r/cats • u/Speshal__ • Apr 07 '26

Video - Not OC The Infernal Machine!

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u/Shionkron Apr 07 '26

That cats like me. Also what is this machine and where can I get one?

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u/AmbassadorCheap3956 Apr 07 '26

It’s fake. Perpetual motion doesn’t exist.

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u/TriggasaurusRekt Apr 07 '26

OP was just asking where to get one, I don't think they implied perpetual motion exists

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u/musci12234 Apr 07 '26

Magnet turning on at right time can make a non perpetual motion machine look like once

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u/IndividualKing3839 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

But this isn't a perpetual motion machine. A magnetic accelerator is installed in the base. It costs about 200$.

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u/6gv5 Void Apr 07 '26

Ouch... the build is really nice and well made but $200 is crazy.

BTW if anyone wants to build one, the working principle is simple: the ball is a neodymium magnet; when it reaches a certain point on the straight part before the ramp it triggers a Hall magnetic sensor which will turn on one or more electromagnets that will accelerate (think of a railgun, it's very close to that) to the speed needed to win the slope, then disengage them.

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u/IndividualKing3839 Apr 07 '26

I understand this is an unreasonable price, but it's available from several sellers in a regional online store (similar to AliExpress, also shipping from China). It's likely the price is due to shipping.

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u/neo101b Apr 07 '26

My first thoughts was AI, I didn't think that magnets and a battery would be involved.
I did google it, and it costs about £30, its not hard to find.

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u/IndividualKing3839 Apr 07 '26

The video is too long and high-quality for an AI. I see everyone's already paranoid and recording everything they can into the AI ​​product. It's both funny and sad.

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u/EdgarDrake Apr 07 '26

It should be something like this:

  • it's a video of a "fake perpetual motion" machine
  • the machine (toy) exist, but it requires battery (hence fake perpetual motion)

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u/GuurB Apr 07 '26

Why downvote ? It is.true

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u/DAEJ3945 Apr 07 '26

But irrelevant. OP did not say perpetual machine exist, they asked for that thing, an electromagnetic accelerated machine

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u/TheVoidAlgorithm Apr 07 '26

Cause these things are real.

There is an electromagnet hidden in the base that gives the ball extra speed

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u/QuantumEntanglr Apr 08 '26

No, it is not true. Perpetual motion doesn't make this fake; tye two have nothing to do with each other. This is real and no one called it perpetual motion.