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.

Complex marble 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. 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. Machines that do nothing yet are so cool and awesome. When molin winds a hand crank.

A version where marbles compete in a race to win is a called a marble race. Marble toy of gears here is a pretty result from anna with thanks. 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.

Check out these amazing useless yet fun wood marble machines videos. 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. The flip flop from your marble machines inspired me to build this machine. Marble machine regenschiff rain ship 2009.