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This marble machine that Matthias made is a great example of a nice complex wood working project. I love the hard drive platter that is used as a bell. The wheel I had cut only had a 25 cm diameter, which would not provide enough head (elevation change) to allow the marbles to do much on the way back down. Rather than make a much bigger wheel, I figured I should use a second wheel to elevate the marbles even further. This would be more visually appealing than one big wheel. The challenge with two wheels was how to somehow couple their rotation together. At first I wanted to just cut a groove in the circumference of the wheels and use an O-ring style belt to drive them both, but I couldn’t figure out where to find that kind of belt. The next idea was to just cut gear teeth into the wheels. This is a lot of work, but more visually appealing than a belt. Visual appeal is very important, as the marble machine, after all, has no real purpose. If its not fun to look at, its no fun at all.”
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April 14th, 2007
I’d liek to see a rube goldburg device with the same level of precision as that
April 14th, 2007
So this is cool. Wood makes everything cooler. Like wooden case mods. or wooden floors. or wooden Shoes… well almost every thing.
April 14th, 2007
Incredible!!! But, unfortunately, a waste of time…
April 14th, 2007
Yah, I would have to agree with wuh. Amazing though still.
April 14th, 2007
AHAHAHAHA! I love it!
April 14th, 2007
Nothing is a waste of time if you enjoy making it. I think that is pretty cool and I know my daughter would love to play with something like then when she gets a bit older.
April 15th, 2007
@liesofxiii: yea, thatd be sweet
@Brent: i agree
April 15th, 2007
Wow, it’d wicked awesome if it made the marbles! ^_^
April 16th, 2007
The Marble machine 2
Matthias writes - I hadn’t actually planned on building a second marble machine, but in March 2000 I had an idea for building a better marble elevating device, plus I had enough time on my hand to actually build…
April 16th, 2007
Why is it a waste of time? Does art need to be justified by the measure of how much time and resources that it took? How the spirit of an exercise if it entertains either the creator or his audience be considered a waste of time?
April 16th, 2007
Wow, that is some work of art there. The wood work is amazing, he paid alot of attention to detail. He could probably make these and sell them for huge amounts of money, cause i’d buy one.
April 17th, 2007
Has anybody noticed that this website is mostly trying to live off other’s content?
I mean, if you want to show off somebody’s work, LINK to the site, don’t copy two thirds of it.
Copying this much can hardly be considered fair use.
April 17th, 2007
Hi Matthias,
I am sorry that you felt a disservice from the Hacked Gadget post of your project. As per our email correspondence I have removed the video of your project. Please note that there is a link directly to your site (it has always been there).
Keep up the great work on your projects!
Have a great day,
Alan Parekh
April 17th, 2007
-matthias
this is a blog, they find things that are interesting/cool, and post about them, usually that entails posting some pictures and content from the original site. Right at the begining of the post there was a link to the original site where the story came from, and if someone sent them a link in an email about it, there is usually a little nod to them at the end of the post.
That’s how blogs work…
April 18th, 2007
I love it but where’s the video?
May 6th, 2007
pretty coool, i likey!!!!