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Re:The slinky machine: a slinky escalator by leni536 on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:46AM (#10047965)
> If a slinky slinks, and nobody is watching, does it matter?

Man, asking all the hard questions. It reminds me of the "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" question. Maybe you could live stream it though.

Also note that there are juggling machines that are stable without any active control [1]. Designing a self stabilizing slinky escalator could be really hard though (if not impossible).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj36Z5ZIC6Q

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Re:The slinky machine: a slinky escalator by violentvinyl on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @10:53AM (#10048005)
There is another video on his YouTube channel where he talks about design considerations to make the Slinky slink more reliably.

Also, Hi Matthias! I'm a big fan of your YouTube videos, it's really great to see one make it to HN (even if it wasn't linked directly to you).

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