Martin can have a working copy of Atari's 720° in the lobby of the venues. It was a skateboarding video game which was the very first one to be created.
The new machine design looks beautiful. One suggestion I would have is to add some color on the programming wheel, so from farther away, like from the seats during a concert, it's easier to see its movement in the windows of space in between the instruments.
@@EaglePicking Love the idea, and having the layout of the levers not in evenly spaced rows will make it easier for Martin to grab the right one more quickly. It’s why piano keys are not all the same. Imagine how much more difficult a keyboard would be to play if all the keys were the same and equally spaced.
so happy to see it come full circle to a "machine" not a massive stage-filling automata. Always felt a bit uneasy about the huge idea, can't wait for build videos :)
One suggestion; if you want to optionally add things like the shaker I would add an interface where you can add modules to the crank shaft, kinda like you can add accessories to a kitchen aid! That way you can focus on building a marble machine now and if future songs demands things like a shaker or whatever, you can add that for that specific song!
Seems like you've really started to focus more on your experience and journey with the machine. Really happy for you, and I hope you continue to find fun in the experimentation and implementation of your machine and music in the new year!
Self-driving cars is like the overly complicated designs you've discarded for your machine. It's far more difficult and ultimately less effective than the time-tested and simpler solution of restoring our abandoned rail systems.
We already have the solution and we've had it for over a hundred years: design cities around people, not cars. Provide public transportation infrastructure for all. It took an enormous PR effort to make Americans "love their cars so much." We can turn it around.
Hell yeah trains beat everything, if you really can't make a train then we can have a bus, but pretending like self driving cars are the solution is solving the symptom not the problem
@@simonvetter2420 It's like saying "being against diet soda is being for junk food". Everyone is so fixated on self-driving cars when the goal should be that cars in general are only a small component of our transportation diet.
I had a lot of mixed feelings about self-driving cars, but then I watched Not Just Bikes' video "How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)" and I was really impressed with their argument. They used lessons from history to explain how we got where we are with car culture, and made some very convincing predictions about the consequences of prioritizing self-driving cars.
yea the issue isn't "staying the same", but "staying with cars". there are simply wayyyy too many of them and it's so bad in so many ways. we can progress much quicker by simply eliminating most cars from the road, and "moving on" to solutions that already exist and don't require excessive engineering. it's so clear that martin hasn't had much research into this at all.
The marble machine is incredible, but I got to confess what always fascinates me is your journey and growth as an engineer. Wow! You’re becoming the poster child for great engineering. The lessons you have shared with us are so valuable. Blessings.
I don't think the discussion about AI self driving car is about having less people killed but in the meanwhile i will be waiting for a humanoid AI marble machine builder to build the marble machine x there will be a lot less of marble on the floor. PS : trains are awesome safe and already self driving. Maybee we can get better public transport and people can drive as a hobby.
yeah, opposing self driving cars can mean opening streets to other kinds of locomotion instead, trains, trams, bikes, and the right to use your own two feet to explore the world, get inspired, love life. safer streets does not necessarily mean safer cars, it can mean other things.
This is ABSOLUTELY the correct sort of choices for this project. Make the best possible version of the thing you already made a couple of times. You don't need a box to do everything. You are building a mechanical member of your band that you can play in addition to the other instruments you play for the live show. You don't need to reinvent any kind of wheels here. just refine the already cool one you did. The refinement will look and sound better, and the tour/album cycle with it will be cool.
And also very heavy. Maybe Martin should use carbon fiber... he'd have the added benefit of several more years of channel content while he learns to work with it. 😂
Being against self driving cars isn't being for the status quo. There are other ways to improve the transportation of humans that reduce deaths and the effort a person has to move from one location to another. Namely proper public transportation, like buses and trains.
The advancements in FSD for cars will also be applied to bus transportation. Trains have always been poorly suited for transporting people, but efficiency per mile always tempt a certain kind of person want to make it work.
My problem with self driving cars is that they are still cars. Same thing with electric cars, it only solves one small part of the problem. If we apply actual design requirements to transportation, i'm pretty sure we'd end up with something radically different from cars :D
incredible job on the marble machines, though I find I have to say that I do not think self driving cars are a likely solution, to me they simply seem to continue a wasteful system of transport with a handful of benefits under some circumstances but rarely a daily commute, so I think expanded public transport and more availability of bikes and other forms of non powered locomotion will probably be a better alternative in terms of resources, pollution, and footprint
yeah, the balance of wood and metal that the MMX had was the best way to go about it. for parts that need critical dimensional stability, metal is too good not to use. everything else is beautiful in wood.
He might be able to get away with it as long as he limits the "plywood gears" to just the large ring gear, similar to the MMX. I don't recall the MMX having backlash issues. Also, he should probably bring spare parts of all the plywood parts with him on tour.
Being against self-driving cars is not being "for the status quo". Self driving cars are one solution (or even part of a solution) to a very complex problem of getting people from point A to point B. Individual cars, moving individual people is a very inefficient system. Even if the technology worked perfectly there are social and ecological problems with cars that might cause some to oppose this shift toward leaning into cars as a solution. The money and effort put into trying to make self-driving cars work is so much larger and with more backing than other transportation solutions. Not to say that self-driving cars can't be part of the solution, but often this "black and white" mindset of "if you're not with us, you're against us" ultimately hurts the landscape of transportation technology in the US (maybe worldwide). I will admit, the progress we've made is impressive, and it is likely safer than human drivers, but so are trains and busses and any number of other solutions.
This is one part of an otherwise great video, I hate that a small comment like this had to spoil an otherwise great experience and watch... Looking forward to what you make of the new marble machine (if you end up reading this)
The shaker idea was cool, but I agree with you about removing it from the main machine. You could easily make the shaker a much smaller seperate machine that's on stage with you that's powered by an electric motor. The cool part about your machines is the visual mechanics of them, not that they are hand cranked or human powered.
There was no limit to Leonardo’s genius. The man was very much ahead of his time. When it comes to this most recent design for MM3, it’s really giving the look of the Acoustic Curves Animusic video. I love it!
Hell yeah Martin! Great to see you recaptured the beauty of the original while making something new, unique and elegant! I really like this design and im happy to say it looks very do-able! A clear vision, and the knowledge, mindset and skillset that can achieve it, 2025 and Marble Machine is looking very bright! Cant wait to see your next video! :) Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and the entire community! :)
Thank you Martin! I've enjoyed your work since the Detektivbyrån days, and it’s incredible to see how far you’ve come as a creator. Your dedication to the Marble Machine project is truly inspiring-an amazing testament to perseverance and creative vision. You show us all that with the right perspective and effort, even the most daunting projects can be brought to life. And, of course, when things don’t go as planned, there’s always the angle grinder to help reset the course! The new design for the updated Marble Machine feels like a perfect evolution-it captures the exciting spirit of the original while refining and expanding on it in a really thoughtful way. I don’t see your journey as going in circles but as following a Fibonacci Spiral: each iteration brings you closer to your goal, even if it feels like you're retracing steps. Every adjustment and insight adds up, inching you toward the balance between practical engineering and artistic vision. Can’t wait to see where the spiral leads next!
Just to echo what I’m seeing all over the comments, I LOVE this new “full circle” theme; A true ad fontus! This looks like a unique, thoughtful machine again and I am excited to see you work on it next year!
This is HUGE personal growth. Well done! We're looking forward to fewer, 'better', videos this coming year. So glad you didn't give up. We think you're on the right track. Remember, 1st thoughts are just your knee jerk response to a situation. Think again! Go to and good luck. x
Love that you’re finally understanding what makes this project fun and enjoyable both for yourself and for viewers. Been a long time subscriber and for the longest time I sat here banging my head against a wall out of frustration when you were getting lost in the weeds about “perfection” and became obsessive over the most minuscule details that to most viewers do not matter and would not change the listening experience of the end result. We just want to see a cool machine! And if a couple marbles fall on the floor, so what? I’m happy to hear that MM3 may actually be a possibility now that your view towards the project has shifted 🙏
Looks good! Two questions ... How will mid-air marble collisions be avoided? How will we avoid a lot of noise from marbles landing after that big drop?
Both questions have the same answer: this is about ad revenue and parteon money, the real machine will never actually be built - so there will be no collisions nor noise.
One thing to keep in mind with this design is that you introduce the possibility of marble collisions, especially if 2 notes that are near each other are played at the same time.
One of my favorite parts about your journey is your openness to share your process. You can see each iteration take small bits and pieces from the previous machines; growing (or sometimes shrinking) and evolving what we’ll eventually cheer for live. Here’s to the next iteration 😅
Good to see that you're listening to our feedback on the visual identity of the machine. Having it be the size of the stage with all the parts strewn about was never going to have that singular "instrument" identity as a machine the size of a bookshelf or two. Audiences have never gone crazy over seeing a huge Modular Synth on a stage, since there's no singular element to focus on.
One thing that's still on my mind is if you want a second marble to drop on the drum fast after the first one doesn't the time fluctuate due to the drum moving. You probably found this already out but I'm wondering.
I have been folowing your journey for years and seeing you make this wears tear around has been a joy! Thank you for sharing your personal progress. If its the journey and not the destination this project is already a succes! And i have no douth there is more to come.
This video and everything said in here is what I've been waiting for, for years. Thank you, Martin. This is awesome, you're definitely going in the right direction, and this project will be a complete success. I don't believe so anymore, I know so.
The marble catch at the bottom should be one of those large flat funnels they always have at children's science museums. I think it would put the circle theme front and center, plus the chaos of marbles bouncing and colliding, then circling into the middle would be really mesmorizing.
1) You should make more music!! 2) Make sure this new machine can break down easily into a shipping container! 3) I have a Tesla Model 3 with FSD. I have 105K miles on that car, 90% in FSD. It's a life saver.
Definitely getting there! You do realize that you could make the machine out of some light,strong composite and just make it look like wood, either through paint or wrap or some other techniques. Good luck, really looking forward to progress!
I think you are on the right track, with the circular theme. Imo it should with a focus on organic design, implementing concepts like the golden ration, the Fibonacci sequence, and squircles into the design, which could help it almost seem alive!
You shouldn't unlearn anything. Your path through this project has been ongoing learning experience. Use everything you have learnt to create the ultimate machine.
Very happy to support you. Truly interesting and enjoyable to watch you go through this process. Can't wait to see the end result, whenever that may be 😊
That looks awesome! The funnel looks like a french horn. So, IMO, it fits great aesthetically. The old designs looked like an industrial frame rather than an instrument.
I loved the original MM, then MMX was the better version of it and i loved it even more. The combination of plywood with metal still made it feel homemade, yet it looked sturdy and higher quality. It perfectly captured the feel of MM1, but was going to be the perfected design. That being said, it's understandable I and many others didn't like the large machines you designed exactly for the reasons you described, so I'm really happy the original dense design is back! Also i think part of the "magic" of MM1 and MMX was the feeling that you get when looking at something complex and not being able to make out how exactly it works. The dense boxy design where everything obstructs everything so you can't get a propper look helps this sensation, but a spread-out machine where everything is well organised looks very simple even if it's much more complex. A reason for this might be that our brains are very much "optimization-focused". A spread-out design invokes the feeling that you could've built it much more compact. A person looking at it could go like "Pfft, I could've built that with some time and money!". But a machine filled with gears and flywheels to the point where it doesn't let light shine through makes you wonder "how the hell did he fit all of that machinery into such tight space?" even if it's like 80% empty air.
So happy that Martin is kinda back on track after trying to make MM3 a bit too.... big. The new design has the vibe if the original MM and the MMX. I'll love to see the first build videos.
Long time viewer but I stopped watching your videos for a while as that was nothing like the original machine. Now I'm super excited again about where this is heading!
You're definitely on the right track :) I'm sure a couple of tweaks & refinement will help perfecting the design, but it's look very promising! As for the regular videos, do what you enjoy the most. If doing videos is a nice recreation, then you shouldn't "ought" not to do. Conversely, if enjoy more working on the machine, then go for it! In the end, it's your wellbeing that'll make or break this projet.
yes! its actually quite common to have rotating stages, so its not always necessary to build in, but some consideration should be given to make it work reliably when doing so
I love this idea! One of Martin's primary design requirements has been that the audience sees as much of the machine as possible. Now with this circular design motif, rotating the machine on stage makes so much sense!
Sad to see the shaker go after you put so much work into it, but do what you gotta do. If I could make a suggestion, and I don't know how viable this, but perhaps the side of your flywheel could have an attachment point for extra features like the shaker or some other mechanisms to be used on a per-song basis? But if that's not viable, it's no big deal. To be honest, I'm a little worried about the plywood, especially if you are go to be moving the machine around for tours. If it's just for looks, maybe a more sturdy metal skeleton under the wood would be a good idea, but I'm not an engineer, so maybe it would be okay.
I kinda already fell in love with the Marble Machine being a big part of the entire stage, whether it encapsulates the original charm of the Marble Machine or not, I think it's still a very good design 😅
Omg... The marble machine is going to be a marble machine again instead of a marble assembly line! I am excited again!
You should call it the Marble Machine 720, cus you went around the circle at least twice. 😁
Or better yet, the MMπ
Wouldn't the equivalent be 4π though
Martin can have a working copy of Atari's 720° in the lobby of the venues. It was a skateboarding video game which was the very first one to be created.
MM 4πrad😅
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
The most real comment. This journey after MM1 has never been about a finished, created machine. Doubts it ever will be.
lol
This is huge. This is the best vision of MM3 to date, excellent work Martin!!
The new machine design looks beautiful. One suggestion I would have is to add some color on the programming wheel, so from farther away, like from the seats during a concert, it's easier to see its movement in the windows of space in between the instruments.
Programming wheel needs moved to be directly behind Martin so we can see it rotate towards him.
Good idea. Also: while we're doing circles, why not put the levers in circular patterns as well?
@@EaglePicking Love the idea, and having the layout of the levers not in evenly spaced rows will make it easier for Martin to grab the right one more quickly. It’s why piano keys are not all the same. Imagine how much more difficult a keyboard would be to play if all the keys were the same and equally spaced.
so happy to see it come full circle to a "machine" not a massive stage-filling automata. Always felt a bit uneasy about the huge idea, can't wait for build videos :)
What I loved about MMX is the mix of wood and metal, it created such a nice visual and feel for the machine
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One suggestion; if you want to optionally add things like the shaker I would add an interface where you can add modules to the crank shaft, kinda like you can add accessories to a kitchen aid!
That way you can focus on building a marble machine now and if future songs demands things like a shaker or whatever, you can add that for that specific song!
The new machine design sound so much better, great work
Seems like you've really started to focus more on your experience and journey with the machine. Really happy for you, and I hope you continue to find fun in the experimentation and implementation of your machine and music in the new year!
Self-driving cars is like the overly complicated designs you've discarded for your machine. It's far more difficult and ultimately less effective than the time-tested and simpler solution of restoring our abandoned rail systems.
We already have the solution and we've had it for over a hundred years: design cities around people, not cars. Provide public transportation infrastructure for all. It took an enormous PR effort to make Americans "love their cars so much." We can turn it around.
Thank you! His statement "being agains self-driving cars is being for the status quo" really rubbed me the wrong way
Hell yeah trains beat everything, if you really can't make a train then we can have a bus, but pretending like self driving cars are the solution is solving the symptom not the problem
Thank you, that is a very important point~
@@simonvetter2420 It's like saying "being against diet soda is being for junk food". Everyone is so fixated on self-driving cars when the goal should be that cars in general are only a small component of our transportation diet.
I had a lot of mixed feelings about self-driving cars, but then I watched Not Just Bikes' video "How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)" and I was really impressed with their argument. They used lessons from history to explain how we got where we are with car culture, and made some very convincing predictions about the consequences of prioritizing self-driving cars.
yea the issue isn't "staying the same", but "staying with cars". there are simply wayyyy too many of them and it's so bad in so many ways. we can progress much quicker by simply eliminating most cars from the road, and "moving on" to solutions that already exist and don't require excessive engineering. it's so clear that martin hasn't had much research into this at all.
The marble machine is incredible, but I got to confess what always fascinates me is your journey and growth as an engineer. Wow! You’re becoming the poster child for great engineering. The lessons you have shared with us are so valuable. Blessings.
I don't think the discussion about AI self driving car is about having less people killed but in the meanwhile i will be waiting for a humanoid AI marble machine builder to build the marble machine x there will be a lot less of marble on the floor.
PS : trains are awesome safe and already self driving. Maybee we can get better public transport and people can drive as a hobby.
yeah, opposing self driving cars can mean opening streets to other kinds of locomotion instead, trains, trams, bikes, and the right to use your own two feet to explore the world, get inspired, love life. safer streets does not necessarily mean safer cars, it can mean other things.
This is ABSOLUTELY the correct sort of choices for this project. Make the best possible version of the thing you already made a couple of times. You don't need a box to do everything. You are building a mechanical member of your band that you can play in addition to the other instruments you play for the live show. You don't need to reinvent any kind of wheels here. just refine the already cool one you did. The refinement will look and sound better, and the tour/album cycle with it will be cool.
You can stabilize the plywood with vacuum resin impregnated wood. Basically it becomes plastic.
If that is the stuff I am thinking of and used as floor boards on decking, that stuff is practically indestructible.
And also very heavy. Maybe Martin should use carbon fiber... he'd have the added benefit of several more years of channel content while he learns to work with it. 😂
@billkeithchannel i think it is called marine grade. Used in boat building
Being against self driving cars isn't being for the status quo. There are other ways to improve the transportation of humans that reduce deaths and the effort a person has to move from one location to another. Namely proper public transportation, like buses and trains.
The advancements in FSD for cars will also be applied to bus transportation. Trains have always been poorly suited for transporting people, but efficiency per mile always tempt a certain kind of person want to make it work.
My problem with self driving cars is that they are still cars. Same thing with electric cars, it only solves one small part of the problem. If we apply actual design requirements to transportation, i'm pretty sure we'd end up with something radically different from cars :D
For sure.. what we should be working on is transporters so we can beam anywhere. 🤭
Marble machine retrieved it's soul !!! Crazy good and encouraging video, Merry Christmas !
Tô me black paint metal, maple plywood and acrylic was just chef's kiss perfect.
incredible job on the marble machines,
though I find I have to say that I do not think self driving cars are a likely solution, to me they simply seem to continue a wasteful system of transport with a handful of benefits under some circumstances but rarely a daily commute, so I think expanded public transport and more availability of bikes and other forms of non powered locomotion will probably be a better alternative in terms of resources, pollution, and footprint
Plywood for a machine that you plan to take on tours sounds like a bad idea
Easy to replace items on tour because of the cheap material and does not need expertise? 🤷
yeah, the balance of wood and metal that the MMX had was the best way to go about it. for parts that need critical dimensional stability, metal is too good not to use. everything else is beautiful in wood.
@@meneerkaat1638 problem is manufacturing. You can't manufacture that on the fly.
He might be able to get away with it as long as he limits the "plywood gears" to just the large ring gear, similar to the MMX. I don't recall the MMX having backlash issues. Also, he should probably bring spare parts of all the plywood parts with him on tour.
There's plywood and there's plywood. Martin can get high quality plywood and he has the tools to CNC it.
Being against self-driving cars is not being "for the status quo". Self driving cars are one solution (or even part of a solution) to a very complex problem of getting people from point A to point B. Individual cars, moving individual people is a very inefficient system. Even if the technology worked perfectly there are social and ecological problems with cars that might cause some to oppose this shift toward leaning into cars as a solution.
The money and effort put into trying to make self-driving cars work is so much larger and with more backing than other transportation solutions. Not to say that self-driving cars can't be part of the solution, but often this "black and white" mindset of "if you're not with us, you're against us" ultimately hurts the landscape of transportation technology in the US (maybe worldwide).
I will admit, the progress we've made is impressive, and it is likely safer than human drivers, but so are trains and busses and any number of other solutions.
This is one part of an otherwise great video, I hate that a small comment like this had to spoil an otherwise great experience and watch... Looking forward to what you make of the new marble machine (if you end up reading this)
The shaker idea was cool, but I agree with you about removing it from the main machine. You could easily make the shaker a much smaller seperate machine that's on stage with you that's powered by an electric motor. The cool part about your machines is the visual mechanics of them, not that they are hand cranked or human powered.
I've always found it interesting how it can be easy to accidentally do something right, but difficult to figure out why and do it again.
There was no limit to Leonardo’s genius. The man was very much ahead of his time.
When it comes to this most recent design for MM3, it’s really giving the look of the Acoustic Curves Animusic video. I love it!
Now we're talking business. Amazing design❤
I am very much looking forward to your videos in 2025! Im very happy when a new one comes out, it does not matter how often.
I loved the wood and metal combo on MMX...
Hell yeah Martin! Great to see you recaptured the beauty of the original while making something new, unique and elegant! I really like this design and im happy to say it looks very do-able! A clear vision, and the knowledge, mindset and skillset that can achieve it, 2025 and Marble Machine is looking very bright! Cant wait to see your next video! :) Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and the entire community! :)
i love this one so much and it feels like it could be played as part of an orchestra
Thank you Martin!
I've enjoyed your work since the Detektivbyrån days, and it’s incredible to see how far you’ve come as a creator. Your dedication to the Marble Machine project is truly inspiring-an amazing testament to perseverance and creative vision. You show us all that with the right perspective and effort, even the most daunting projects can be brought to life. And, of course, when things don’t go as planned, there’s always the angle grinder to help reset the course!
The new design for the updated Marble Machine feels like a perfect evolution-it captures the exciting spirit of the original while refining and expanding on it in a really thoughtful way.
I don’t see your journey as going in circles but as following a Fibonacci Spiral: each iteration brings you closer to your goal, even if it feels like you're retracing steps. Every adjustment and insight adds up, inching you toward the balance between practical engineering and artistic vision.
Can’t wait to see where the spiral leads next!
Excited to see the future of the channel in 2025. Martin is our modern day Leonardo Da Vinci.
18:44 watch not just bikes, don't believe this bs.
Just to echo what I’m seeing all over the comments, I LOVE this new “full circle” theme; A true ad fontus! This looks like a unique, thoughtful machine again and I am excited to see you work on it next year!
This is HUGE personal growth. Well done! We're looking forward to fewer, 'better', videos this coming year. So glad you didn't give up. We think you're on the right track. Remember, 1st thoughts are just your knee jerk response to a situation. Think again! Go to and good luck. x
Love that you’re finally understanding what makes this project fun and enjoyable both for yourself and for viewers. Been a long time subscriber and for the longest time I sat here banging my head against a wall out of frustration when you were getting lost in the weeds about “perfection” and became obsessive over the most minuscule details that to most viewers do not matter and would not change the listening experience of the end result. We just want to see a cool machine! And if a couple marbles fall on the floor, so what? I’m happy to hear that MM3 may actually be a possibility now that your view towards the project has shifted 🙏
Looks good! Two questions ...
How will mid-air marble collisions be avoided?
How will we avoid a lot of noise from marbles landing after that big drop?
Both questions have the same answer: this is about ad revenue and parteon money, the real machine will never actually be built - so there will be no collisions nor noise.
I predict there will be a full blown episode where he'll attempt to tackle that. Though I could've sworn we've been there before ...
Everything is a circle, you say, but the platform you're standing on is a square!
But seriously, huge improvement and great job.
Ok, you are back on track!
Research is never a bad thing. You may not use your shaker, but someone else may. I've enjoyed your journey of discovery.
no matter what you do, i'm here for it!
One thing to keep in mind with this design is that you introduce the possibility of marble collisions, especially if 2 notes that are near each other are played at the same time.
We out here doing real Clockpunk, awesome 👏
Had no doubt you'd figure it out.
One of my favorite parts about your journey is your openness to share your process. You can see each iteration take small bits and pieces from the previous machines; growing (or sometimes shrinking) and evolving what we’ll eventually cheer for live.
Here’s to the next iteration 😅
I'm so excited the marble machine is returning to a design that is actually one machine and taking into account the aesthetics and art of it!
Wow, that is beautiful! It feels like a complete unit, and will look so cool with the waterfall of marbles playing the music.
Good to see that you're listening to our feedback on the visual identity of the machine. Having it be the size of the stage with all the parts strewn about was never going to have that singular "instrument" identity as a machine the size of a bookshelf or two. Audiences have never gone crazy over seeing a huge Modular Synth on a stage, since there's no singular element to focus on.
What a great compliment to receive. You have fun building your dreams and I assure you that we will enjoy them to.
One thing that's still on my mind is if you want a second marble to drop on the drum fast after the first one doesn't the time fluctuate due to the drum moving. You probably found this already out but I'm wondering.
I have been folowing your journey for years and seeing you make this wears tear around has been a joy! Thank you for sharing your personal progress. If its the journey and not the destination this project is already a succes! And i have no douth there is more to come.
Glad to see chat was able to unionize and get the appropriate treatment for the industrial revolution and enter into a new renaissance.
Glad to see you back at it ❤
The MMB really will be the miracle music box, won't it? I think the direction you're going is the best one!
Es fantastico poder volver a escuchar tus videos en Español con la inteligencia artificial...espero que en el futuro sigas haciendolo...gracias !!!
Yes. Martin, more of this please! Beautiful
This video and everything said in here is what I've been waiting for, for years. Thank you, Martin. This is awesome, you're definitely going in the right direction, and this project will be a complete success. I don't believe so anymore, I know so.
love the new direction! keep it up. Can't wait to see this come to life.
This is such an amazing journey and will continue to ride this wave of knowledge and excitement with you and everyone else!
The marble catch at the bottom should be one of those large flat funnels they always have at children's science museums. I think it would put the circle theme front and center, plus the chaos of marbles bouncing and colliding, then circling into the middle would be really mesmorizing.
Annd..we're back! love the new design
This design looks absolutely beautiful!
I think it's great you've explored lots of possible ways you could go and saw the pros and cons of each. I'm still loving the journey and every video!
Happy to see you again 😊 the new machine looks beautiful
1) You should make more music!!
2) Make sure this new machine can break down easily into a shipping container!
3) I have a Tesla Model 3 with FSD. I have 105K miles on that car, 90% in FSD. It's a life saver.
Its amazing how your journey is one hundreds of us can relate to. Keep up the great work!
YES! Bring back plywood! That was the coolest part about it. It's something any person can be like, I could probably make that. Much more immersive.
Hannes: What are you doing?
Martin: Making Coffee.
Hannes: To stay awake while designing?
Martin: No, staining birch plywood.
This looks like a fusion of a Musicbox and a Ferrari, soooo cool!
Brave decision Martin! It is beautiful. You can use fiberglass and epoxy to strengthen the plywood.
You have reeled a massive audience back with your rediscovery of the marble machine’s identity.
Love the direction you're taking it, these all seem right decisions. Good to Wilson back. 😊
Best design yet!
Now this is exciting; best present ever!!
The king is back happy to see you
The Animusic vibes are strong with this one!
This is clearly the best iteration. Go for it.
Definitely getting there! You do realize that you could make the machine out of some light,strong composite and just make it look like wood, either through paint or wrap or some other techniques. Good luck, really looking forward to progress!
I think you are on the right track, with the circular theme.
Imo it should with a focus on organic design, implementing concepts like the golden ration, the Fibonacci sequence, and squircles into the design, which could help it almost seem alive!
You shouldn't unlearn anything. Your path through this project has been ongoing learning experience. Use everything you have learnt to create the ultimate machine.
Very happy to support you. Truly interesting and enjoyable to watch you go through this process. Can't wait to see the end result, whenever that may be 😊
That looks awesome! The funnel looks like a french horn. So, IMO, it fits great aesthetically. The old designs looked like an industrial frame rather than an instrument.
Perhaps we're witnessing the Reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci with all these badass marble machines in mere span of 10 years !!!
I loved the original MM, then MMX was the better version of it and i loved it even more. The combination of plywood with metal still made it feel homemade, yet it looked sturdy and higher quality. It perfectly captured the feel of MM1, but was going to be the perfected design.
That being said, it's understandable I and many others didn't like the large machines you designed exactly for the reasons you described, so I'm really happy the original dense design is back!
Also i think part of the "magic" of MM1 and MMX was the feeling that you get when looking at something complex and not being able to make out how exactly it works. The dense boxy design where everything obstructs everything so you can't get a propper look helps this sensation, but a spread-out machine where everything is well organised looks very simple even if it's much more complex.
A reason for this might be that our brains are very much "optimization-focused". A spread-out design invokes the feeling that you could've built it much more compact. A person looking at it could go like "Pfft, I could've built that with some time and money!". But a machine filled with gears and flywheels to the point where it doesn't let light shine through makes you wonder "how the hell did he fit all of that machinery into such tight space?" even if it's like 80% empty air.
Use water filled flywheels to reduce weight for transport.
I Love this concept! MM is on the road again :D
Onto a new productive and fun year!
Thanks for the jouney so far and for a longer journey still!!!
Merry Christmas to you wintergaten
So happy that Martin is kinda back on track after trying to make MM3 a bit too.... big. The new design has the vibe if the original MM and the MMX. I'll love to see the first build videos.
Long time viewer but I stopped watching your videos for a while as that was nothing like the original machine. Now I'm super excited again about where this is heading!
You're definitely on the right track :) I'm sure a couple of tweaks & refinement will help perfecting the design, but it's look very promising!
As for the regular videos, do what you enjoy the most. If doing videos is a nice recreation, then you shouldn't "ought" not to do. Conversely, if enjoy more working on the machine, then go for it! In the end, it's your wellbeing that'll make or break this projet.
Thank you for brining us along on your trip through the wilderness, I am glad that you now see the destination and we are still invited
hmm, that circular stage could even rotate during the show, allowing people to see the machine from all sides
yes! its actually quite common to have rotating stages, so its not always necessary to build in, but some consideration should be given to make it work reliably when doing so
I love this idea! One of Martin's primary design requirements has been that the audience sees as much of the machine as possible. Now with this circular design motif, rotating the machine on stage makes so much sense!
So, back to where the dream sparked. Marble Machine Magic is back. ^_^
Sad to see the shaker go after you put so much work into it, but do what you gotta do. If I could make a suggestion, and I don't know how viable this, but perhaps the side of your flywheel could have an attachment point for extra features like the shaker or some other mechanisms to be used on a per-song basis? But if that's not viable, it's no big deal.
To be honest, I'm a little worried about the plywood, especially if you are go to be moving the machine around for tours. If it's just for looks, maybe a more sturdy metal skeleton under the wood would be a good idea, but I'm not an engineer, so maybe it would be okay.
To be for self driving cars IS to be for the status quo. Its still cars.
I kinda already fell in love with the Marble Machine being a big part of the entire stage, whether it encapsulates the original charm of the Marble Machine or not, I think it's still a very good design 😅
Great design and ideas. Looking forward to it.
I love being on this journey of discovery with you!
I love to see a further exploration into the aesthetic options.