Built by Jelle’s Marble Runs, Marblopolis is a marble run amusement park featuring 30 different attractions, all connected via almost 1/4 mile of track. The park can accommodate up to 400 fun-loving marbles at a time, and, I think I speak for everyone here when I ask, what happens if
Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?
The brainchild of maker of things Ivan Miranda, this is a giant 3D printed marble clock that tells time using black and white marbles as a dot matrix display. The clock features a marble elevator, at the top of which it uses an array of infrared sensors to determine black
Available as a 3D printable file from JBV Creative, this sine wave machine features marbles that roll in a sine wave as the machine is cranked. Hate cranking? Get creative and add a motor. Or a car engine! JBV also sells the file for a wave machine that’s only 8
Marble machines: I’ve been making them since my age was in the low single digits. Granted those were all made out of children’s wooden blocks and the marble usually got stuck somewhere I couldn’t see, but I consider myself an expert on the subject nonetheless. This is a very impressive