Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 2:41 pm
A friend sent me this link and I thought you may enjoy the complex problems involved in building it. http://biggeekdad.com/2016/03/marble-music-machine/
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Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:00 pm
That is absolutely incredible. How in the world do you tune that so all the "marbles" always end up in the various funnels for recovery. Unbelievable!!!
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:26 pm
Some one had fun!
Or not, but it is quite the instrument.
Ed
Or not, but it is quite the instrument.
Ed
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 9:10 pm
jsburger wrote:That is absolutely incredible. How in the world do you tune that so all the "marbles" always end up in the various funnels for recovery. Unbelievable!!!
I have no idea but figured the engineering involved was intense. The pieces had to be sanded to just the correct angle. I would be doing a lot of testing to get something even close. In the http://biggeekdad.com/2012/04/pipe-dream/, I wondered how they got all the balls to bounce just at the right angle to hit each instrument correctly to make the return funnel as well. It must have been a pipe fitter's nightmare.
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:21 pm
Not only is the 'music' computer generated, but so is the 'hardware' and the 'motion'. 
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:31 pm
A true artisan.
Everett
Everett
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:52 pm
The "pipe dream" is a computer generated video/music and has been around for a while, the the marble machine seems to be a real McCoy ....JPG wrote:Not only is the 'music' computer generated, but so is the 'hardware' and the 'motion'.
As a musician and a wannabe wood worker, all I can say is wow to the marble machine!
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:55 pm
I think not!rjent wrote:The "pipe dream" is a computer generated video/music and has been around for a while, the the marble machine seems to be a real McCoy ....JPG wrote:Not only is the 'music' computer generated, but so is the 'hardware' and the 'motion'.
As a musician and a wannabe wood worker, all I can say is wow to the marble machine!
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:59 pm
Prove it ....JPG wrote:I think not!rjent wrote:The "pipe dream" is a computer generated video/music and has been around for a while, the the marble machine seems to be a real McCoy ....JPG wrote:Not only is the 'music' computer generated, but so is the 'hardware' and the 'motion'.
As a musician and a wannabe wood worker, all I can say is wow to the marble machine!
Re: Wooden music machine
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:00 am
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/t ... 0-marbles/
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/20 ... 00-marbles
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/insanely-c ... 0-marbles/
Isn't google amazing. Go ahead and use it.
Ed
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/20 ... 00-marbles
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/insanely-c ... 0-marbles/
Isn't google amazing. Go ahead and use it.
Ed