In the interval between completion of St Gildas and arrival of Fair American I committed to finally getting this thing working properly
It started back in 2014 as an amalgamation of experiments that coalesced into a single sculpture. Since then. it's been years of on and off tweaking, frustration and more tweaking.
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Most recently, I replaced the AA battery holder with a wall wart, added a proper switch, and swapped out the anemic Tamiya hobby motor for a high-torque, low RPM motor.
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It has three switches of differing types to give it six distinct paths
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I already have some ideas for a new marble machine, which I anticipate will be significantly less complex than this one, considering how much trouble it's given me to get it right.
Hope you like it! BTW, sorry for the micro-sized videos—I don’t have a youtube account to which I can link
It started back in 2014 as an amalgamation of experiments that coalesced into a single sculpture. Since then. it's been years of on and off tweaking, frustration and more tweaking.
View attachment 20250730_183334.mp4
Most recently, I replaced the AA battery holder with a wall wart, added a proper switch, and swapped out the anemic Tamiya hobby motor for a high-torque, low RPM motor.
View attachment 20250730_183354.mp4
It has three switches of differing types to give it six distinct paths
View attachment 20250730_183428.mp4
View attachment 20250730_183450.mp4
View attachment 20250730_183407.mp4
I already have some ideas for a new marble machine, which I anticipate will be significantly less complex than this one, considering how much trouble it's given me to get it right.
Hope you like it! BTW, sorry for the micro-sized videos—I don’t have a youtube account to which I can link
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