How to build the perfect DIY air lottery ball draw machine you've always wanted

Need an air lottery ball machine? In this episode I show how I approached the task of making a homemade lottery machine including what I did and why. Other homemade lottery machines on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDk91I79wac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcPOPDxcLD8 Video this lottery machine was built for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RENAk99Y3c Playlist of other project overviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF577ECCB42D7D6A1 For a written transcript, see http://www.house-of-hacks.com/2013/12/how-to-make-air-lottery-ball-machine.html Music under Creative Commons License.

For some easily bought material and a few dollars you could make your own lottery barrel where the balls are blown into the air like their bigger brothers on tv.

Harley Pebley, presenter and DIY guy at House of Hacks talks about how the project started and how he built it:

"One Thursday a while ago, my buddy Rich gave me a call. He asked if I could build him a lottery machine. I told him, "yeah, I thought we probably could do something."

Then he asked if he could have it by Monday. It turns out he was responsible for organizing an event that had a limited number of slots. Of course they had more people interested in attending than they had slots available and he needed to some sort of drawing.

He thought a corny, 70s style video would kind of spice it up. Make it a bit more interesting than just pulling names out of a hat and reading them..."

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RELATED: Other homemade lottery machines on YouTube suggested by Harley:

• The first one I found. So-so performance.

• A more complicated but better operating one.