Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

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Recommends thatswrong0 · 2019-09 · on “Wintergatan's Marble Machine in Minecraft [video]”

Absolutely. This thing is a work of love. Original video that inspired this Minecraft recreation: [this video] And the rest of his WIP videos for the "Marble Machine X": [LINK]

Recommends nosianu · 2021-09 · on “Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)”

Here is something similar ("useless" complex machine made from wood) that somebody made to create music: "Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)" [this video] The video shows the details pretty well too, and the piece being played is of quite good quality. One can see that the machine can just play a pre-configured song, but the operator can add and/or change a lot while running it to create variations of that pre-configured song. The machine is programmable, so that song could be changed.

Cites jedimastert · 2018-09 · on “Martin Molin of Winergatan showing the project breakdown of his Marble Machine”

A few years ago (I think it popped up on HN and all over Reddit) Martin made the Marble Machine[0], which was Rube Goldberg-style machine inspired by mechanical clockwork music devices like clock-towers, music boxes, and street organs. A little less than a year, he announced that he would be making a newer version with much more design intent, better precision, and the ability to tear it down to take it on a world tour. I personally have been following the project through the weekly videos he puts up about the various design challenges he's been facing, and how his team has been growing from himself to around 10 people. The growth, scale, and skill seen from Martin has been amazing. The proj

Cites mattkevan · 2018-09 · on “Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers”

When it said marble-powered computers I was imagining something like the Marble Machine [this video] Looks like a cool educational project though.

Cites silicon2401 · 2020-11 · on “Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards”

> It's like we're stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor. This describes everything about the classical music world. They're still playing the same old pieces by the same old composers, on the same old instruments. There's nothing wrong with doing old things, but it's somewhat baffling. As a home guitar player and producer, I can trivially get pedals and amps that practically let me make any sound I want with my guitar, as well as equipment for alternative techniques like the E-bow. If you jump over to the MIDI/DAW world, there's pretty much no limit to what you can do. Some stuff is already coming out tha

Cites sargstuff · 2022-05 · on “Ask HN: Fun and unexpected applications of Computer Science?”

The New Turning Omnibus : 66 Excersions in Computer Science by A.K. Dewdney. Different applications of CS principles : [LINK] ; [LINK] Using AR glasses with [1] to get a "math equation" to send to a 3d printer. [1] [LINK] Software coding is more flexible than hardware coding, just doesn't look as nice : [this video]

Cites ClearAndPresent · 2022-09 · on “Can Lego play the drums? [video]”

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: [this video] Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: [LINK]

Cites tsukikage · 2024-04 · on “AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License”

[LINK] [this video] [LINK] [LINK] That's the thing about art: when people make general statements like this one, others will go on to create things purely to see what's outside the box.