Here are some answers to the most common questions here: - The sag in the middle of the image is interestingly a result of the bowing of the front acrylic plate (never would’ve predicted that). The channels are slightly too deep, which is a dimension I adjusted on the second print of the channel sections. This allows the marbles to stagger a little bit which pushes outward on the front panel. The largest deflection of the panel is right in the centre, which is why only the centre columns of marbles sag, and why its only noticeable once the small fractions of displacement build up over the whole frame. Very interesting indeed. Simple fix is to make the channels slightly less deep, and use a thicker front plate. - The refresh rate is 0.0008hz or one image for every 15 minutes - Much of the marbles being in the wrong hoppers is actually a result of the hoppers being too small. When the marbles pile up and I don’t catch it in time, they then pile up in the sorting tube and get dumped randomly in any of the sorting tubes. The fix is simple, just make bigger hoppers. That being said, the only marbles it sometimes mixes up is the mint and light blue, which I will definitely find a way to fix for v2 - My switch feedback system was slightly off in dimension (were talking like a half mm) so I had to mount all the switches with hotglue instead of reprinting the entire piece. This lead to some errors where more than 1 marble would get dropped, particularly with the black and white marbles (those were the first switches I glued in, mustve been slightly off). For v2, I will likely change from a mechanical switch to an ir sensor to solve this, and then use stepper motors on the hoppers for more precision! - I used Arduino to code this whole machine - It could probably play bad apple, but Im going to save it for v2 which will work perfectly and hopefully way faster! - I am aware that I look like Harrison Wells, but if you’re asking me I look way more like a young Jerry Seinfeld - The marble drop at 0:20 was supposed to happen on “how hard could it be” but they wanted their freedom early and nothing was stopping them - No it cannot run doom…yet
Gg making a poopy scoopy. Make the sorter switcher be rotational instead of angular. Make tryptophobia work for you beautifully like lotus flowers…or opium.
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.
The simplest answer would just be to not use plexiglass. A regular glass pane, possibly tempered if available in that size, would probably be rigid enough. Or if you wanted to stick with the plexiglass, bonding it to the tops of the fins between the channels might do it, provided the weight and impact force of the marbles doesn't cause the fins to separate. I think one of the hardest things about this build might be that there are too many potentially valid ways to solve each problem, so it's hard to know what to choose.
This is the PERFECT demonstration of the disconnect the VAST majority of engineers have when implementing their CAD designs to construction. I can’t tell you how many times, on EVERY job mind you, having to go back to the engineer due to their plans not even remotely close to working, let alone passing inspections. Yet every time you go back to them with the problem, they’ll first take offense to it as if “how dare you question my design. Who’s the one that went to school for it?”. Followed with “well, make it work. What do you want me to do about it?”, as if they were never taught that during inspection, the inspector goes off the PRINTS! I truly believe that whatever field an engineer is working in, that they need at least 1yr of on the field training(more depending on field) to gain experience and closing the gap of disconnect between the classroom and job site.
@@PepperGizmo42 This is an ignorant thing to say. Engineezy used electrical components and software to deliberately control every moving part on the machine. Martin is relying solely on mechanical movements. I'm not sure if you've watched Martin's latest content recently, but he is also "actually making something". Sure, it's a bunch of wood, screws, and rubber bands with a janky setup to test the ideas. It's called prototyping...
@@PepperGizmo42 think a second. this machine is nice, but lacks precision, you see in the final images hanging the top layers through, not being on the same line, at least one marble being detected wrong. fixing these details eats most of the time, but just ignoring it and one video is produced which is also fine. moving on. comparing that to what MMX was capable the hours tests of liability towards its end, not even mentioning producing content for years. I like the current engineering content and approaches of Martin. it teaches a lot. and it feels that he's on the right track. not a one-month project. might not entertain everyone. and doesn't have to.
Beautiful work. Here's a rarely-considered fact (from a guy who has sorted countless marbles): consumer-grade marbles are not held to very tight tolerances! If marbles were put into this machine straight out of the mail, it's safe to say that probably more than a few errors were caused by size discrepancies. Standard marbles are sold as 9/16", but that number is just their _average_ size. On top of this complication, marbles will also vary with respect to roundness. Eccentricity is a whole 'nother thing to test for; a simple rail-sorting machine can easily screen for size, but such screenings assume a marble is perfectly spherical, and thus multiple screenings (of the same set) are necessary to determine their degree of roundness. Forget that, though. An occasional error makes the final product a charming work of art. It's almost better that way. More uncertain. More human.
This is incredible. Honestly the most persuasive thing to get a 3D printer. My son has an engineering mind and really loves building things. I’m going to show him what he could do if he wanted to. This is so cool!!!
Jay creates complex machines to make pixel art with balls while wintergaten makes complex machines to play music and Ivan makes complex machines just to show a clock with seconds
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!
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
Not gonna lie, Im a shitty person whos been in the fabrication and machining industry far too long, and usually am rolling my eyes making derisive comments at these videos (I WATCH THEM BECAUSE IM INTERESTED!!! IT DOESNT HAVE TO MAKE SENSE TO YOU! YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF MY ACTIONS HOLDS ZERO IMPACT UPON THEM, HOW DARE YOU ASSUME OTHERWISE!!!) for any number of reasons. But even I, the salty grump that I am, was legitimately impressed by using those spring steel strips as a sort of compliant funnel! Like, 100% awesome method of tapping into the innate aspects of a materials construction! Everything else is just sort of brute forcing the problem (we dont have time to go into why that bugs me so much, since I know yall are waiting on bated breath for an explanation, but lets just go with you know when someone does something the exact way you wouldnt and you have the thought "this is why we cant be friends" ? Its sort of like that) but that choice...[chefs kiss]...perfecto. Now....to leave a comment regarding the choice of control schema....[puts ass hat back on]....In this essay I will....
If it took off, someone would just make a filter that does the same thing and sell it for $5. He couldn't even sue because pixel art has been around for something like 40 years.
@@robwilkes3351 we musn't let the trepidation of litigation impede our design and creativity. For doing so will mean we've succumbed to liberal socialism.
@MisterEdude I'm guessing you mean "what if they steal the idea of the marble machine". You can patent a particular presentation of an idea, but not the idea itself. So if someone built A marble machine there's nothing he can do. If they stole his exact designs then he'd have a case.
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!
It may not be the highest resolution photo, but the fact that it's made out of solid objects instead of pixels and built entirely mechanically is immensely impressive.
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!
As a Python coder and electrical designer/ robotics hobbyist that is starting to dabble in CAD and wants to start 3d printing... this video was even more inspirational to keep pursuing my dream. And definitely got a another subscriber who's gonna back watch a lot of videos later. Already also visualizing changes and or modifications you could do to improve that system alone. So cool.
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!
Eat your heart out Ivan Miranda/Wintergataan! There's a new mechanical marble marvel madman. This is an incredible build with 10/10 engineering/suffering. I also loved the Foley work with the intro illustrations.
I followed Wintergatan for years but got tired of him, and follow Miranda in his current project. I can honestly say this guy took it to the next level engineering wise.
Thanks DeeJ! The engineering/suffering was absolutely 10:10 on this one haha! Also thanks for appreciating that animation I spent 5 more hours on it than I was expecting
This is crazy impressive! I can’t even imagine how much time and headaches went into producing such an amazing result. The clear parts allowing you to see through to the mechanics is a nice touch too. Fantastic job!
Two impressive youtubers taking on similar marble sorting problems but with different solutions is only made better by the fact they released videos in close proximity.
@@anubis520funny you said that because so many people commented on Ivan's videos to make the marbles to be placed vertically instead of horizontally and yet he insisted in the harder way
This is so cool and I admire you so much for making this :0 also, I really appreciate the visual design things you thought about when making it too :) adds an excellent amount of whimsy
Jay, my new all time favorite. I said in the beginning and say it again, you’re brilliant. After all these years you know two things will happen 1. You have to rebuild because of something and 2. You always have to make it better, faster and bigger. You’re better than ever! This was extra better and amazing. Keep doing what you do! 😎
I purchased and assembled your mechanical 7-segment display, and I was delighted with the fantastic result. This project is truly epic and it left a more impression on me!!
I think the rendering would be more satisfying to watch if channels were picked at random. And sometimes have a channel fill only partly before it switches to another channel, and then it come back to finish. Basically less predictability in how the marbles drop will make it more fun to watch.
@@Engineezy Could have it do all the marbles of a single color per column, then move to the next column, and then use the next color in the stack. Kind of unclear how it's switching colors, but could potentially be simpler/faster.
@@JZStudiosonline I think moving the top funnel from column to column is slower than switching colors (since each stack of marbles is always ready to go). So I think this already has the fastest method. But that doesn’t invalidate your idea of changing the drawing method
3:45 "I feel like this would get boring to watch".. Ah, there it is. The curse of the inner engineer fighting the inner artist, lol. I almost feel PTSD from Wintergaten's channel.
@@Engineezy I work on a lot of smaller projects so I fully appreciate the iterative nature of these projects and sometimes the time sink investigating down a rabbit hole that leads to no where and having to backtrack hours and hours of work on a dead end.
Your design and engineering is obviously great, but I just wanted to say that you are REALLY good at this RUclips thing! The video itself is truly top notch! Your presentation and explanation, the cinematography and editing... exceptional and very engaging! And all the shorts that led up to this were great, too! I actually found your channel from the shorts. Keep it up. I may be late to the party, but I'm here for it now!
Hey man! Great job, you are so inspiring! I have been anticipating what this whole project was going to be, I have been watching since the very beginning and am so happy to see this working and it is so satisfying, thank you for going through all the trial and error for this to work, this is amazing and I hope you keep it up, but give yourself a break, relax a bit, I know this was not easy. I can't wait to see what you do next, thank you so much!!!
You are the first person to ever say what training you had. Had I known this was mechanical engineering I would have entered that field of study 9 years ago
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!
as a retired electrical engineer that is totally infatuated with 3D printing and ESP32 and marbles, this video just captivated me (as all your videos do, TBH). Thanks for entertaining me! I love this! Now that you've worked out all the bugs on the design, time to share the STL's and programs!!! Watching that marble sorter was sooo satisfying. LoL
That is so sick, great job! I feel like a relatively easy upgrade to this project would be to make the current “frame” into just a hidden queue and add a another frame below that. Make it so it displays image 1 in the bottom from until image 2 is completely finished in the hidden queue, clear the bottom frame and drop in image 2. That way it’s always displaying a full image and can be like a cool little art piece. Plus you have 99% of the mechanics completed already. Either way, amazing work!
I don't know the timestamp but there are also blue balls in the black ball track and there are miscolored and misplaced marbles in ALL of the pictures. Surprised me that he didn't mention anything about the issues the machine was still having when they are so obvious. It's still really cool and it'd be nice to hear there are still glitches to work out instead of ignoring them 😂
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!
Love all these fun projects! Also love seeing all the ways you come up with to solve the problems and somehow always still making everything visually satisfying
Dude. Not only are you good looking, you’re an amazing engineer I always wanted to be. All of your projects are stuff that is my cup of tea! Thank you for living my dream!
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!!
Hey I really liked this but the best part was you actually showing the things that didn't work first time! Showing the faults just helps people understand that not everything works as expected first time and you always have to go back and adjust. This is life so thanks for that and what a great job you did. Well done 😀😀
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!
I remember when shorts about the first pieces for this machine started popping up in my shorts. It came out very good and specially beautiful. Congratulations for the project mate!
I just found your channel yesterday. This is amazing! If it wasn't for the 420 clock (no judgements here, lol) I would think about showing it to my HS intro to engineering students. You showcase the engineering mantra of this is an iterative process that takes many evolutions from initial design, to final product. Test, test, test.
@@Froggy_STR33MS-TTV not in the picture, it's in the black track tube... And there's also blue that end up in the red tube at a different point. There are still some glitches with the machine. I'm really surprised he didn't mention them at all
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😅
filling from the center out to the sides might reduce the impact of the front plexiglass bending. the jiggling effect that the marbles have when they bounce is going to be weaker at the edges where it's secured, and strongest at the middle where it has the least support, so it should reduce how much the lexan gets pushed out by the marbles, even if the overall forces remain the same. if it doesn't, just get a sheet of perspex that is thicker in the middle. a gentle bell curve shape if viewed from the top/bottom edge on. if you feel like reducing the bounciness of the marbles as they drop, and EDF blowing air into the bottom of the picture frame (via the exit channels) should be sufficient to slow their falls. while it will get weaker near the top, they'll be falling for less time so the need to slow them down will also be less.
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
You'll need 7 motors actually. Imagine a binary tree with 8 leaves. The root needs one, but then both of its children need one more, and so for their children. In total, it's the number of non-leaf nodes in the tree, which makes 7.
@@rohitkharsan to sort eight colors you need 2 to the third power channels. That means, you need three layers of binary toggles. On the first layer you have one toggle which splits to two lanes. On the second layer, you have two toggles controlled by a single motor which split across four lanes. On the third layer you have four toggles connected to one motor which split across eight lanes. , You don’t even need three motors. You just need three solenoids.
@@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!
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.
I'd love to see some neon colored marbles making some psychedelic art, maybe with black light lighting. Colors just seem to blow my mind! Thanks for the hard work making your videos!
This is kinda pointless for people that don't go into the comments, because this comment only shows when the sponsor ends so pointless. Maybe add a timestamp for when the sponsor starts?
Counterpoint: hes already ran this about 3 times at least and a toral of 4 errors (including the red marble in the blue feed line) is amazing, thats a very very small error rate
Martin Molin 2014-current Ivan Miranda 2023-current Jay Vogler 2024-current A moment of silence and fitting emojis for some of our favourite RUclipsrs that lost their marbles. To eternity.
Here are some answers to the most common questions here:
- The sag in the middle of the image is interestingly a result of the bowing of the front acrylic plate (never would’ve predicted that). The channels are slightly too deep, which is a dimension I adjusted on the second print of the channel sections. This allows the marbles to stagger a little bit which pushes outward on the front panel. The largest deflection of the panel is right in the centre, which is why only the centre columns of marbles sag, and why its only noticeable once the small fractions of displacement build up over the whole frame. Very interesting indeed. Simple fix is to make the channels slightly less deep, and use a thicker front plate.
- The refresh rate is 0.0008hz or one image for every 15 minutes
- Much of the marbles being in the wrong hoppers is actually a result of the hoppers being too small. When the marbles pile up and I don’t catch it in time, they then pile up in the sorting tube and get dumped randomly in any of the sorting tubes. The fix is simple, just make bigger hoppers. That being said, the only marbles it sometimes mixes up is the mint and light blue, which I will definitely find a way to fix for v2
- My switch feedback system was slightly off in dimension (were talking like a half mm) so I had to mount all the switches with hotglue instead of reprinting the entire piece. This lead to some errors where more than 1 marble would get dropped, particularly with the black and white marbles (those were the first switches I glued in, mustve been slightly off). For v2, I will likely change from a mechanical switch to an ir sensor to solve this, and then use stepper motors on the hoppers for more precision!
- I used Arduino to code this whole machine
- It could probably play bad apple, but Im going to save it for v2 which will work perfectly and hopefully way faster!
- I am aware that I look like Harrison Wells, but if you’re asking me I look way more like a young Jerry Seinfeld
- The marble drop at 0:20 was supposed to happen on “how hard could it be” but they wanted their freedom early and nothing was stopping them
- No it cannot run doom…yet
You could use sandpaper to sand the bad parts maybe.
Gg making a poopy scoopy.
Make the sorter switcher be rotational instead of angular. Make tryptophobia work for you beautifully like lotus flowers…or opium.
@bornsvg
I’m the first comment on your pinned comment. Please make my idea.
@@bornsvg wrong I was
@@bornsvgwhy did u try to ping urself and no ur not first…
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! 😊
Brief?
It’s a bit confusing in present time as well 😅
@wintergatan omg it’s you
Do NOT underestimate the engineering complexity of marble machines
*Wintergatan Flashbacks*
One must imagine Wintergartan happy
If Martin had Jay on his team, we would already be on his world tour...
Wintergatan needs to get an ordinary job.
@@DaleDix No!
Yes 😂
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!
@@AllenKnutson this is an amazing idea!!!
@@justinbanks2380bad apple on a marble machine
The simplest answer would just be to not use plexiglass. A regular glass pane, possibly tempered if available in that size, would probably be rigid enough. Or if you wanted to stick with the plexiglass, bonding it to the tops of the fins between the channels might do it, provided the weight and impact force of the marbles doesn't cause the fins to separate.
I think one of the hardest things about this build might be that there are too many potentially valid ways to solve each problem, so it's hard to know what to choose.
This needs to be seen!!!
You are now required to do bad apple using this method.
The thing Is 4 FPH
Oh god
if it has a screen, bad apple will be seen
@@techman_real or 0.002 ish fps
This is the PERFECT demonstration of the disconnect the VAST majority of engineers have when implementing their CAD designs to construction. I can’t tell you how many times, on EVERY job mind you, having to go back to the engineer due to their plans not even remotely close to working, let alone passing inspections. Yet every time you go back to them with the problem, they’ll first take offense to it as if “how dare you question my design. Who’s the one that went to school for it?”. Followed with “well, make it work. What do you want me to do about it?”, as if they were never taught that during inspection, the inspector goes off the PRINTS! I truly believe that whatever field an engineer is working in, that they need at least 1yr of on the field training(more depending on field) to gain experience and closing the gap of disconnect between the classroom and job site.
0:20 relatable 🙈 awesome work 💪👊
@@PepperGizmo42 Don't be a dick just because you don't like his approach. Clearly, other people like it, so it's not your thing. Move on
@@PepperGizmo42 This is an ignorant thing to say. Engineezy used electrical components and software to deliberately control every moving part on the machine. Martin is relying solely on mechanical movements.
I'm not sure if you've watched Martin's latest content recently, but he is also "actually making something". Sure, it's a bunch of wood, screws, and rubber bands with a janky setup to test the ideas. It's called prototyping...
came on YT to look for wintergatan wednesdays, but found this instead XD
I remember that video 😭😅
@@PepperGizmo42 think a second. this machine is nice, but lacks precision, you see in the final images hanging the top layers through, not being on the same line, at least one marble being detected wrong. fixing these details eats most of the time, but just ignoring it and one video is produced which is also fine. moving on. comparing that to what MMX was capable the hours tests of liability towards its end, not even mentioning producing content for years. I like the current engineering content and approaches of Martin. it teaches a lot. and it feels that he's on the right track. not a one-month project. might not entertain everyone. and doesn't have to.
Beautiful work.
Here's a rarely-considered fact (from a guy who has sorted countless marbles): consumer-grade marbles are not held to very tight tolerances!
If marbles were put into this machine straight out of the mail, it's safe to say that probably more than a few errors were caused by size discrepancies. Standard marbles are sold as 9/16", but that number is just their _average_ size. On top of this complication, marbles will also vary with respect to roundness. Eccentricity is a whole 'nother thing to test for; a simple rail-sorting machine can easily screen for size, but such screenings assume a marble is perfectly spherical, and thus multiple screenings (of the same set) are necessary to determine their degree of roundness.
Forget that, though. An occasional error makes the final product a charming work of art. It's almost better that way. More uncertain. More human.
Yeah but dead pixels are annoying.
This is incredible. Honestly the most persuasive thing to get a 3D printer. My son has an engineering mind and really loves building things. I’m going to show him what he could do if he wanted to. This is so cool!!!
Jay creates complex machines to make pixel art with balls while wintergaten makes complex machines to play music and Ivan makes complex machines just to show a clock with seconds
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
@@Engineezybro I can too I’ve spent a year working on a project and I’m almost done 😊
That clock spring funnel was a really good idea.
Thank you!! I was probably most proud of that bit
@@Engineezy You should be. That felt like the most original idea, and it worked flawlessly too!
Will those springs eventually wear out?
Noticed you also put them on the sorter arm.
Not gonna lie, Im a shitty person whos been in the fabrication and machining industry far too long, and usually am rolling my eyes making derisive comments at these videos (I WATCH THEM BECAUSE IM INTERESTED!!! IT DOESNT HAVE TO MAKE SENSE TO YOU! YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF MY ACTIONS HOLDS ZERO IMPACT UPON THEM, HOW DARE YOU ASSUME OTHERWISE!!!) for any number of reasons. But even I, the salty grump that I am, was legitimately impressed by using those spring steel strips as a sort of compliant funnel! Like, 100% awesome method of tapping into the innate aspects of a materials construction! Everything else is just sort of brute forcing the problem (we dont have time to go into why that bugs me so much, since I know yall are waiting on bated breath for an explanation, but lets just go with you know when someone does something the exact way you wouldnt and you have the thought "this is why we cant be friends" ? Its sort of like that) but that choice...[chefs kiss]...perfecto.
Now....to leave a comment regarding the choice of control schema....[puts ass hat back on]....In this essay I will....
Now hook up a camera and a bill acceptor and move this to the mall. People can take selfies and then take a pic of their marble Pixley selfie
This is a great idea 🤔
If it took off, someone would just make a filter that does the same thing and sell it for $5. He couldn't even sue because pixel art has been around for something like 40 years.
@@robwilkes3351 we musn't let the trepidation of litigation impede our design and creativity. For doing so will mean we've succumbed to liberal socialism.
What if they steal marbles?
@MisterEdude I'm guessing you mean "what if they steal the idea of the marble machine". You can patent a particular presentation of an idea, but not the idea itself. So if someone built A marble machine there's nothing he can do. If they stole his exact designs then he'd have a case.
i want to eat the marbles
Me too it looks like candy
@@musabtufayltariq656great minds think alike, as I was thinking this too
they look like freaking gum balls
Maybe it would work with gumballs too?
You need Jesus
OUTSTANDING, what a phenomenal project. Well done all round. Engineering & patience at their peak.
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.
What's the MTBF?
If it’s going to be used for portraits, you’d probably want to change the color palette to have more flesh tones, and the requisite number of marbles
@@2adamast 2 hours
It may not be the highest resolution photo, but the fact that it's made out of solid objects instead of pixels and built entirely mechanically is immensely impressive.
There are 5 ESP in it so not entirely mechanical
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
can it run doom?
Yes
You shush
Probably, lol
LMAO
Probably
But very
Very
Very slowly
As a Python coder and electrical designer/ robotics hobbyist that is starting to dabble in CAD and wants to start 3d printing... this video was even more inspirational to keep pursuing my dream. And definitely got a another subscriber who's gonna back watch a lot of videos later.
Already also visualizing changes and or modifications you could do to improve that system alone. So cool.
I don't know _what_ I expected when I started following along with the short-form looks at the components, but this exceeds _all_ my expectations!
So happy to hear that! Thank you
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!
Yes! Talk to Cosi in Columbus Ohio or the Inventors Hall of Fame and museum in Akron Ohio!
Eat your heart out Ivan Miranda/Wintergataan! There's a new mechanical marble marvel madman. This is an incredible build with 10/10 engineering/suffering. I also loved the Foley work with the intro illustrations.
I followed Wintergatan for years but got tired of him, and follow Miranda in his current project. I can honestly say this guy took it to the next level engineering wise.
Martin* eat your heart out. Miranda is actually building and inventing.
Martin has entered the chat already, in a separate comment thread.
Thanks DeeJ! The engineering/suffering was absolutely 10:10 on this one haha! Also thanks for appreciating that animation I spent 5 more hours on it than I was expecting
so cool to see this final result after all the shorts! loved how you showed the trial & error throughout the video
This is crazy impressive! I can’t even imagine how much time and headaches went into producing such an amazing result. The clear parts allowing you to see through to the mechanics is a nice touch too. Fantastic job!
15:19 that slow build, then quick clearing with the sound.... Soooo satisfying
Agreeed! Happy accident there honestly
lol wrong comment
DUDE!!! That was sick!!!! Well done Jay!!!
now we have two marble magicians :D
Two impressive youtubers taking on similar marble sorting problems but with different solutions is only made better by the fact they released videos in close proximity.
@@anubis520funny you said that because so many people commented on Ivan's videos to make the marbles to be placed vertically instead of horizontally and yet he insisted in the harder way
Cant wait to see how you improve and adapt your marble clock even further :)
@@Kasrk1n Three, don't forget about the actual OG Wintergatan.
1:10 RBG made me short sircuit for a second
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one
What a bot 😂
@@SimplVRWdym it was a funny comment
SAME BRO, SAMEE
This is so cool and I admire you so much for making this :0 also, I really appreciate the visual design things you thought about when making it too :) adds an excellent amount of whimsy
Jay, my new all time favorite. I said in the beginning and say it again, you’re brilliant. After all these years you know two things will happen 1. You have to rebuild because of something and 2. You always have to make it better, faster and bigger. You’re better than ever! This was extra better and amazing. Keep doing what you do! 😎
I purchased and assembled your mechanical 7-segment display, and I was delighted with the fantastic result. This project is truly epic and it left a more impression on me!!
I think the rendering would be more satisfying to watch if channels were picked at random. And sometimes have a channel fill only partly before it switches to another channel, and then it come back to finish.
Basically less predictability in how the marbles drop will make it more fun to watch.
That would be a cool way to do it- maybe for v2!
@@Engineezy Could have it do all the marbles of a single color per column, then move to the next column, and then use the next color in the stack. Kind of unclear how it's switching colors, but could potentially be simpler/faster.
@@JZStudiosonline I think moving the top funnel from column to column is slower than switching colors (since each stack of marbles is always ready to go). So I think this already has the fastest method. But that doesn’t invalidate your idea of changing the drawing method
Lost scale at 14:15 for a sec, thought the machine got massive all the sudden
😂
Same 😭
same omgg
14:20 marbles on the wrong lane
killed me
16:11 too
16:24 the red in the blue tube xd
Intruder Alert!
@@themountaindude real
@@themountaindude bfdia reference
Red spy
Is in the base
3:45 "I feel like this would get boring to watch".. Ah, there it is. The curse of the inner engineer fighting the inner artist, lol. I almost feel PTSD from Wintergaten's channel.
Its a constant struggle, this time leading me to have to do something 8 times, then decide I should do it 8 more times 😵
@@Engineezy I work on a lot of smaller projects so I fully appreciate the iterative nature of these projects and sometimes the time sink investigating down a rabbit hole that leads to no where and having to backtrack hours and hours of work on a dead end.
Your design and engineering is obviously great, but I just wanted to say that you are REALLY good at this RUclips thing! The video itself is truly top notch! Your presentation and explanation, the cinematography and editing... exceptional and very engaging! And all the shorts that led up to this were great, too! I actually found your channel from the shorts. Keep it up. I may be late to the party, but I'm here for it now!
Thanks so much! Means a lot as I spend SO much time trying to get the video part right
Hey man! Great job, you are so inspiring! I have been anticipating what this whole project was going to be, I have been watching since the very beginning and am so happy to see this working and it is so satisfying, thank you for going through all the trial and error for this to work, this is amazing and I hope you keep it up, but give yourself a break, relax a bit, I know this was not easy. I can't wait to see what you do next, thank you so much!!!
This is really cool and kudos for making it work! I actually marvel at the 'erase' and re-sort at the end as that is truly sweet.
You are the first person to ever say what training you had. Had I known this was mechanical engineering I would have entered that field of study 9 years ago
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
Months of watching your shorts while on the toilet paid off. Good job!
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as a retired electrical engineer that is totally infatuated with 3D printing and ESP32 and marbles, this video just captivated me (as all your videos do, TBH). Thanks for entertaining me! I love this! Now that you've worked out all the bugs on the design, time to share the STL's and programs!!! Watching that marble sorter was sooo satisfying. LoL
Glad you liked it! The sorter was definitely a fun puzzle to solve.
That is so sick, great job!
I feel like a relatively easy upgrade to this project would be to make the current “frame” into just a hidden queue and add a another frame below that. Make it so it displays image 1 in the bottom from until image 2 is completely finished in the hidden queue, clear the bottom frame and drop in image 2. That way it’s always displaying a full image and can be like a cool little art piece. Plus you have 99% of the mechanics completed already.
Either way, amazing work!
16:12 they says that as there is clearly a red ball going up the blue ball track
Yea so many missplaced marbles
I don't know the timestamp but there are also blue balls in the black ball track and there are miscolored and misplaced marbles in ALL of the pictures. Surprised me that he didn't mention anything about the issues the machine was still having when they are so obvious. It's still really cool and it'd be nice to hear there are still glitches to work out instead of ignoring them 😂
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!
Thank you!! I may post a more detailed video on the second channel! I do it for me as well, thanks for allowing me to do it
You, Ivan Miranda and Wintergatan... everyone been building big marble machines lately!
And some of those will be finished in our lifetime!
So fun haha
@@FuncleChuck 😂😂😂
Love all these fun projects! Also love seeing all the ways you come up with to solve the problems and somehow always still making everything visually satisfying
Absolutely awesome results! Hope your project goes at a museum, glorious by itself.
yooooooo epic ( i watched the shorts!!!)
Same!!!
Same
Much appreciated!
Same
SAME
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!
0:55 based.
"I'm gonna make that jump."
"Dude no it's too far."
"There's no turning back, I'm already mid air."
Your patience is amazing to problem solve and to disassemble your machine so many times!
Dude. Not only are you good looking, you’re an amazing engineer I always wanted to be. All of your projects are stuff that is my cup of tea! Thank you for living my dream!
This is one of the coolest things i have seen in a while!
Thank you!!
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!!
Thank you!! Would be so cool as a wall mounted piece!
15:58 well, you almost got the middle of our country’s flag right 🇨🇦
You wanna sing the national anthem w me, it is Remembrance Day after all
@ Remembrance Day isn’t until the 11th of November 😁
Hey I really liked this but the best part was you actually showing the things that didn't work first time! Showing the faults just helps people understand that not everything works as expected first time and you always have to go back and adjust. This is life so thanks for that and what a great job you did. Well done 😀😀
I would love to see a video talking about your 3d printing setup, what printers you use, what materials you print in and why.
i had to unfocus my eyes almost to the point of crossing them to figure out that 16:05 was Einstein!
I could not tell tbh
i thought it was a brain lol
I can kinda see where it is supposed to be and know the picture ... yet I still can't actually see it.
0:37 I like the "marbles are lifted up" sound. :3
😅 thats the 3am interpretation
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!
Thanks!!! Glad i could deliver. 🤞🤞🤞
I remember when shorts about the first pieces for this machine started popping up in my shorts.
It came out very good and specially beautiful. Congratulations for the project mate!
I absolutely love all the hard work that went into this. And a very satisfied viewing
RBG hurt my soul
Why
It’s supposed to be RGB (red, green, blue), not RBG. (red, blue, green)
GBR
14:27 Feel the pain here lol. Sometimes all you can do is laugh it off and get right back to it. Great video and way to stick with it!
The life of any programmer 😔
I KNEW IT!!! I called it in your community post! Great work man it's a work of art!;)
Good call!! Thank you!
So satisfying to see it all come together after all the little glimpses into the design process
I just found your channel yesterday. This is amazing! If it wasn't for the 420 clock (no judgements here, lol) I would think about showing it to my HS intro to engineering students. You showcase the engineering mantra of this is an iterative process that takes many evolutions from initial design, to final product. Test, test, test.
Blue marble in the black stack at 15:07 :D
Or it could be a design choice
@@Froggy_STR33MS-TTV not in the picture, it's in the black track tube... And there's also blue that end up in the red tube at a different point. There are still some glitches with the machine. I'm really surprised he didn't mention them at all
I would watch that thing all day, easy. Also... umm 16:24 that one red marble in the blue marble column just is ticking me off
There is also one blue in the salmon department in the bottom. Maybe they are just identify as such 😅
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💛..
filling from the center out to the sides might reduce the impact of the front plexiglass bending. the jiggling effect that the marbles have when they bounce is going to be weaker at the edges where it's secured, and strongest at the middle where it has the least support, so it should reduce how much the lexan gets pushed out by the marbles, even if the overall forces remain the same. if it doesn't, just get a sheet of perspex that is thicker in the middle. a gentle bell curve shape if viewed from the top/bottom edge on.
if you feel like reducing the bounciness of the marbles as they drop, and EDF blowing air into the bottom of the picture frame (via the exit channels) should be sufficient to slow their falls. while it will get weaker near the top, they'll be falling for less time so the need to slow them down will also be less.
This is something I could totally see in a science museum, I'd sit and watch for ages to see the pictures it makes!
15:29 there is a red marble in the pink pipe
It happens 🤣
There's 2
@CorruptedNoob42 fr
0:44 the title on the white board 😂😂😂😂 I'm afraid I could write that in sharpie on my whiteboard of projects 😭🤣😂
😂😂 thank you for noticing that
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
@@Engineezy how about a simple comma separated variable text file?
Thanks!
Outstanding! Great job....always love your videos. Being an engineer, I share your frustration and jubilation. Congrats on a great build!
Wow this machine is so cool I loved this video!!!!
it hasn't even been 5 minutes and the video is nearly 17
@@Aeonsteel so I can’t just look at the end product watch a bit then go back to the start
Appreciate it!!
2:36 you could sort eight colors with three motors.
You'll need 7 motors actually. Imagine a binary tree with 8 leaves. The root needs one, but then both of its children need one more, and so for their children. In total, it's the number of non-leaf nodes in the tree, which makes 7.
@@rohitkharsan to sort eight colors you need 2 to the third power channels. That means, you need three layers of binary toggles.
On the first layer you have one toggle which splits to two lanes. On the second layer, you have two toggles controlled by a single motor which split across four lanes. On the third layer you have four toggles connected to one motor which split across eight lanes.
, You don’t even need three motors. You just need three solenoids.
His solution was an octal turntable. That also works, but it has a slower response time.
when i saw it i tought you was the lego guy that built practicaly the same mechanism for sortimg but with legos
First time see any of your videos. Absolutely loved it. Instantly subscribed.
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 thought the balls were bubble gum
Same 😂
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.
@@Engineezy thanks for the reply!
I love how clean the desig is also insane skills
We need a reaction from a music marbles machine guy
Ah yes, winteragten, or whatever the name is, I forgot
12:18 use sand paper please you don't have to take it apart!
Haha would probably have to take it apart anyways 😵
14:46 a single red marble in the white marbles
You're fired
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
Sure! But, it’s reaaaallly low FPS…
I'd love to see some neon colored marbles making some psychedelic art, maybe with black light lighting. Colors just seem to blow my mind! Thanks for the hard work making your videos!
That was way too much work for just a like, here is a tiny sign of appreciation for the effort and time, hopefully others will do the same.
0:20 was that scripted?
The plan was to drop it on the how hard could it be 🤫
@@Engineezyhi😊
@@Engineezycool design
@@Engineezy So... Yes and no 😂
8:21 sponsor ends
This is kinda pointless for people that don't go into the comments, because this comment only shows when the sponsor ends so pointless. Maybe add a timestamp for when the sponsor starts?
@@IlianLivshitz they sometime highlight comments at the bottom
1:10 RPG value...
I knew my ears didn't trick me!
Awesome Jay ... this is how we get to the moon ... one problem at a time until all the problems are solved. Crazy good engineering
This is so cool! If you uploaded an unedited video of an entire image from start to finish honestly I would watch the whole thing!
16:38 I think it’s not done, some black marbles are in the red area
Counterpoint: hes already ran this about 3 times at least and a toral of 4 errors (including the red marble in the blue feed line) is amazing, thats a very very small error rate
@@yoface2537check the side channels whenever they are shown with marbles
There are constantly the wrong colours in
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A moment of silence and fitting emojis for some of our favourite RUclipsrs that lost their marbles. To eternity.
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