“First, it’s important to say I didn’t invent the culture of the marble machines,” Martin Molin says. “Are you aware of the marble machine culture? It’s such a scene.” I was not aware of such a scene, ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 2 (UPI) --A Netherlands engineer unveiled his 11,000-piece marble run with a hypnotic YouTube video featuring the marbles going down ramps. Jelle Bakker's "Marble Tsunami" ...

Swedish band Wintergatan may be widely known for its Marble Machine music video (which featured a machine dropping marbles to play drums, a bass, and other instruments), but today I learned that ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X_iW9nrBtHI] Keeping with my theme of DIY projects as gifts, I present to you this little treat, a ...

Last year, artist and musician Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan shared the results of his mechanical labor of love with the online community – the Musical Marble Machine. A captivating ...

Netherlands-based YouTuber and prototype builder, Daniel de Bruin, built a miniature marble machine and it is an infinite loop of delight. Netherlands-based YouTuber and “designer of prototypical ...

[Martin] of [Wintergatan] is on a quest to create the ultimate human-powered, modern marble music machine. His fearless mechanical exploration and engineering work, combined with considerable musical ...

While this is authentic footage of a genuine product, the "perpetual" marble machine does not operate infinitely without an additional energy source. Rather, it uses batteries and a magnet to create ...

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