Wintergatan - Marble Machine

Music instrument using 2000 marbles.

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+12 1. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

The work that must have gone into this! Truly an amazing piece of art, mechanics, and music :)
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+4 2. MazdaMadsen commented 8 years ago

It lost some marbles throughout the track ::(|)
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+6 3. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

I would lose a few marbles myself if I had to build it :P
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+6 4. creepylonghair commented 8 years ago

this is a physical copy of the animusic vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41a3DR0sZ-c
and very well done too :)
All we need now is for someone to do a robot one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EQUhdjRoo :)
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+4 5. ringmaster commented 8 years ago

It's impossible to get any video submitted if even the moderators post things in their own names :'(

Further information at this site: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/this-ludicrous-new-instrument-makes-music-with-2000-marbles/

If you want me to search hard for interesting things at internet, please let me be credited too.
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+2 6. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#5 Haha...I also submitted this yesterday morning..but it's okay, let Geek have some fun too ;) ...there're plenty more good vids around, but this one is really pretty special though.
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+1 7. Burimi commented 8 years ago

# 5 & 6 I submitted this yeterday

One question for all of you"

Are those marbles or steel sphere?
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+2 8. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#7 Haha..everyone jumped on this video, apparently :P..got a good question there, Burimi..
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0 9. Geekster (admin) commented 8 years ago

#5 No, it is not impossible. You were just not the first who submitted. Submit first and you will be credited for it. Look Burimi for example: he has 620 videos on Snotr you have just 17, and over time has submitted over 1000 videos for review, and he doesn't complain.

#5 #6 #7 By the time you all submitted the video, mine was already published but not visible on the site, but waiting in queue. There were disputes on this subject before, and the answer is simple: first come -> first served. As simple as that ;) we don't favor anyone. When an admin submits a video, goes through the same review process like anybody's else. I submitted many videos that never got published ;)
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0 10. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

No problem, I figured it was in the queue..
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0 11. Natan_el_Tigre commented 8 years ago

For v2, he could free up a hand by adding a treadle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadle (i)
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+2 12. loadrunner commented 8 years ago

I wonder how people look at me when I go to the shop to order 10,000 marbles.
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+3 13. bndbnd commented 8 years ago

this would make a great IKEA kit project >:) phone book size manual
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0 14. creepylonghair commented 8 years ago

#5 They are ball bearings :)
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+3 15. dalini101 commented 8 years ago

the machine was made by Martin Molin in sweden and it took 14 months :)
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+2 16. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#15 Welcome! :)
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+2 17. ComentAtor commented 8 years ago

wow .. a new guy on snotr :) 8-)
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+1 18. thundersnow commented 8 years ago

#17..Yeah, good to see snotr grow <3