The Trickshot Machine 🏓 (w/

​‪@joelsinventions‬ and I met up for a week to put together this insane machine themed around the idea of launches. We managed to put 5 different launches into this machine, all while also including some other really awesome tricks. I hope you guys enjoy!

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MACHINE STATS:
Time taken to build: 5 days with Joel (8/14-8/18), 3 weeks alone to finish building, then test and film
Number of fails: 262 "real" fails, 528 if you include the times I missed the beginning shot :(
Favorite tricks: Sliding blocks, double tube trick
Most failed trick: Tilting & sliding tiles
Most frustrating trick: Backwards K'nex launcher

Joel and I had a ton of fun building this machine together. It was the first time I had ever had someone over to my building area, so it was a lot of fun building there with someone else for a change. We decided that we would just build for the 5 days that he was here, instead of trying to film it and get it to work. That allowed us to get a lot of really cool tricks done, although it did leave me with a lot of work to do after he left, which was super stressful because I had to leave for college at the end of August. The machine never actually worked before I left. Luckily, I only live about an hour and 15 minutes away from my school, so I was able to come back home on the weekend of September 9th to keep trying. It ended up working at around 1:30 AM Saturday night (technically Sunday morning...)
We decided to theme the machine around launches because I just got a set of Bing Bang Bounce launchers. (https://www.vat19.com/item/bing-bang-.... When I was at Lily's studio the week before, I noticed she had a set of them, so I got to play around with them quite a bit, and I fell in love. They are so easy to trigger, but they are so accurate. They're also adjustable and very powerful, so they are extremely versatile in machines. We ended up using three of these launchers in the machine; the other two launches were from a K'nex contraption powered by a rubber band, and a pair of wire cutters. Surprisingly, most of the fails in this machine did not come from the launchers, although the K'nex one was definitely the least reliable.
There are actually a lot of tricks in this machine that you might assume were made by one person, but were actually made by the other. I'm interested to see people's guesses about who made what, so feel free to leave those predictions in the comments! :)
This was also the first video I edited with my new video editor, Adobe Premiere Pro. Since I'm now a student, I get a pretty sizable discount on the Adobe Suite (around $250 annually instead of around $1000 annually) so I'll be using that for the next four years (at least...?) Feels so good to finally move away from the increasingly glitchy PowerDirector!

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