Tuesday, August 10, 2010

My Bio (Non-stop Machines)

Non-stop Machines



    I am very fascinated with different sciences, with technology, with the things that are built to aid the needs of the society.

    I was in my high school when I started building prototypes of the things that fascinate me.

    My brother used to buy reading materials (he reads a lot, likewise, he needs it for some additional knowledge that he could gain since he is representing the school on some academic quiz school competition). During my elementary years, my classmate (Rowena) and my brother (Chris) usually represent our school in this kind of competition (my classmate later on became our class valedictorian and eventually my brother as his class’ valedictorian as well).

    One of the magazines that my brother had captured my interest (if I’m not mistaken, that particular issue of the magazine had “The Incredible Hulk” actors featured in it as well, Lou Ferrigno the Hulk himself and Bill Bixby as Dr. David Bruce Banner).

    There was one section of the magazine that discusses about this search and development for non-stop machines. I was amazed knowing such things. I even made a prototype of one of those ideas. I picked to make the non-stop wheel powered by balls since I was curious with the mechanism behind the idea.

    In my amazement, I even studied the mechanics and the dynamics of the concept to the point where I did a lot of experiments. I tried different kinds of balls material (e.g. marbles, metal balls, and plastic balls) to test what is the best in keeping the machine to spin continuously. I also tried to make some adjustments on the position and angles of the ramps as well.
    Sad to say that the wheel idea is not truly a non-stop machine, and so as the other ideas listed in that magazine since that time some of the fundamental negative factors (like friction and gravity, although gravity plays a positive factor as well) are the fundamental obstacles why non-stop machine can’t be a non-stop machine.
    Being optimistic though, I think it is still possible to build a non-stop machine. It’s only a matter of using more of the positive factors to counter the negative factors.


    ....and I have some idea of it.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Roger, how about yr non-stop machine project? could u share it?

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