The Pink and Green Domino Machine

myminifactory

Who enjoys knocking down dominoes? Yeah!!!!!!\r\nWho likes setting up dominoes to be knocked down? Boo!!!!!!\r\nWho loves pink and green? Granddaughters, grandsons, nieces, nephews - you get the picture...\r\nIf your family is like ours (we love knocking dominoes down, but can't stand setting dominoes up to be knocked down), then "The Pink and Green Domino Machine" might just be the solution for you too! Our kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, and other family members adore this little pink and green domino dispensing machine, and we hope you and yours do as well!\r\n"The Pink and Green Domino Machine" is a "domino" dispensing machine. While it doesn't dispense commercial dominoes (well, not with much success - the tolerances for commercial dominoes are not quite "standardized"), it does dispense 3D printed dominoes in this design on almost any smooth, flat surface with 1-inch leading edge to leading edge spacing. If you have a steady hand and good aim, adding dominoes to the rack while "The Pink and Green Domino Machine" is in motion will keep it dispensing dominoes until you run out of 3D printed dominoes, hit an obstacle, or the batteries deplete! It misses on occasion, so patience and close attention to the off switch are required at times. But with practice, you'll find yourself building very long strings of dominoes with ease.\r\nAfter seeing Mathias Wandel's "Lego domino row building machine" (https://woodgears.ca/domino/index.html - he's an excellent woodworker, check out his site), I decided to design, 3D print, and assemble my own version so that I would be much less likely to forget how to put it back together if I dropped it or if the youngsters got a hold of it (20 or so printed pieces as opposed to hundreds)! If you're a Lego enthusiast, build his design as it is very impressive! But if you're a 3D printing enthusiast, then this thing might be for you!\r\nVideo of prototype here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K12tqdOb0f0.\r\n\r\nVideo of prototype without "Canopy.stl", "Rack.stl", and "Domino.stl" which better illustrates the mechanism is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT916TMgEgs.\r\n\r\nDesigned using Sketchup Make 2016 and printed on an Ultimaker 2 Extended.