How I Designed the Mechanical Ping Pong Sculpture

Proudly Presenting: Corporate Ping Pong This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating flair, but not very much actually getting accomplished. It is a kinetic sculpture made up of many moving parts. The pingpong balls are lifted with a 12 way geneva mechanism, which is timed to drop a ball into the launcher scoop every 10 seconds. This is coupled to the archimedes spiral cam via a chain and sprocket, which charges the plunger mechanism with elastic potential energy. At the end of the cam, the plunger is released, popping the ball into the air for a brief moment of excellence, before making its way back into the queue, only to do it again. If you would like to support the creation of more engineered art, here are a few ways to do so (thanks so much): Patreon: JBV Creative Premium STLs: