I think instead I’d design it to clean a single ball at a time, continuously. Smaller footprint and less infrastructure involved. Dunno how many hours it’d take to turn around a lot of the ball pit but anything is better than nothing?
I figured it was a cleanable bucket conveyor, so it’s getting continuously cleaned. That’s how you do it with some processes, like conveyors for bottling liquids
As a kid I went to a large indoor ball pit once where they had something like that, but they had the outputs hooked up to marble runs and ball cannons. It would also filter out any broken balls. I don’t know how long it took to cycle through all the balls, because this place was absolutely massive. Probably millions of balls.
Interesting and if purely gravity fed would be safe during working hours and could scale horizontally. The only problem I see is confirming all balls were cleaned and not like the same 20 balls cleaned 20 times a day…
Wait just had a great/horrible idea… Wave pool of balls in a ball pit. Suck balls on one side, shoot balls out other side. The balls are constantly washed and returned but creates a wave/swimming like sensation
I think instead I’d design it to clean a single ball at a time, continuously. Smaller footprint and less infrastructure involved. Dunno how many hours it’d take to turn around a lot of the ball pit but anything is better than nothing?
Also need to clean the pit itself or any new clean balls will just be chucked right into the piss and drinks puddle at the bottom
I figured it was a cleanable bucket conveyor, so it’s getting continuously cleaned. That’s how you do it with some processes, like conveyors for bottling liquids
As a kid I went to a large indoor ball pit once where they had something like that, but they had the outputs hooked up to marble runs and ball cannons. It would also filter out any broken balls. I don’t know how long it took to cycle through all the balls, because this place was absolutely massive. Probably millions of balls.
Well, at least we know we can still go on Lemmy for human interaction - appreciate the effort put into the drawing.
Glad you appreciate! It is neither good nor high effort, but it’s a real drawing made with a real pencil
Interesting and if purely gravity fed would be safe during working hours and could scale horizontally. The only problem I see is confirming all balls were cleaned and not like the same 20 balls cleaned 20 times a day…
Wait just had a great/horrible idea… Wave pool of balls in a ball pit. Suck balls on one side, shoot balls out other side. The balls are constantly washed and returned but creates a wave/swimming like sensation
Hence the input and output being on the opposite sides? But yeah it definitely wouldn’t be perfect. But it doesn’t need to be perfect?
Ooooo wave ball pool sounds sick
Take your design, make 100 of them , input on right, output on left, make users sign waivers cause it might be dangerous…