Ball release mechanism

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On Halloween, COVID-19 could be more dangerous than the creepy clowns and skeleton spiders combined. A news story showed a candy slide - allowing the candy giver to remain a safe distance from the chocolate-craving goblins and princesses at the end of the sidewalk. Since I'm one to always make things more complicated than they need to be, I'm designing one that's over-the-top, with candy plaed in 2" vending machine capsules so it can bounce through multiple stages of pipes and platforms before being received at the other end. There's no reason this design couldn't be resized and used for anything you want released one-at-a-time - a marble run, baseball pitching machine, mini golf, hamster ball vending machine, or whatever you like. The input & output pipes can be independently resized, and you can set an angle between the two. I may upload another version in the near future to clean up the OpenSCAD code & allow for more customization - let me know if there's anything you want to see! I'd love to see your prints and what you build with this - have a safe & spooky Halloween!