Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator at Tschumi Pavilion / Groningen
Channel: Niklas Roy
Date: 2014-07-03

The "Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator" is installed at the Tschumi Pavilion in Groningen / The Netherlands. The apparatus contains 1000 black sponge balls, which are sucked through 150m of transparent pneumatic tubes with the power of a normal household vacuum cleaner. Visitors can operate the machine with a touch sensor: They can change the direction of the airflow and watch the balls speed up, slow down and turn around. The balls reach a top speed of about 4m/s.

You can read more about the project on my website: http://www.niklasroy.com/project/174/PSBA

I also sucked a little spy camera through the pipes and recorded the result. You can find that video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZGqPUiq8s

And here's the original music, produced by Kava Kon:
http://www.soundcloud.com/nelstruesdell/kava-kon-zombie