As far as marble runs go, few can hope to compete with [Wintergatan]’s amazing musical works. While undertaking the build of the Marble Machine X, timing problems became apparent. You can crank the ...

Netherlands-based YouTuber and “designer of prototypical machines” Daniel de Bruin posted a pair of videos featuring a “miniature marble machine” – and the little contraption is mesmerizing. It’s a ...

For his entry in a cake decorating, sugarcraft and baking expo, engineer Martin Raynsford decided to make an edible version of his laser cut marble machine kit. The contraption had to be scaled up and ...

Lou Reed had Metal Machine Music. Musician and inventor Martin Molin has Marble Machine Music. Molin, who is a member of Swedish musical act Wintergatan, has designed a gigantic machine that is an ...

Last year, artist and musician Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan shared the results of his mechanical labor of love with the online community – the Musical Marble Machine. A captivating ...

Pincho balls are circulated like a Pythagora switch by combining wooden handwheel handles, gears, rails, etc. with drums, vibratophones and bases, turning the handwheel handle, and when the pachinko ...

Over the centuries, man has developed wonderful and intricate instruments that would delight our ears and pluck at our heartstrings. But what if you could somewhat undo all that and replace them with ...

As someone who writes about weird and awesome stuff on a pretty regular basis, I should have approximately 500 words to describe the Wintergatan Marble Machine, a music-making machine/art project made ...

That was a close shave! On Tuesday, asteroid 2011 ES4 passed really close to the earth. JPL’s close approach data pegs its nominal distance from earth at about 0.00081083276352288 au! Yeah, we had to ...

Three hundred metallic balls moved around in a handmade device with a width of 3.7 m × a height of 2.4 m all at once and it took three years to make it and still unfinished,Pitagora deviceA machine ...