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.

Marble machine regenschiff rain ship 2009. The action of each triggers the initiation of the next eventually resulting in achieving a stated goal. 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. 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. The flip flop from your marble machines inspired me to build this machine. Check out these amazing useless yet fun wood marble machines videos. Marble toy of gears here is a pretty result from anna with thanks.

Machines that do nothing yet are so cool and awesome. Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan. The marble often bounced out of the machine so i added catch nets made of dowels. When molin winds a hand crank.