Chain Reactions 🌀 Centrifugal Force (w/

I've built a few tricks in the past that feature centrifugal force, but it's still a super under-explored genre of machine trick with a lot of potential for awesome tricks, so I wanted to see what kind of things I could come up with! And who better to team up with than ‪@TheContraptionKing‬, one of my favorite machine builders!

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Centrifugal force is a really cool concept, and it felt like such an unexplored realm of chain reaction art, yet it was still surprisingly difficult to think of ideas! But what ended up being the most reliable way of coming up with stuff was by combining centrifugal force with one other common machine element, like "Centrifugal Force + Gears" or "Centrifugal Force + Domino Line". The other challenge with this theme is that centrifugal force is most commonly seen in only two orientations: horizontal ("merry-go-round style") and vertical ("ferris wheel style"). I tried to be mindful of having a good balance in my clips between the two, and I'm happy that I succeeded: there are three horizontal orientations. and two vertical orientations. And I'm pleased with the amount of variety in the clips as well; the first two clips I built were the Swinging Bridge and Centrifugal Gears, both of which were horizontally oriented, and used the same board. But after that, I did a few vertically-oriented ones, including a more acrobatic spectacle one, and one where the spinning board rolls instead of rotating in place. And I finished off the project with a large clip with a lot of steps.
This collaboration has been in progress for quite a while, actually! I started my first clip (Swinging Bridge) back in February, but it got put on hold because of Domino Masters Machine, my collab with Joel (Machineland), and the Sylvania project (Book-Opening Machine). Eventually, I was able to get back to finishing up my clips during June. Very happy for people to finally see this video, we've been waiting a while!

CLIP LIST:
Centrifugal Lock (0:18) - 25 fails, 2 days
Unwrapping Box (0:46) - 25 fails, 3 days
Swinging Bridge (1:08) - 7 fails, 4 days
Centrifugal Gears (1:23) - 22 fails, 4 days
Spinning Sorting System (1:44) - 95 fails (221 including bad throws), 3 days

CLIP STATS:
Most fails: Spinning Sorting System (95 fails, 221 including bad throws)
Fewest fails: Swinging Bridge (7 fails)
Most frustrating during building: Centrifugal Pulleys (so frustrating, in fact, that it was never completed and was scrapped altogether!)
Most frustrating during testing: Spinning Sorting System
Most fun: Unwrapping Box
Favorite: Unwrapping Box
Longest Build Time: Swinging Bridge & Centrifugal Gears (both 4 days)
Quickest Build Time: Centrifugal Lock (2 days)

MUSIC:
Mendum - Nightstuck
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