Electromagnet + Rubber balls filled with metal = Awesome

[Jax Strife]

Fucking love Magnets

[MightyMax]

was expecting some super-balls with a little metal ball bearing in it and they were flinging them around with a giant magnet. Was very disappointed.

[editline]15th May 2011[/editline]

especially since it's cgi too.

[Bletotum]

fake or not I want to know if its possible

[ica|kvantum]

I don't care if it is fake. It looked cool.

[dai]

[QUOTE=Bletotum;29836047]fake or not I want to know if its possible[/QUOTE]

the concept is interesting; individually controlled mini electro magnets underneath a major electromagnet that's working at a low power, you could ideally- provided the moderately complex control provided by proprietary software- increase the output of each ball's magnetism until it raises to the right point.

Unfortunately, that would have to be dynamically controlled based on height, meaning when in the box they need high magnetism to catch into the main field, but as they get closer, the same amount of power would just suck them smack into the major magnet.

The devices would need shielded and exceedingly accurate altimeters to dynamically increase or decrease magnetism in cooperation with the computer-controlled input, unless somehow you have accurate enough estimations of acceleration out of the box to deceleration at the correct height.

The only other explanation for the balls hovering and floating in proper patterns is that, when magnetised, they clump together hard enough to provide counter-weight and rope it down to the ground. I'm not sure, but the additional magnetic resonance coming in from the large magnet would probably cause all of the connected balls to increase in magnetism and lift up anyways, clumping up toward the center of the disk like you'd expect of old scraps of metal on a working electromagnetic junkyard crane.

least, that's my guess. I'm no rocket surgeon here.

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=daijitsu;29859432]
The only other explanation for the balls hovering and floating in proper patterns is that, when magnetised, they clump together hard enough to provide counter-weight and rope it down to the ground. I'm not sure, but the additional magnetic resonance coming in from the large magnet would probably cause all of the connected balls to increase in magnetism and lift up anyways, clumping up toward the center of the disk like you'd expect of old scraps of metal on a working electromagnetic junkyard crane.[/QUOTE]

That's what I figured, the weight of the balls all stuck together from the magnet was pulling them down and they could just dial in the electromagnet to fight back against gravity just enough to make them hover