Added: Mar 7, 2010
From: aletof
Duration: 9:43
This is a marble machine I built during the course of one month (mid January - mid February 2010). I included some slow motion clips and details of the mechanisms. It has 3 elevating mechanisms: -A large and small disc embedded on the same piece of wood. -An antigravity Disc (Uses Neodymium magnets) -A set of stairs Everything is powered manually although I intended to motorize it (you can see a white plastic gear somewhere in there) but couldn't find a motor strong enough to do it. Notice that the stairs use a sinusoidal curve to thrust the marble up, I find this to be a more efficient (in terms of speed) way of making them instead of the traditional two by two. Also notice the "switch" in the loading part of the antigravity disc, it prevents to marbles to go up at the same time. I designed, cut, carved and glued everything by myself, I hope you like it :)
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Rating: 5.0' max='5' min='1' numRaters='50' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 12246 Comments: 28
MisanthropeJackalope Says:
Mar 8, 2010 - Saw this on reddit-- just wanted to say this thing is really cool. I love little contraptions. Great work!
aletof Says:
Mar 8, 2010 - Gracias Santi!
aletof Says:
Mar 8, 2010 - Thanks!
aletof Says:
Mar 8, 2010 - Thanks :) I'm glad you appreciate my work!
Thirit Says:
Mar 8, 2010 - que cosa tan cool! Si te rifaste
jelleknikkers Says:
Mar 9, 2010 - Very nice! Please check my marble machines!
ramaynard77 Says:
Mar 11, 2010 - i think i love you
jmdm89 Says:
Mar 18, 2010 - Marbelous
jmdm89 Says:
Mar 20, 2010 - Tututurutu tuturutu
papichulo052299 Says:
Mar 24, 2010 - que maquina de canicas es la mejor que yo he visto hecha a mano buen trabajo alef te la rifastes
aletof Says:
Mar 24, 2010 - @papichulo052299 Muchas gracias :) Me alegra que te guste
aletof Says:
Mar 24, 2010 - @jmdm89 Tutururururururu turutututututuru...
Maciac2 Says:
Apr 13, 2010 - very cpool
steepranger Says:
Apr 29, 2010 - guau amigo eres el mejor quisiera hacer una pero no puedo es muy caro todo el material
aerovuelolibre Says:
May 25, 2010 - muy buen trabajo, mira la mía... Saludos
ArmyNinja21 Says:
Jun 1, 2010 - its a very nice machine the only improvement i would make is put a small electric motor on it so that you don't have to continuously crank it
delcopond Says:
Jun 8, 2010 - Me encanta tu máquina de bolas,está genial. Y menudo trabajo !
aletof Says:
Jun 9, 2010 - @Maciac2 Thanks!
aletof Says:
Jun 9, 2010 - @steepranger El dinero que invertí para construirla fue de unos 70 dólares americanos, pero tenía acceso a todas las herramientas.
aletof Says:
Jun 9, 2010 - @aerovuelolibre Está excelente tu máquina! Me agrada mucho.
aletof Says:
Jun 9, 2010 - @ArmyNinja21 I am planning on making a motorized one in the future. Originally this one was supposed to have a motor, but it turned out to be too weak to move it.
aletof Says:
Jun 9, 2010 - @delcopond Gracias!
cartuner555 Says:
Jul 27, 2010 - Those nails almost make it sound like rain!
luedriver Says:
Jul 31, 2010 - arghh hate the lower gray bar....
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
mussedeq Says:
Mar 8, 2010 - Mmmm... mouthwatering.