no it won't work, ever that's basic physics, and one of the first question to physic student "why this kind of machine can't work ? " short statement "perpetual movement can't work because of the thermodynamical principle" with addition "since the time these machines are in the books, if they can work, somebody surely had made one work, but it never happened", third: if you can make one working your are the next nobel prize in physic and the future multi billonnaire at the end of the year

I made one, and it worked in outerspace, I started the whole thing spinning, and last I checked it hasnt stopped.

Thanks for all your comments and insights to why this one doesn't work! My next project will be making the other version of overbalanced wheel with arms knocking down along one direction to make it spin. Maybe I'll have more success on that one?

More weight = more friction to overcome and back to square one. Fact is there is always friction. The only time these machines work is in a perfect vacuum with a perfect surface where contact is made and neither of these is achievable. Even if it was it would never be able to drive anything as that draws energy and it is not producing energy, just holding onto what it was originally given. think of them as a momentum capacitor. That is of course if they could be made in the first place.

This being said there is one place where you will find the closest to a perpetual motion machine and that is an electron spinning around an atom.

It's a cool desk toy, but can never possibly work. It's not a matter of tweaking anything, it's just that it would break the laws of thermodynamics if it works. The torque due to the balls is zero on average, so the end result is just a pretty wheel that slows down.

It will never work but it's a beautiful design, well done!

Just so you know, everything in that video is a fake/illusion. None of them are actually working on their own. If you'll notice the opening screen says "Visual Education" and the description/title says "Hypothetical". They built all those devices with motors in them just to visually teach people how they are intended to work.

As far as the over-balanced wheel goes, I like the idea behind, and the theory is pretty good, but I think even in a frictionless environment I still don't think it would work because even though the weights are farther out on the left side, hence providing more leverage to turn the wheel, there are more weights on the right side, balancing out the leverage from the left. That's my theory anyways.

hmm it might be that the white pieces need more weight, thats about all i can think of. The video is very convincing but some of the stuff seems to run suspiciously smooth a times so who knows.

You've gotta mount it in a box with a small motor inside. Have that wired to a free energy generator and then boom it will run perpetually! Of course you have to wire the free energy generator to a perpetual motion device so that it can run your perpetual motion device. Obviously you need two of these prints working in tandem. And then you need to wire that to a free energy generator.....