Perpet marble machine

Lets Make Robots user David HASLE made this wonderful marble sculpture using a PICAXE microcontroller, servo, battery, and some wire. Beautiful!

Tom on November 10th, 2010 at 5:39 pm said:

I could see putting some chimes around the perimeter for truly random compositions. And then stacking the marble tracks for polyphony!
Inspiring simplicity.

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Dave on November 10th, 2010 at 6:54 pm said:

the real-world mechanical system (ball on track) learns from the computer, rather than the reverse!

Apparently, it finds the best fit to the PIC’s rate, and that’s the lowest energy situation!

Dave

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unigamer on November 11th, 2010 at 1:47 pm said:

I’m flattered thay bibi49 used my idea (he linked me to his youtube video a few days). I did submit the original to Make when I made it last summer but I don’t think it ever made it to the blog, better late than never!

http://jonathanjamieson.com/projects/electronics/perpetual-ball-roller/

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Marble Polish on February 15th, 2011 at 6:33 am said:

Great demonstration!

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Marble Polishing on March 17th, 2011 at 9:47 am said:

This is my first time I have visited your site. I found a lot of interesting stuff in your blog.

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Marilyn Toscano on October 31st, 2011 at 3:25 am said:

Nice for being visiting, a while were a few. Well just use that one, much appreciated. I need something similar to this for a project, and mine is on the same subject as yours. Thanks, happy trails.

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jimmydemello on August 20th, 2012 at 8:00 pm said:

Now its time to build one with a bowling ball.

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