#marble machine

[jaubaius]

Music instrument using 2000 marbles🔊🎵🎹

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#marble machine #music #amazing #musicist #wow #unmuted #awesome

[fipindustries]

if there is one thing one learns when following the marbe machine series all the way to today is that the very first original video of the marble machine is basically a complete lie. the thing required multiple takes, the machine was constantly breaking between one shot and the other and the only reason it looks as good as it does is probably more due to editing than due to any engineering accomplishment by martin himself

#wintergatan #marble machine

[fuzzystims]

ring gear lift marble machine

#stim #stimmy #marbles #marble machine #gears #brown #wood

[fuzzygifs]

3d printed marble machine

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#marbles #marble machine #green

[steampaul]

i've started a little series of weekly posts documenting every MoC i made (digitally) over the last few years:

Week 9: 2022

some old MoCs returning, lego art, 90th anniversary toa team, video game stuff and more Rock Raiders (yay)

this one will be the penultimate week.

remember back in week 2 (2018) where i tested out the differences in rendering between stud.io 1 and 2? i tested out the mecabricks extention for Blender to render some digital bricks.

this took way too long to setup and render, so i decided to not use blender for rendering after that (escpecially after the win11 updated fucked with my graphics card)

another mandalorian s2 set MoC. din djarins N1 starfighter, based on the last N1 set we had back in 2015. i think these proportions aren't good, but a bit better than the official set. (its still too big though)

the Horizon: forbidden west set was also teased/revealed around that time, so i decided to make a diorama with just the watcher (and one with a corrupted one) that would be a bit more managable in both cost and size than the tallneck.

i still got the tallneck, becauce those robot dinos are cool as hell and i want to support video game based sets, even though i am a big supporter of the concept that LEGO should make more original themes instead of big and expensive licensed sets (like rivendell....)

some greebles inspired by the ones on the Icons (formerly master builder) "theme" of sets, also my header image for tumblr.

back in 2017 (week one) i made The Slugcat Portrait mosaic, and i decided in 2022 that i would remake it to be more in line with the way i would built with bricks at that time. i think i improved wuite a bit.

i like the 90 years of play tahu, even if his design was considered to be controversial, so i decided to make the full 2001 set lineup for bionicle. i think they turned out pretty good, but i find it a bit annoying that the maccaroni piece does not exist in tan or medium blue (a dicontinued colour)

anyone remeber Valley? the momentum-based FPS platformer? no? it wasn't really mind-blowing, but i still enjoyed the movement and flow of the game. i also always wanted to try out the Legoland Miniland style of character building. this was the perfect opportunity to combine both of these things.

i think the proportions might be a bit off, but i still like this little desk friend

someone asked me on twitter to send them the instructions for my marble machine MoC (as seen in week 7), but i didn't want to give them such and outdated build, so i re-designed it to be more up to date.

they ended up giving me about 14 $ for these instructions, which made me pretty happy.

i tried to make a micro-scale version of the exo-force set 7701 Grand Titan. i really dislike the way this one turned out.

Lego Ideas had yet another contest. this one was about designing a poster for the then new 21334 Jazz Quartet. i called this one "Golden Sounds" and it is the first mosaic-type MoC that i made where i first sketched it out to kinda figure out how i wanted it to look.

i like the way this one turned out, but i think i should've built it in such a way that the colours in the background wouldn't be as dim.

remember last week when i said i wanted to make more Rock raiders MoCs? turns out i did. a lot too.

this VTOL-style transport vehicle was kinda inspired by those industrial transport helicopters and was supposed to be some sort of reimagining of 4980 tunnel transport. i think it's a bit too clunky and a bit too skinny at the same time. not my favourite.

also there's a modular open container (is that what they're called?) that can be fixed under the vehicle. (as well as the room container that you'll see next)

Modular bases are so cool you guys. this one is inspired by 4990 Rock Raiders HQ and those big old moving platforms Nasa uses. it could be controlled with a motor, has a removable cockpit (with an access hatch) and the platform has a lot of room for modules. like the crystal refinery, the room container, the high platforms, the crane and the crane attachment holder.

here are a few variants for the room container: an artifact storage with workbench, a small break room and a laboratory. i like those and i might do more in some time in the future. idk yet.

my take on the rock monsters. some crystal infested/energized Fauna.

first some bipedal designs (the left one is a modded version of a deviant form an eternals sets) that could be more agressive carnivore types.

in the middle are some quadrupedal guys that could be a bit less agressive and even friendly. Left is a modded version of my SCP 860 creature from week 4 (which was based on either an legendary beast from Chima or a dragon from elves) and the right one is a recolour from the fluffy-tailed Hog from my satisfactory series from week 3

and lastly, some insectoid designs, a kind of beetly creature and two ants, one of them with wings. these could be some sort of neutral (like in minecraft) swarm that might be a problem for buildings and cocky miners.

this is probably my favourite of my Rock Raiders Builds from 2022. it's 4920 rapid rider built with modern pieces that has been overtaken by the energy crytals. it can be fully freed from crystal and reassebled, which is nice.

we'll see another rapid rider next week...

first week last week final week

#lego #lego moc #lego minecraft #the mandalorian #horizon zero dawn #rain world #valley #wintergatan #marble machine #exo-force #lego jazz quartet #90th anniversary tahu #rock raiders

[scrunkledorf]

fuck man the marble machine saga is so fascinating because you can see Martin learn engineering over time. In the original marble machine he is an artist working off what he thinks up. And then in the marble machine X he’s figured out CAD and starts doing a bit of design. But now, with marble machine 3 he’s properly engineering it! He’s establishing design requirements with testable goals and working through designs before throwing it all in CAD.

#marble machine #wintergatan

[the274]

#wintergatan #marble machine #marble #the274fav #if you have lost your marbles #they now power up this device #music #video #Youtube

[flaggermuser]

Please enjoy pure magic

#wintergaten #marble machine #magical #Youtube

[snivy1245]

man i miss when wintergatan made music engineering is cool and all but like they haven't released a single song in 6 years

#wintergatan #swedish music #music #marble machine

[breckstonevailskier]

George Rhoads Kaleidoscopic Marble Machine at the Corning Museum of Glass

#corning museum of glass #corning #geirge rhoads #marble machine #new york #glass #glassmaking #Youtube

[geminioftheyear]

I love this, Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles).

From 7 years ago.

#Wintergatan #marble machine #sonidos #m loves

[music-sync-maniac]

Work-In-Progress lego golf man in action!

#lego #golf #lego technic #marble machine

[fuzzystims]

maborun marble sets

#stim #stimmy #marbles #marble machine #red #yellow #black

[oublietonorgueil]

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

#youtube #Marble #Machine #marble machine

[steampaul]

i've started a little series of weekly posts documenting every MoC i made (digitally) over the last few years:

Week 7: the rest of 2020

ideas contests, my new room, the return of the robot dog, some wishful thinking and some new emissive materials

LEGO Ideas had an activity where you took photos of minifigures interacting with real life objects. this was the photo i took. i like it a lot and used it for a very long time as my background for my phone because i was so proud of it.

i reorganized my room and decided to update the MoC i made of it. once again, posting this on reddit resulted in a lot of comments regarding the small size of my room. :/

is it obvious that i was obsessed with boston dynamic's spot and adam savage for a hot minute? i hope these costumes inspired by some of the casings adam savage made for his borrowed spot are the last we'll see...

LEGO Ideas also had a contest about music and music videos. my entry was the MMX by Martin Molin aka Wintergatan, a music playing machine that was supposed to be an updated version of the Marble Machine, a machine he built by himself back in 2016, that was actually engineered and not basically improvised. he didn't finish it and is currently starting a similar project from scratch.

i actually made that MoC of of the original Marble machine back in 2017 (i think), when i first saw the video, but the file is just.... gone. the only reason i even remembered this MoC is because i recently found the contest entry on my Ideas profile when i was looking something up. (the same goes for the activity entry i posted further up). I also had to take the image i uploaded to Ideas for this entry, because the render is also just.... gone.

season 2 of the mandalorian had recently released and there where some rumores floating around that we would be getting a set based on episode 1 (later revealed to be 75299 - trouble on tatooine)

some wishful thinking the lead me to making this MoC, something actually based on an interesting scene instead of just a bad built of a Ghorfa tent.

Stud.io made a new addition to their rendering allowing actual emissive materials intead of the kinda hacky thing i've been using with that orange material i had been using that far. this is just a build where i tested them (and how the eyesight renderer handled them).

also, yes, this would be out of chronological order because i've been using those new emissive materials in the hover cars from last week. but a limit of 30 images means i have to kind of choose what to put where and i mostly put them in an order that feels right.

anyway, next week is going to be 2021, my last productive year.

first week last week next week

#lego #lego moc #lego photography #boston dynamics #adam savage #wintergatan #marble machine #the mandalorian

[jackalgirl]

#marble machine #carillion #utrecht #wintergatan #youtube