Gravity powered machine
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2024
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Do you remember the time Colin Furze pulled a string and it made a cup of tea in another room? I'm building a marble machine which uses the force of gravity from the marble to make a cup of tea! A ball runs through the marble machine and its force is used to activate elements of the team making machine.
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The thing I'm increasingly appreciative of with your vides isn't the quality or perfection it's the way you just get shit done and call it finished. You are consistently producing rounded and complete projects at an astounding rate, great job 👍
He is quite underrated as an engineer, as most of his contraptions look pretty wacky, but the "Giant Robot Furby" really showed fast and precise engineering.
I feel like he goes straight from CAD/Solidworks to relatively functional designs. It would be interesting to see some of them refined.
@@JustGoAndFly I'm sure there is lots of tweaking that occurs and, as typical with youtube videos, goes unshown. We need a 2nd channel! 😁 He does sometimes revisit projects.
🤔Maybe that is key... he reserves refinement for a mk2 rather that parasitic scope creep of mk1.
He could make twice as much money from stretching the content over multiple videos with some cliffhangers at the end haha 🌈 capitalism is the best system available and this is not a joke. @@JustGoAndFly
I didn't like that you used electronic parts in this project. A marble machine should be pure marble machine. You could have put a counter weight on the elevator with just enough weight to make it go down slowly. Don't get this in the wrong tone, I am also your fan 😅
It took massive balls to make this project.
I liked the "Jugs Action"
D:
Especially considering what Brits will do to him for calling that a "the perfect cup of tea" >:P
@jamescollier3
Two massive ones, and all
he lost all his marbles
The 1970's here, we used to have a thing called a Teas Made, which woke you up with a cup of tea in the morning. The way they did it was very simple and very clever. The kettle and tea pot were next to each other, the spout of the kettle took the form of a small diameter pipe bent 180° and feeding in to the tea pot. When the kettle boiled the pressure would force the water out of the kettle and in to the tea pot. The thing had a clock which you set the time you wanted to get up, 5 minutes prior to that the kettle would turn on, there was a pressure switch underneath the kettle, when the kettle emptied the switch would open and an alarm would go off and a light would turn on, I guess so you weren't trying to pour scolding hot tea in the dark. The alarm was a bit redundant as the hot water rushing out of the kettle was pretty noisy.
I remember my parents having one of those Teas Maids. 🫖
They never let me have it in my room 🙁 I had to go downstairs, make my tea then take it back upstairs.
My grandparents used them well into the 90's. The Goblin Teasmade!
Maybe I LIKE the misery.
Ah the 70's what a time to be alive! 😅
He cut the video right at the end because the tea wasn't right and wanted to avoid showing himself being disgusted by it 😂
11:22 - That's my mate when I ask for a strong builder's tea
🤣
Don't forget about Marble machine X by Martin at Wintergatan. In the latest episode he used both a fly governor and a gravity governor to adjust the speed of the marble machine. Perhaps you could do something equal to slow down the decent of the bal through out the marble track. For example the seesaw tipping could be slowed down with a air governor while gravity governor could be used in combination with the elevator to so that when the ball enters the elevator the tea drops and the slow elevator starts to descend. When the elevator comes down to the bottom it lifts the tea bag out of the cup.
Governor doesn't adjust the speed, it make it constant.
@@JesusWasAPunk31 Yea. I had to think about that. But i think you are correct, but I do not fully know why. Care to explain?
I'm so relieved that you made proper tea and implemented the timer. I'm appalled at how weak Colin Furze drinks his tea!
I don't know why but the phone gag gets me every time! ❤
That cut at 3:21 had me laugh out loud
You should recreate the breakfast machine in Chitty Chatty Bang Bang, but with your own panache, of course.
you should start a 2nd marble in a parallel helix track, when this marble has reached the bottom it lands in a basket which releases the flap on the lift for the large marble via a cable pull. In this way, you can also release the tea time in a mechnical way, and depending on where in the helix the second ball starts, you can also regulate the length of the brewing!
I love waking up in the morning, boiling water, setting my cup on a plate, adding a tea bag, milk, and water to seperate containers, and then dropping a ball bearing at the top of a slide :P My cat loves to lick up the extra water and milk at the end and run off with the ball!
man who has never brewed tea, brews a cup of tea
It seems you're having some kind of breakdown, and I love it!
Tea-800 is such a perfect pun, have a subscription sir
4:58 you could use do a simple syringe as a piston shock absorber to slow the pour. the dunking could be a wheel with a high ratio so the ball goes down but the wheel dunks many times before the ball reaches the bottom to the next stage.
Wallace’s inspiring engineering lives on!
I'm digging the phone mic! The marble machine is really great too! I was NOT expecting a giant fist sized ball bearing though!
It felt like he was on hold, and figured he might as well knock out a project while he waited.
A very cool modification to this design would be to use small ball bearing instead of a single large one. At each stage there is a buffer where it fills with multiple ball bearings, once the stage is complete the machine would slowly release the ball bearings to the next stage
You can really feel the time limit induced by the weekly upload schedule in this one.
Aww dang. You need a mechanical timer. Like a spring mass gear thing
After the milk is added, you could add a stirring mechanism. Tea and coffee are better when they've been stirred!
You heathen! That is way too much milk. lol! Seriously, that is epic. I love it.
I like this more chilled presentation style 😊
if youre gonna mention various marble machines, there is one that is a REQUIERMENT...
Wintergatan's Marble Machine X, and the upgraded versions of it..... it plays whole songs.
Nothing beats it, not even the clock. ........ and hes been doing it long before it became trendy.
Yes I subscribe to Wintergatan. Vintage.
Need to get yourself sponsored by Turing Tumble and do some more robots powered by marble run processors.
TEA-800 is the best product name ever :)
The phone mic is a welcome addition lol
Amazing work again.
The phone gag was amazing
That phone throughout the video made my chuckle
Haha! The 8 stages of tea-making
Brilliant work, James!
What have you done! You just started the tea making wars.... Now the other makers have to make tea makers.
It's the most English thing I think.. Not marble music, not kinetic art.. A machine to make a cup of tea ☕
The vibe of the intro is "James didn't have an idea this week so drank the leftover Christmas booze and ad-libbed it into a disconnected phone handset" ... I enjoyed this video a lot :)
Another great video, James. Turns out my son really likes your channel as well, so now you're helping me teach him robotics. Thanks!
Magnificently adorable, you are awesome!
If its quieter than a 1970's Goblin Tea's'Maid, then congratulations.
This was soooo cool!
really liked this one james!!
thanks
Electronic gate is a bit sad, tough problem to solve and get the video out in time though. Feels like a fairly simple escapement coulda worked
he is becoming crazy, i love this
The phone gag was on point
perfect. lots of laughs
Cracking toast, Grommet.
Love it. Would love to see another video on improving the air engine again i really enjoyed them
the phone mic is hilarious lmao
Yorkshire tea is what colin used. And his milk goes in first
Wow that's amazing
Just a suggestion for making stuff wait a while: the pendulum mechanism in a mechanical clock is fit for this task, as the marble could provide a torque to the mechanism while a pendulum swings back and forth to slowly increment a dial, eventually triggering something to occur later in the machine
instead of Walace and Gromit weve got James Bruton.
the phone mic is very reminiscent of juliana chahayed's videos. i love it
You had me rolling in the first 15 seconds. Instant like and sub
I think using tea cup with a flat bottom on the inside instead of rounded would solve half of the splashing problems. A mechanical solution for the bag dipping timer could be water being slowly poured from one jug to another on a weight triggered mechanism or scale.
I love this project, it’s so creative! I could tell James was having lots of fun making it. I feel like the electronic bits are like cheating a bit, but I totally understand the need to publish content.
You could try using a Magnet ball through a copper tube (Lenz's Law) too slow the ball to have longer time on the parts that take the longest time 😉
You could have used a weighted sand timer for the timing, but I get that you chose electronics to get finished
I feel like he is talking to someone else and i’m eavesdropping on his phone call.
Epicly well done.....
Awesome.
Reminded me of watching an old episode of the fantastic “The Great Egg Race” as a kid. Just googled and it’s available to watch on the bbc archive in an episode called “Time for Tea”. RIP Professor Hieinz Wolff.
Really "phoned in" the video this week lol. Great build and an excellent demo of sequential logic. For a simple mechanical timer, how about use a second ball to drive an fan governor before releasing the gate to raise the tea.
I was watching anothing channel and I think a project James would excel with is if he tried to make his own version of a gaming chair, a la the Cluvens Scorpion Gaming Cockpit. He could fix all the issues mentioned in reviews and at the end of the day, he'd have an excelent chair for him to model in. And knowing James, he'd casually make the chair actually walk.
A sand timer would be neat for the brewing time. Funnel opened by ball. Sand goes unto bin on a lever that moves lift door up when times done. Adjustable too.
Tea 800 is the perfect name!
You forgot the ice cubes. How can tea be good without ice? Don’t think it’s a good idea for Texans. 😂😂
... I haven't really planned this ... just phoning it in
Do you know the channel Joseph’s Machines? He makes some amazing Rube Goldberg machines that are in the same vein as this contraption. He specifically avoids using strings to transfer motion because it makes it harder for the viewer to follow the action.
James talking on a telephone handset is peak 80's romanticism
He must have been well bored with this project, as he was literally phoning in his lines. 🤣🤣
even in 2:52 when the phone cable is clearly disconnected 🤣
I watch these videos to hear you say, “Bahh-rings”!
Well, at least it is a tea with milk and not milk with tea.
i think using a sensor/ball bearings is out of the scope of a marble machine- also the title should have the word tea for non-uk viewers
if you could find a way to add even just a small alphanumeric display to your machine it would be able to explain to us all how it is the transmigrated soul of a GWR broad-guage locomotive long-since relegated to the scrapyard. Now recalled to life & given a purpose, a mission if you will to make cups of tea
I love the handset mic
You forgot to mention the OG RUclips marble machine man, wintergatan
Awesome!
That's some GOOD Gravi-TEA on show here
Loving the mic haha
I really like the new mic
Brilliant
3D print a giant Screwball Scramble machine!
Have you thought about building a filament extruder and shredder? So you could recycle failed parts which I assume you've got a few.
11:33 I was soooo disappointed because I was hoping for a fully mechanical thing. Other than that: Wow!
Yes I did see those aforementioned videos 😊
Amazing definitly could be in some store for effects would need to load the hot water and milk via tubes and water pump and stuff for the next run.
You should make a meat powered mech suit.
Love the phone mic!
I have that same 'phone' :D Great for pranks by whipping out that thing when your mobile rings :P
This feels like an alternate universe version of a James Burton video and I don't know why
Admittedly I think the arduino was a bit of a cop-out in this case, when you could have also just made the machine release the tea bag.... but at least you didn't abandon the idea 2 or more times across several years before finishing it.
I take 3 lumps in my tea. Where's the lumps?
when the voice in your head is like "I could knot multiple hooks into the string to try different lengths" and you don't wanna do all that knotting and just 3d print a bigger hooking pice to try different lengths xD
I don't think it's about different lengths of string, it's about different distances from the pivot to change the leverage
Wallace and gromit would approve 😂
Loved the phone!
Amazing fantastic work as usual James. I wondered why didn't you just set the cup up with the tea bag in it, but your dunker removes the tea bag once the cuppa's brewed (preventing unpleasant stewing).
"BEEAARRINGS!" 😂
Make a electromagnetic tank, that floats on its tracks like a maglev and uses magnetic fields to turn the tracks
I so want to make a candy dispensing machine for my kids weekend treats 😂
3:08 The phone mic is even more impressive when you consider it wasn't even plugged in.
Except it very clearly is? It's plugged into a black splitter that you can see is under his belt.
Interesting retro twist to the trend of RUclipsrs holding microphones as Tom Nicholas noticed and talked about at length. Initially thought you were on the phone with another famous maker.