Complex Marble Machine

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Complex marble machine.

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. 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. 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. Subscribe for more https tinyu.

Marble machine regenschiff rain ship 2009. Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan. 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. The marble often bounced out of the machine so i added catch nets made of dowels.

When molin winds a hand crank. The flip flop from your marble machines inspired me to build this machine. 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 version where marbles compete in a race to win is a called a marble race.