Great Ball Counter
by
XCLD
A counter made of 7-segment-displays that is easy to ready. Additionally it features a gauge showing the current ball flow (0 .. 60 bps) as well as a semaphore indicating if still balls are coming (white circle signal up) or no balls have been seen for more than 35 s (red square signal up).
Sources of inspiration:
- for the musical-box-like mechanism to push the segments: "DrDudeNL" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYkXqI5jlw)
- for the design of the segments: "ord" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvGzUWtm828)
- for the gate to separate the balls: Some uncredited GBCler on an exhibition where I have seen a YT-video of
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