated and what kind of stuff the machine is able to do thanks to these updates.

The Octo-Bouncer

I started thinking about ball juggling machines in the year 2015. I wrote about my first few attempts at creating them in this blog post from the year 2017. In 2018 I wrote another post about my then newest build. We’re now in the year 2020. And finally, the quest to get a machine to juggle a ping pong ball reliably has come to an end (as this current build is able to keep the ball bouncing for hours.)