Hand-Cranked Machine Plays Catch with Itself

There ’s something that ’s oddly mesmerizing about see this mitt - cranked motorcar slice , drop and catch these small spherical rare dry land magnets one at a time . The picayune 5 mm formal attracter start out as a affiliated string , and are continuously fed through the contraption in a loop . As the video goes on , you get to see views from different angles as the formal are tossed around and the machine hands off each lilliputian silvery globule like it ’s play catch with itself .

The setup is wholly hand - built , created by inventor Dave Johnson for his father - in - law ’s seventy-fifth birthday . middling neat poppycock . I do n’t know how this affair would n’t grade any points in ol’ papa - in - law ’s eyes . [ Laughing Squid ]

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