Puzzle 38: Bit of a cheating solution with a gear on top of a crossover

[EllenMM]

I couldn’t figure out a way to physically arrange the pieces on the board in such a way that the 5th ball was captured without interfering with the rest of the functioning, so I cheated my way into it by putting a gear on top of a crossover to connect two bits that are on two sides of some other paths. It works! (But I figured there must be another way…)

Fun to find so many solutions here that did find an arrangement that works!

[EllenMM]

(Oh, and oops, in this picture the two controlling counter bits at the top are not correctly configured in the starting position. They should both be pointing to the left.)