I Built a Marble Machine that Makes Pixel Art
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Join me as I use the whole plethora of mechatronic tools to build a machine capable of generating 32x32 pixel images. The balls are methodically dumped into the frame with a sliding funnel system. Motorized hoppers control the release of the marbles. Once an image has been formed, the machine automatically dumps all the balls out of the screen and sorts them back into their respective hoppers based on their color.
0:29 - The Concept
1:08 - Color Detection and Sorting
4:00 - Motorized Hopper System
5:38 - Innovating on the Lift Conveyor
8:30 - The Big Build Begins
11:44 - Trouble
12:50 - Wiring/Electronics and First Tests
14:45 - Making Pictures with Marbles
That is amazing. One day, historians will look back, confused at society's brief obsession with marble machines.
Haha thanks Sean! Maybe 🤔 glad to have a place in it
Two of my favorite creators! 😊
Jay this is insane! I did not understand the scale of this from your shorts lolol i am blown away. So many moving parts and systems talking to each other - I bet you must've been in integration hell for a while. Really enjoy your story telling on this - and the animation in the beginning was top notch. This may be my favorite video of yours!
YOO IM SUBBED HIII
When are gonna finish your mini bowing set?
@@bjb1016 lolol working on it right now brother 🫡
Thanks dude! I know you can relate to a project like this, integration hell is no joke! Also thanks for appreciating the animation, Im still sore from drawing all those tiny circles
Do NOT underestimate the engineering complexity of marble machines
*Wintergatan Flashbacks*
One must imagine Wintergartan happy
CONGRATS! followed the whole build. I was in charge of building a restaurant where they would have LOVED this, so you have commercial use here. If there's any way you can attach a small, simple photo booth that you lean in and it captures your face and builds it in marbles, you could create a very commercial personal touch to it. Disney, Universal, etc would buy it for showing their characters. CONGRATS!
PS -- it would be a great distraction in long lines for rides
Love the idea! Open to it all haha.
Hey!.. here a 16 year old teenage boy from india and it's 4:10 AM here at night..one day i was just scrolling and i saw those marble color sorting shorts of yours..i got so curious to see that and as you said that it's a part of a much bigger project i subscribed and watched a couple of your older videos..they were absoultely fantastic💫🌻..and today when i was about to go to bed the most awaited video comes!❤❤..i took my earphones and quickly watched it❤..it's so good❤..hope to see you and the project in real life someday!🤞🏻..i was so excited to see these projects coz I'm too going to be an engineer soon🤞🏻..you earned a new subscriber Man!💛🌻..Hats Off!..
EDIT : I wish getting a heart from you😅
This video is 28 minutes old and has a 17 minute duration. And you already watched this one AND a COUPLE of other videos?
@@Rob_III I watched a couple of other videos when I saw those shorts earlier..
Appreciate you following along! Wishing you the best of luck, engineering is hard but so worth it. 👊👊
@@Engineezy Yupp💛..
yooooooo epic ( i watched the shorts!!!)
Same!!!
Same
Much appreciated!
could have been way simpler but the complexity of it makes it more visually appealing but to me stuff like this is what youtube is all about so thanks for the contribution.
Shoot, all of your other projects pale in comparison to this! I would kill to have a miniature 3D print of the marble clock on my desk, but this thing as a WALL MOUNT?! I loved following along with the shorts, and the anticipation of this "Bigger project" was WORTH THE WAIT!! I'm just a wee lil Graphic Designer, and sometimes, this kind of stuff makes me want to change my career altogether... ❤ Phenomenal stuff, dude!! Keep shooting for the skies and REACHING THE STARS!!
This. This thing. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST! I swear to god I was kind of excited for all of the times you hinted at making this with the marble sorter vids, so it's nice to finally be able to see the finished products! Nice work man, here's to get to 1 mil by the end of the year!
You, Ivan Miranda and Wintergatan... everyone been building big marble machines lately!
Man what an incredible video! Been anticipating for the past few days. Always love seeing engineers do their thing, but that may be the most engaging RUclips video I’ve seen in a while!! That being said, I love the pacing, but if you ever wanted to do longer form videos where you can dive deep on the work, issues, and other small nuances I’m sure you could keep at least me hooked! Thanks for all the hard work just to entertain us, its a joy to see the final products every time!
😍 this is another level of awesome Jay! Clearly a lot of work and iterations for an incredible final outcome. Also why is it so satisfying when it releases and clears at the end?! Such emotion.
Thanks Prash! So much work, but so worth it! The satisfaction level of release was such a happy accident
You should make it draw your profile picture and some projects you've made before
I tried! Didnt turn out that well haha
@@Engineezy The marble machine is so cool though! It is Pixel art, so it does kinda make sense why it didn't work out too much, but making simple objects like the ones you made works so flawlessly!
I have been looking forward to this project, anticipation was high and this did not disappoint! Awesome video man, thanks for creating and sharing this kind of content
Glad to hear it! Thanks for following along 👊
I can’t wait for the full length stop motion, animation film using this system
It's fun to see the finished product after keeping up with the progress on Instagram!
Dude, that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen anyone make with additive manufacturing! Congrats, braheim!
Thanks dude 👊👊 appreciate it
Great video. Appreciate seeing all the challenges and the end success!
Dude… this is insane! I’ve been subbed for a while, but this is by far my favorite thing you have made! I love working with marbles too and I hope to be as good as you one day 😁
This is wild. This is like 10 significant projects in one 😅 I kind of want to make one of those useless marble lift loops for my desk now
Once you fix the bowing plexiglass, it's definitely time to do stop-motion animation. You should be able to upload in an arbitrary movie, have each frame approximated with your few colors (shades of gray might be better), draw the frame, take a pic, move on to next frame.
That would be amazing! Def does need some improvements before that but it is very doable!
12:47 that moment is one of my favorite moments.
A different idea would be to replace the solenoid under the color sensor with a stepper motor turning a coil spring and plunger. They would then launch the ball at different Arc angles directly into the screen lanes with any unused marbles would just be shot to the very end and recycled. No sorting required.
I have been waiting so long! lol! Great work, I’ve officially become a subscriber! Keep it up(:❤
Congrats from one Pixel Art Marble Machine engineer to another! 💪 I thought about using the Lego robotics color sensor for marble sorting, but haven't tried it. Any ideas why the marble stacks are sagging in the middle?
Those trace-like marble routes look sick! Equally spaced tubes just plain look good. The column selectors are a work of genius, I never would've thought of that in years! Awesome project!
Glad you can appreciate them- that part alone was so tricky to get right
Absolute madness!! (and great video!!) 😂 I couldn't imagine building such a massive complex machine and not being able to test it until its practically fully assembled. You are brave lol
also, can't wait for V2 that changes images at 30 FPS 😳
Thanks Steven! Has not been easy, and not testing till its done is scary af- lots to learn from this for v2
Quite impressive! Have you considered making videos of the ongoing process? That is, set up a couple cameras and screen recorders to record the entire design, build, test, disassemble, rebuild, etc. process - no voice over, or significant editing (just edit out the inactivity or non-relevant activities. You could set up a second channel for that stuff, as it would only be of interest to engineering geeks such as myself who love watching the entire process, not just the highly edited end result videos (which I am honestly much less into). I am retired, but I was a computer systems engineer for over three decades, and started my education as a mechanical engineer, though my career took me down a different path, which I genuinely wish was not the case, as working with my hands, building things, has always been much more enjoyable than just sitting down and poring through reams of documentation an doing hour upon hour upon hour of math. At least I had the pleasure of building the machines and systems I designed, even if they were 90+% solid-state.
Anyhow, whether you choose to do something like my suggestion or not, I heartily applaud what you do!
Very sick! I noticed that the center marbles are kind of dipping lower than the outer ones, might need some more support in the center?
This is pretty cool. If this could be scaled up to about 3x3 of these panels it would make for a really cool automatic display somewhere. The only question I have is how far of a drop and how many stacked marbles can there before you shatter a marble...
So fun!! What are the chances that “one” could code a design for this guy? 😉 Looks amazing - congrats!
Send it over! It would need to be a 32x32 array formatted for Arduino- each element is the color number 0-7, looking forward to seeing what you come up with
0:44 the title on the white board 😂😂😂😂 I'm afraid i coyld write that in sharpie on my whiteboard of projects 😭🤣😂
1:10 RBG!
Sorry to nitpick but it's right there on the board. Red, green, blue. Looking forward to the rest of the video though, I've been tracking your progress through the shorts you've released.
How about making a stop motion marble video? Some folks render Bad Apple as a demo for small displays but any small pixel art would do such as classic animated gifs.
So freaking awesome!
Amazing project!!! 👏👏
Utterly awesome. Very well done sir. :)
Amazing! Though I do spot few balls stuck. Maybe need slight rework of channels there to loosen it up just a tiny bit.
Phone people statues spotted
So good, great job keeping your cool 👍
absolutely nuts bro you're a goat. Can't wait to see what's next!
🙏🙏🙏
Insanity. Worth watching and waiting for!
Not even a minute in and there are already marbles on the floor!
What’s causing the middle to sag/droop?
Probably the weight of the marbles. He needs to add some supports in the center of the bottom of the frame.
Interesting enough, its the front acrylic screen bowing from the weigh- I used 3mm thick material and really did not expect this. V2 would have thicker glass which would solve the problem
I agree with @@Centauri902.
The weight of the marbles is likely pushing the front Perspex away from the 3D printed channels, meaning the marbles don't quite stack on top of each other.
If the machine was leaned back on an angle, that would likely reduce the issue. Thicker Perspex would probably also work.
Super cool
Thank you!
after stumbling across your video more than a month ago, ive always thought this was just going to be a marble sorter but this is way better!
Glad I was able to deliver!
Broo I need to sleep. I got a surgery in 6 hours.. nvmd gonna watch this anyways 😅
😂😂 good luck!
So so so so so so cool
Finally 🎉! i have been waiting for so long to see what the shorts were leading up to. I frickin love this channel.
Edit: Grammar
Lost scale at 14:15 for a sec, thought the machine got massive all the sudden
Impressive as hell, how long did this project take from concept to completion??
Insane project. MarBelous
Indeed 🙏🙏
I’m a high school agriculture/metal shop teacher. I’ve been very interested in learning basic automation design/coding but I have no idea where to start. Do you offer classes or know a good place where I could start? LOVE your videos by the way!
You should make it so your pc takes a photo of your current screen and sends that image to the marble machine to make a extremely slow, hyper low quality monitor
Your channel makes my brain hurt! Great work!!
I got to see your preview on RUclips shorts:)
Ha. All those shorts later. Here we are!!
Design and build quality are both obnoxiously clean 🤤
Appreciate you appreciating! So much time and thought goes into that
That is a beast. But my ADHD brain is just focusing on the odds marble not in their right bin 😂 I guess it has to do with lighting when the sensor read the color. However I am perplexed by the red/black mismatch 😅 Blue/black I could understand. Cyan and Turquoise too. But red/black?
04:20 4 life
0:20 was that scripted?
The plan was to drop it on the how hard could it be 🤫
Now just make it refresh its image at 60 frames per second and you'll really have something. BTW, you misspelled "please". Yup, I'm THAT guy.
😂😂 ran out of room for the A
Awesome, but what if bigger?
It's amazing you can take your knowledge and imagination to create something like this and I'm just getting into coding and arduinos, etc. and having a blast learning, but run into coding issues all the time. But the satisfaction you get when it works is the golden ticket. I just finished building a fully functioning life-size R2D2 Droid and it took me two years after changing the control and drive system three times. Now I bring it to events and show off my talent!
Absolutely, that feeling of troubleshooting and making it work is like no other feeling!
Engineezy-Wintergaten collab please! 😊
This entire machine is a work of art in belongs in the lobby of an engineering firm or a science museum or something. This is really one of the coolest things I've seen with 3D printing. Well done!
Thank you! Appreciate it!
As someone in school right now for mechanical engineering this is probably one of the coolest and most inspiring videos I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing such an awesome project!
Always love hearing that my work inspires, best of luck with your degree. Hard but worth it
This is what you were doing!
😅😅 yess
I've prefer to use Dot products when checking how close a color is to a desired target color, did you explore various options and land on the Euclidian distance for any specific reasons?
This is epic. I’ve watched all the shorts of you making it, and it must be so rewarding to finally get it done
You have no idea 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
I think martin at @wintergatan should have this in the background when he plays the MMX3 on the world route.
That would be fun and very fitting
Now do bad apple on it
Nice job btw :)
Ill have to try it!
outstanding results
I feel smarter every video, keep it up I need to graduate college
Haha glad I can be of assistance
I knew the project had to be this with all the color sorting you were doing! This turned out insanely cool 😎
Yes! Thank you!
Amazing! After watching all the shorts and waiting on this video, it’s better than I expected!
Really appreciate that!
Million view video. Calling it now.
🤞🤞 appreciate it
I am flabergast !
You have to make the Maple Leaf logo and make it
show on the big screen on a Maple Leaf game !
that would be perfect !
That would be cool!
Omg that is even better than what I was thinking it was gonna be from the TikTok videos! Great job on making this project and video!
Thank you so much!!
engineezy ❌ enginhard ✅ (nobody has ever made this joke before)
Now- make it able to print QR Codes. :P
What is causing the design to look like it is sagging in the middle at the top? The marbles look like they are perfectly straight across the bottom.
This is honestly the most impressive and beautiful work i have ever seen from you, instant like!
Wow, thank you!
Awesome project! but it's time to ask the real question: Can it display Doom? ;)
Coming in 2025 perhaps 🤔
A simple funnel would have save you a lot of those lost marvels 🤷♂️
Funny enough, I found one and finally started using one at the very end of the project and it really did help
I'm very impressed after seeing the many shorts. This looks extremely hard to conceptualize
I honestly did think it wouldnt be too hard- turns out it was haha!
Best thing I've seen on RUclips in a long time. Awesome!
Wow, thanks 👊👊👊
All that epic work and it didnt take him even a minute!! Awesome talent ❤
Thank you! Definitely was a grind at points haha
Holy shit this is peak
13:06 "there's literally not a single operation you could do with these where you don't lose at least some marbles" have you ever heard of wintergatan?
For clarification, wintergatan loses marbles every 5 seconds
😂😂😂
1:10 RPG value...
sick tbh pretty unexpected from the shorts
🙏🙏
Your ad segments are better than average
Haha thanks, not gonna lie I was pretty happy with how this one turned out
How did you learn to do this? serious question
Started in University (Bachelor of Engineering) and then continued making stuff and making stuff until I got here. Still so much more to learn though
Yes but does it play tight music?
IVE BEEN SO EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THIS WAS GOING!!!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Can it run doom?
Engineezy 2025
@@Engineezy That would be so cool! Maybe like a time lapse shot of frames rendering from the first level
Now make it simultaneously play music
Yesss i been waiting for thisss
🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love this video new sub
Yesss! Thank you!
average person arriving here early rushing to type some form of "this is amazing" in hopes of getting likes (they didnt even watch the video yet)