For details about the process of making the machine visit: www.timhunkin.com/a162_nuclear-arm.htm I find that writing down the process is a way of letting go of a project so I can move onto the next one.
@thomasdurant79072 жыл бұрын
That licence certificate tho...
@CARLiCON2 жыл бұрын
I've never been to England, but if i ever get the opportunity, seeing your machines in person will be first on my list
@grooeygroo2 жыл бұрын
His two arcades are totally worth a visit, all the machines are hilarious and charming.
@OmegaSparky2 жыл бұрын
I recently had the pleasure of playing this game, I mean loading the reactor in London. I completely loaded the reactor but it thought I needed to do more so I dropped my second fuel pellet on purpose. But I didn't get my nuclear waste to dispose of properly. Oh well. Loads of fun and a beautiful piece. Definitely going to do it again next time I'm in town.
@CAW784 ай бұрын
I live in the USA and was able to visit the London arcade last month. I LOVED this machine. It was so clever, well designed, challenging, and FUN! Great machine!
@holograph202 жыл бұрын
Brilliant machine Tim, It combines all the elements of a great game --- mechanics, electronics and comedy :-)
@toddc56192 жыл бұрын
I'd be interested to see how the game resets itself!
@hayd73712 жыл бұрын
So many design challenges would have to have been overcome.
@ChrisShucksmith2 жыл бұрын
My guess is that the lid acts as a 'scoop' to flip the fuel back into the box. You can see the folded metal chute to direct dropped fuel into the lid. The box lid runs on a shaft to off screen, this is probably dual purpose: eccentric weighted to ensure once cracked open it falls back fully to the set collecting point, and driven to close the lid once game over. The final piece to the puzzle will be a set of cylinders mounted behind the fuel rod holes on a plate that sweeps froward at the end of the game to clear out any placed by the player so that they fall down. They are then handled the same as dropped ones. Probably the green LEDs and presence detectors (IR perhaps) are on the end of these cylinders as well. Would be interested to see behind the scenes!
@SoloRenegade2 жыл бұрын
that was my first thought too
@ChrisShucksmith2 жыл бұрын
I've watched in a bit more detail - I don't think this is the case. Looks like the *lid* and *box* are two separate parts. The lid resets from the shaft driving it, but then I think the entire box lowers down. The ramps keep the fuel pressed against the sides of the box until the box lowers to be below the chute, then the pallets fall into the box by gravity. The box then raises back up to re-join the lid. Very nice design. Probably the same cylinder does both actions, and the rising action flips the lid closed.
@tomclanys2 жыл бұрын
Just as someone suggested, looking how far down the box goes and how high the bottom of it is, I think the game resets by pushing all the pellets out from behind, they fall to the ramp and then the bottom of the box goes down and collects the pellets
@mikepurdy17382 жыл бұрын
That was tense!
@dwbunloaf82452 жыл бұрын
Great game, your inventiveness of your creations never ceases to amaze me!
@TheFLOMAN762 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Gives you a sense of fear and dread once the game gets going! Your intent is amazingly built!
@MrCarlsonsLab2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Tim! One has to wonder the flavor of the candies :^)
@paulmendelsohn55622 жыл бұрын
You've raised the bar and set the standard for interacting with machines. Awesome bravo.
@JackdeDuCoeur2 жыл бұрын
I would very much enjoy a collaboration between Tim Hunkin and Laurie Anderson - two geniuses of our day.
@maltreatedpony2 жыл бұрын
Love it. This wouldn't have been out of place in the Futuristic Zone of the Crystal Maze.
@WDCallahan2 жыл бұрын
I would love to have an arcade like this! I really enjoy your work.
@DanielNoblett11112 жыл бұрын
Tim Hunkin is a true mechanical artist. Your arcades are on my bucket list when I get over to England.
@Vickyvee972 жыл бұрын
I really would just go to England just to play in that arcade! I really miss the analog arcades.
@gregebert55442 жыл бұрын
I think I just found the perfect reason to visit the UK again; I absolutely MUST give this a try.
@ricknelson9472 жыл бұрын
Absolutely awesome Sir!!!
@edgeeffect Жыл бұрын
That's ACE... I used to love to play nuclear power plant when I was a kid... this would have been just perfect but I'd need to put plastic bags on my hands..... :)
@EJSchuman2 жыл бұрын
Very good game! And such a fun prize for causing a meltdown!
@mumblbeebee65462 жыл бұрын
Dear Tim, I have been watching your videos for a while now with great joy but this is so marvellous, it made me whoop with happiness! What a great idea, and how well implemented, I want one, I want it now! Congratulations, this is so good!
@AxelWerner2 жыл бұрын
AMAZING PRODUCT!!!!! What an incredible amount of time just to put together ONE of a kind. WOW!!!!!
@aidanstarke83032 жыл бұрын
Good video as always
@rickblackwell64352 жыл бұрын
These are great!
@markfryer98802 жыл бұрын
As I read the title while waiting for my internet to catch up (it's early evening, peak use time), I found myself wondering just how Tim would design this Arcade game and I figured that there would be some sort of remote control loading system. I didn't come up with a guess for the nuclear waste disposal system and was pleasantly surprised by Tim's boiled lolly solution. I get the impression that this could be a very popular machine. If it issued the Trained Operator Certificate then it could be even more fun as well as draw in more business when people get to read someone's mounted Certificate. This machine would also make for an interesting video as it combines multiple areas of machine/human interaction. Mark from Melbourne Australia
@andywoodward30972 жыл бұрын
I’m loving these game demo videos. Keep it up, please.
@grooeygroo2 жыл бұрын
I loved playing this at Novelty Automation, it was so well executed. It looked like a massively involved project.
@TheInevitableClyphe2 жыл бұрын
Super fun game, I like that the instruction screen becomes the game
@jagboy692 жыл бұрын
The 'ol gal did pretty damn good!
@michaeldemetriou13992 жыл бұрын
He is a legend.
@alexanderose28902 жыл бұрын
Amazing. This one might be the best of all.
@bigjd2k2 жыл бұрын
That is genius 😀 must visit your arcades soon!
@BrilliantDesignOnline2 жыл бұрын
Tim, Every bit of this is brilliant. I am not that familiar with the other machines, but this was thought out super good. How do you 'unload' the pellets back to the bin for a reset for the next 'engineer'? I would like to see similar shorts like this for every game. Hard for me in the USA to visit the pier in the UK :-) BTW, love the muster location; your sense of humor is the best.
@joe_g_2 жыл бұрын
There used to be a video showing it; it's a rather ingenious mechanism where the bottom half of the box drops down and collects the stray pellets -- you can see in the video how the floor is slanted towards the box to allow the pellets to collect
@samuelwarren68832 жыл бұрын
Tim, you're an inspiring inventor. Thank you for sharing your years of wisdom and advice! It's invaluable!
@jareknowak87122 жыл бұрын
Great idea Tim! 👍
@Seiskid2 жыл бұрын
This one is very clever. Loved it.
@hogshouse2 жыл бұрын
I loved playing this machine. I still have the sweet as well :-)
@reedreamer9518 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Wonderful machines!
@ThomasGabrielsen2 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@desmo750f12 жыл бұрын
Excellent. The reset must rate a video by itself. Is that in London, as a commenter said, or Southwold, as the escape map suggests?
@wojciechtaras2 жыл бұрын
Excellent !
@springwoodcottage42482 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Such fun while getting over important information, mustering on the moon was so unexpected & effective. Thank you for building!
@BrilliantDesignOnline2 жыл бұрын
And the impossibly rapidly scrolling disclaimer :-)
@jonnyhifi2 жыл бұрын
Superb on so many levels. Wow!
@thomasw61692 жыл бұрын
Absolutely awesome. Please can you make a video on how this machine is constructed? Ingenious!
@greenatom2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! Be sure to click the "making of" link in the description, it's definitely worthwhile.
@piconano2 жыл бұрын
The tick tock of the clock would drive me crazy.
@WhiteDieselShed2 жыл бұрын
Where have you been hiding? KZbin needs a slapped bottom for not showing me your channel sooner. Excellent channel and slightly jealous of your builds... :)
@gaveintothedarkness2 жыл бұрын
I would love a video behind the scenes on how this machine works.
@frogz2 жыл бұрын
i didnt know that roboform made forms for robots ;) love it tim, this is uniquely retrofutureism!
@frogz2 жыл бұрын
i am about to ride one of my creations 400 miles, wish me luck
@jareknowak87122 жыл бұрын
@@frogz Good Luck!
@Dukefazon2 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite!
@Braindouchedotnet2 жыл бұрын
Wait, what does nuclear waste taste like?!
@JCWren2 жыл бұрын
Chicken.
@Braindouchedotnet2 жыл бұрын
@@JCWren I deserved that.
@cromulence2 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic!
@PropellerSteve2 жыл бұрын
very good.Thanks for sharing.
@kevinv40442 жыл бұрын
Awesome machine!!
@unitedbolts80532 жыл бұрын
What a hell... Really awesome channel!!!!
@sportstackeroctober2531 Жыл бұрын
I finally completed this machine today!
@rustymotor2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@chadoftoons2 жыл бұрын
Feels like there is more of a reward for losing then winning here
@jareknowak87122 жыл бұрын
True!
@Big_Not_Good2 жыл бұрын
That's so cool!
@lo377ps2 жыл бұрын
T H E M A N I P U L A T O R !
@Ed_Stuckey Жыл бұрын
0:17 _THE NUCLEAR FAMILY_ I see what you did there...
@15743_Hertz2 жыл бұрын
When a mommy atom and a daddy atom love each other very much...
@eskibrew2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant 👏 I'd be interested to know how you swap between live video and the animations - is this something you can do with the PLC or something else 🤔
@EngineeringVignettes2 жыл бұрын
I want one.
@ericwilner14032 жыл бұрын
Great! I'd been wanting to see some of those machines in action, and going to visit them in person is not an option just now. Watching a flurry of new vids is so much more convenient.... One quibble: surely a reactor of such construction (built to allow easy ongoing swapping of fuel assemblies) would be meant to produce weapons-grade plutonium, so the fuel would be uranium, no?
@carpespasm2 жыл бұрын
Not in this case, since it's primarily made to create edible radioactive candy, and as you know plutonium candy doesn't taste as good.
@ericwilner14032 жыл бұрын
@@carpespasm Ah, right. For neutron activation of candy, a plutonium-fueled reactor makes sense.
@Satters2 жыл бұрын
muster station = moon LOL
@jhbonarius2 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the movie THX 1138
@MetProduct-td4rz Жыл бұрын
So let me guess after the practice, you get three chances to fill the reactor without dropping any fuel 1st Drop Amber Alert ( continue as normal ) 2nd Drop Red Alert ( radiation, shield deployed continue while Seeing the Screen ) 3rd Drop Critical Alarm ( Meltdown And Evacuation ) ( Game Over )
@troidesproject96312 жыл бұрын
Its must be fun
@ChrisR2 жыл бұрын
Tim do you still get the nuclear waste candy reward if you fill the reactor all the way?
@BaseandGlider Жыл бұрын
My dog hated this video. I enjoyed it
@patprop742 жыл бұрын
Knowing you Tim, it surely is mostly all made mechanically with pulleys and levers which in this day and age is a dying art.
@TheHectorOg2 жыл бұрын
Omg it's amazing 😍
@whirledpeas34772 жыл бұрын
Tsunami Warning ⚠️
@TibiGamer3DS10 ай бұрын
Really? The machine dispenses actual candy as "edible nuclear waste"?
@transkryption2 жыл бұрын
What about the Fast Breeder Champion Edition where you can burn say 98% of your fuel... The Pebble Bed II is really underrated, sure it generally lacks the life and death excitement of other game releases... But it's just too nice... Too easy most of the time... Shame people were put off by the difficulty of some of the other games.
@1977ajax Жыл бұрын
Didn't split any atoms, just the infinitive at the end. Tut tut.
@weaselbox67462 жыл бұрын
yesh!
@spookybaba2 жыл бұрын
Are you some kind of multi billionaire, Mr. Hunkin? You appear to have more time and money than most. Did you get those edible nuclear waste sweets made for you?