Building The Marble Machine

In a youtube video molin explains that the marble machine took 16 months to build and just two hours to take apart.

Building the marble machine.

I have not built one yet but i want to. Wintergatan is building the marble machine x. There is something about building a marble machine that makes me feel like i could control the world. Taking my old mm2 1 build series and editing it down to 1 3 of its size into one 20 minute build video.

I have more details on the construction of this machi. They have great ideas and amazing wood working skills. In this first episode i wanted to try to describe as many functions as possible of the m m x to all the engineers who are emailing me and want. A marble machine building block combination marble machine 2 1 a more refined redesign of marble machine 2 marble run building blocks another set of building blocks for marble tracks seven amazing marble machines made by paul grundbacher from switzerland marble machine 1 my first wooden marble machine marble machine 2 my second wooden marble.

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 a machine using this principle. With a lift tha. Marble machines are fun. Until then i will have to settle for the work of some of these marble machine masters.

In this playlist you can follow the whole build from the first sketches to the latest progress. There are endless ways to lift a ball high enough to get your marble machine running. Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan. If you can get it to the top gravity will do the rest.