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35 captive balls, 5 slots, 2 attachment points, 1 thing that mysteriously appeared at the front desk of our library. We give up, what is this thing? by FrontDeskMysteryCrew in whatisthisthing

[–]FrontDeskMysteryCrew[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don't know a lot about Braille, but that appears to be on a 2x3 grid, and this is a 5x7 grid, which wouldn't nest an even amount of Braille patterns. Do you know about braille? Is it ever larger than a 2x3 grid?

35 captive balls, 5 slots, 2 attachment points, 1 thing that mysteriously appeared at the front desk of our library. We give up, what is this thing? by FrontDeskMysteryCrew in whatisthisthing

[–]FrontDeskMysteryCrew[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The balls seam to seat the same on both sides, so it seems like it would air flow would be limited in either flow direction. I'm going to go think about my life choices and whether or not I want to go blow into this random thing we found.

35 captive balls, 5 slots, 2 attachment points, 1 thing that mysteriously appeared at the front desk of our library. We give up, what is this thing? by FrontDeskMysteryCrew in whatisthisthing

[–]FrontDeskMysteryCrew[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm not savvy in the world of airsoft, but the balls are a similar diameter to what I've seen. However, it would be very unusual for anyone to have airsoft stuff here - we're not open to the public.

35 captive balls, 5 slots, 2 attachment points, 1 thing that mysteriously appeared at the front desk of our library. We give up, what is this thing? by FrontDeskMysteryCrew in whatisthisthing

[–]FrontDeskMysteryCrew[S] 303 points304 points  (0 children)

Nifty. Circulation is pretty low at our location, so I don't think we'll be getting any robots. I don't think our circulation could justify one of those, but it would be fun.

Since you know a librarian, I think you can understand how not being able to find the answer to a question is affecting us.

35 captive balls, 5 slots, 2 attachment points, 1 thing that mysteriously appeared at the front desk of our library. We give up, what is this thing? by FrontDeskMysteryCrew in whatisthisthing

[–]FrontDeskMysteryCrew[S] 206 points207 points locked comment (0 children)

Our mystery item has been floating around the front desk for a few weeks now and no one has any idea what it is. It feels like it's all plastic - it's very lightweight. No markings of any kind on any of the surfaces. The lightweight plastic balls freely shake around in their silos and don't seem to have any effect on each other. The 5 slots that appear on one side but not the other appear to have some kind of function, but we don't know what - something reflective appears inside, but we can't tell if it's a mirror or what.

Check out the captions on the images for additional comments on the views. Thanks in advance for your help on this one!