Complex Marble Machine

Machines that do nothing yet are so cool and awesome.

Complex marble machine.

The flip flop from your marble machines inspired me to build this machine. For those who haven t seen the wintergarten marble machine it s a piano organ sized contraption made out of birch plywood some lego technic sets and 2 000 marbles. Subscribe for more https tinyu. I saw the wooden roller chain in a video by michael schultheiss it was a lot of work to make this chain but it runs without problems.

A version where marbles compete in a race to win is a called a marble race. A rube goldberg machine named after american cartoonist rube goldberg is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way usually these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices. The marble often bounced out of the machine so i added catch nets made of dowels. The action of each triggers the initiation of the next eventually resulting in achieving a stated goal.

Remember martin molin s marble machine x the mechanical musical rube goldberg machine that uses some 3 000 components and a hand turned crank to drop marbles in sequences onto acoustic and. A rolling ball sculpture sometimes referred to as a marble run ball run gravitram kugelbahn or rolling ball machine is a form of kinetic art an art form that contains moving pieces that specifically involves one or more rolling balls. Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan. Marble machine regenschiff rain ship 2009.