BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt. 3
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Published 2023-12-23
You can watch the two previous videos of this project here:
Part 1: • BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt.1.
Part 2: • BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt. 2
It took a while indeed but it works!! The "small" issue of the marbles getting stuck everywhere brought me to do one redesign after another which in the end took me to reprint every single piece on the machine but at least it solved the problem. In addition to reprinting everything I had to use steel wire for the marbles to roll on because any minimal imperfection would get the marbles unable to start rolling from a standing stop.
While I was at it I moved the joints to the middle of the inclines and consequently moved the first gate too and that made impossible for the marbles to get trapped in there too.
I changed slightly the marble selection mechanism and now marbles are pushed into the channels instead of rejected out of the elevator. I don't mention in the video why I did it because I hope will be the key of my success in the next and last video for this project where I will try to make it work minute by minute.
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All Comments (21)
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It's like Wintergatan all over again. Martin has rebuilt everything on that machine at least 2 times now.
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This takes the term 'losing your marbles' to a totally new level
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Very impressive! Nice work!!
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This is exactly the kind of thing that would captivate me for hours on display at a museum, watching all the little pieces work, fantastic build. I'd love to see a 24 hour video of this going through a whole day of time, split up by hour so one could "set it" as a clock throughout the day
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I mentioned this idea in the previous video: If you make the marble channels vertical instead of horizontal, it would allow you to clear out a single digit at a time. So if the time was 14:12, you can specifically just clear out the 2. This would speed it up significantly.
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I had another Idea for this. Instead of using the Tower for unused marbles to come down, add an extra lane in the left (below the marble display) without stops. So you had 14 lanes, 13 for the Time and one below where you would see the owerflow marbles running down. I think, this would look nice
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This is one hell of a lesson in the concept of testing complex machines in small discrete sections individually instead of building the entire thing in one go and hoping to be able to iron out any bugs with minor patches and tweaks.
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Awesome! Been looking forward to this, what an insane amount of work!
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After you get it faster, we need an hour long video of it just running 😁
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An engineer sees the problem and says "we need to remake everything." A child sees the problem and says "how about using smaller marbles?"
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I admire the dedication and patience, that you had to rebuild the entire clock practically from scratch, to get the marbles to stop sticking after they are cleared out.
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There is a fine line between insanity and genius, and this man is doing handstands on the edge. A fantastic idea.
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This clock definitely deserves to be a museum piece! Fantastic work, love the design.
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Eres una bestia Ivan!
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I love that you include the whole process, because seeing you make mistakes and then fix them is very motivational to me. I have a problem with giving up too soon on my projects, and a reminder that even people way better at engineering than me need to reiterate and go back to the drawing table sometimes is very good to see!
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7:10 use soft rubber clear pool tubing.. plus you can watch them fall quietly
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Replace the spiral with some clear vinyl tubing in a holder to keep it in shape. The soft flexible tubing will dramatically reduce the noise from the marbles, and it'll look cool since you'll be able to see them!
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this needs to be in a museum, its so freaking cool
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Awesome work! Maybe you want to sort the marbles in black and white after ejecting them. So you could have 2 containers, one for black and one for white. (I would place them above each other) - With that you could first add the necessary black marbles into the lift and then fill the "missing" white marbles into the empty slots. This would speed up things a lot, because you don't rely on luck anymore that the correct marbles are in the lift.
