both have lost their marbles by now!

Couldn't agree more😂

​@@Sejikoi bet they are on the floor! 😂

which 2?

Wintergatan ;-)@@matthijsvandeweerd1415

He needs to ham up a pity party for decades so he can get that massive ego fed like city-scale garbage incinerator.

Oh hi Wintergatan! What are you doing here? Did you heard rolling balls here?😄

Ha, my first thought after watching these videos was that I bet Wintergatan was also watching them

Yes, and add some gunpowder to the mechanism 🫠

its going to be the same difficulty as recreating fl studio using your musical marble machinery prowess

lmao

it’s worth it

He literally only needs to look at his wrist..

He already has a clock…

@@user-fn2gd3yq6c no......

I think the sentence before is more impressive. going "full nile red" is such a compliment imho!

Knowing that you don't know is all you need to know.

So was: “This is not a process. It’s a lifestyle choice.”

Hearing protection recommended

​@@scaredyfish*required

I think this would be great in a museum if it can stay running for a long time without too many issues

Imagine if it toured with Wintergatan and just counted the time of the performance

​@@scaredyfish These sorts of displays are almost always placed behind glass or perspex screens to reduce the sound significantly - and also stop curious children from trying to throw M&Ms into it.

next you'll be suggesting adding music instruments to play a song on the hour

⁠@@anotherdrummer2But what if the musical instruments were also played by marbles? Perhaps he could have it play by some kind of encoding wheel?

I don't know for sure, but that sounds familiar 😂

Awesome work))))

WHATT?? I don't hear you anymore.

You must add the change from 5 to 0 for seconds and minutes. And if you use a 24hours clock it needs the change from 23 to 00

@@NoriTheBlackCat That's a very good point! It turns out that each of these transitions only needs three marbles to change: 2 → 0: 3 marbles 3 → 0: 3 marbles 5 → 0: 3 marbles

@@NoriTheBlackCatOnly the seconds digit has to change once per second. So for the 10 seconds digits you only change 1.5 marbles per second, if you do all of them.

I was about to add a comment in the same vein. Only need to 'update' the marbles that need to change color. Then you can simply have alternating 'white'/'black' marbles in the run behind each pixel. No selection mechanism necessary, marble sorting on the return path gets way easier, etc. It does mean you need 'per pixel' gates, though you could still use a variation of the mechanical matrix you built already - just drop the selector, since there's only a single run behind each pixel. I was wondering if you could hold the ball bearings magnetically. I'm thinking one coil beneath each run, staggering them between runs so the magnetic fields don't interact. Might need to play around with the field strength, as holding a ball bearing that's already stationary doesn't take nearly as strong a field as stopping the next marble (and all its friends behind it) once it started rolling. It this be a case where separating the bearing release mechanism (magnetic) from a two-stage 'airlock'-style gate mechanism which ensures only a single ball bearing would roll forward each time, and only it the position in front was vacant (because it had been released by the electromagnet). It would be easier to draw than to explain in words :) Though on second thoughts, there may be a simiper mechanical way of just letting one marble roll forward if there isn't a marble in front (i.e. stopping the run of marbles behind it from increasing the momentum that needs to be stopped).

I tested the permanent marbles and I've found that yes, the right most column's top, middle and bottom marbles can stay white, but only if the number one goes to the right most column. Otherwise, there are only 3 permanent marbles.

That is truly the most amazing quote of all time

I knew this comment was coming but nevertheless I nearly choked laughing. 😂

He's made a lifestyle choice, and since he wears protection it's really none of our business what he does with his balls!

I literally thought the same!😆

Use a heating oven and put 50 Marbels inside at ones to improve the Productionspeed.

To be honest, I'm getting some too.

hey at least this guy finish projects X3.

If I had a nickel for every time a youtuber spent an obscene amount of time and effort on a marble contraption, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I was thinking rather than a blow torch a kiln to heat up a bunch of marbles at once

I can’t wait until someone brings up “I need a marble stopwatch to the millisecond

Maybe he can use his hour and minute one and some how incorporate this one next to the minutes so he only needs two numbers

Only one is changing once per second

9 to 10? 19 to 20? etc.@@voncornhole

What are you on about? Obviously when someone asks the time they want to know the single seconds digit and nothing else

Yeah that's lame

​@@Aweoe performing extraneous operations is gigalame

​@@OwenSkarpnessthis entire project is an extraneous operation, thats the whole point

then you whould have channels in front of the clock defeating the point of the project namely a cool cloock

The programmer's solution to all problems. If you don't have enough time to do something, just 'cache' it.

I feel like we're watching a slow descent into insanity!

The trick is to learn to hear it as white noise so that when it's going nothing will wake you up since nothing on earth is louder.

cant you just coat with electrolyte?

Also would mean he doesn't have to have a mechanism for sorting the marbles.

@@curiocheerio good point 😎

But then how would they be switched?

@@nnnnnnnnnn5654 Sorry I don't understand the question. We're switching the stopper at the end of the rail. Like have it go up and down. The gate system behind can simplify down to handle one type of ball and just release all of them each second. Some balls roll off, leaving the ones that make up the digit.

@@NickCombs I also thought of this idea but it kinda feels like cheating. Using blanks as black pixels does not feel in the spirit of the rest of the clock(the hour and minute part). Nevertheless, it is a good idea.

Mark Robber is so annoying.

@@lynnwilliam wtf, He made him self popular, by his work and brain.

@@archys7 yeah Mark Robber is a genius and very talented. but he just annoys me. nothing against the guy.

@@lynnwilliam why?

@@lynnwilliam it is ok, thats personal choice.

He'd probably have to rig up a demagnetiser circuit then otherwise all the balls will end up just sticking to each other.

@@Galerak1 Good point. And a magnet strong enough to stop a rolling ball would probably interfere with other balls nearby.

Hi, not a mechanical engineer here but trying to understand solenoids. would 5/3 solenoids work as well? they have 3 output positions, so left, right, and neutral, would that be usable for this application?