Rolling Ball Marble Machine Clock
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2011
- Rolling ball marble machine clock that keeps perfect time. A motor lifts a marble once per minute and the time is kept using 3 platforms. The time is read from bottom to top each platform representing hours, 10 minutes and minutes respectively. Music: "Killing Time" by Kevin MacLeod
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I don't care if the machine is ten seconds out every ten seconds. It's wonderful. The magnet on a wheel is brilliant. Thanks so much.
This is awesome. The digital clock was jsut to show hos accurate the marbles were. Pretty impressive.
This is absolutely incredible. I can't imagine how much work you put into this.
Since *forever* I wanted the ball-clock that was in the toy and scientific-toy catalogs. Thanks for sharing your redesign of this concept. I especially like the magnet. Coolness is never a bad design element. Your method of having enough "track" to prevent a "train wreck" at 12:59 to 1:00 is ingenious and fun to watch. I like the lever design that hinges on the short dimension of the wood rectangle. Thanks for inspriation to get busy and make one of my own.
To all asking for plans: this video is so well made that if you watch it a few times you'll realize he's showing you how every section works in between shots of "the big picture". Use pause button, you will see: video == plans!
Sootikins junk ..
Sootikins
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If you have a dinner party, all the men would be standing around it wondering how it works.
This is actual pure brilliance! I would really like one of these! I just bought a new watch and I thought that was cool, but this is just... AWESOME!
This is just simply amazing!! :-D
EPICLY AWSOME!
WANT!
Honestly though, this is so good!
Really incredible!
Incredible!
Fantastic ...!!! You are great !!!
That is brilliant!
That is AWESUM!!!
You, sire, are a genius.
Genial, so eine Mechanische Zählmaschine!!!
Believe it or not...I had one as a kid. It was not as huge as this one...but I had one. I loved it.
Very cool idea . I really like the hidden magnet idea . The rest has been done " but not as nice " .
OMG, I’ve stumbled across a highly intelligent pachinko machine. Congrats, this is awesome!!!
That's awesome man! :D
Good laugh when I saw the flying ball :D
I need this in my life!
this is mad cool.
Nice one..combines two of my favourites..clocks and rbs's !
Rube Goldbergs are unpractical
but they sure look nice
Felicitaciones por el trabajo! realmente muy ingenioso y muy bueno!
very nice done!
if I had this, I would watch it all day and get nothing done. XD
How Cool !!!! Congraats !!!!
Been waiting for your next Marble Machine for a while now, was excited to see this video just now when I was looking up your second machine! I'm currently on a design team building one of these machines for a school project. We're incorporating an Archimedes screw as well as a magnetic lift, but we have to use mechanical power to drive the motion (we're using a hand crank gear system). Keep up the good work with these amazing machines!
Why do these things entertain me so much?
That is great!!!!
Very cool! I bought a clock like this from Spencer Gifts back in the 80s It was plastic with a clear dome. However, it wasn't very reliable. Marble would fall off the rails. I've often thought of making a huge one with bowling balls! I doubt I will though. If I get the chance, I'll prob'ly use wooden crochet or skee balls. It'd still be pretty big, but not nearly as much noise as the bowling balls! (^.^)
Well it took me 4 months and countless hours of trial and error to build one of these clocks using the brilliant basic design of the OP, Muggsman. I added lots of improvments and upgrades both mechanical and cosmetic. I used all I/16" brass rod to build the track ~17ft long on vertical brass ladder supports,3 each. The base 16'x14" and vertical wood is solid maple with a small brass fence around the perimiter. Marbles are 1/2" chrome steel. magnet arms ride on small roller bearings.
Excellent
Look at your clock before you go to bed and say to yourself "wake up at (insert time here)". Say that to yourself about three times while looking at the clock and you'll wake up a minute before you wanted to wake up. Try it out. Been working for me for years.
muito bacana, parabéns!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a genius !!
Incredible
Świetny zegarek brawo
That's a great way to tell time
THIS IS BAD ASS
I saw a clock like that in my late Grandpa's clock shop back in the early eighties.
Exelente!!!
That's so cool
Very cool. I'd want one if it wasn't for the noise of the marbles clicking together. I find that sound very annoying.
Yes, but you forgot mention to set the alarm a minute before the waking time. Its working to me for years... :-)
I love it
Simplesmente magnifico
J'EN VEUX UNE !!! I WANT ONE !!!
Very good
just... wow!
Amazing clock muggsman, congratulations! Would you have any similar items that could be made available to our museum for display, perhaps on a short-term loan basis? We specialise in mechanical, moving exhibits and something like this would be a great fit for our museum. I would love to hear from you. Best wishes, Iain Simmons. The MAD Museum (UK).
+The MAD Museum unfortunately I recently sold my last piece. I recently became a dad so I have a little less free time than I use to, but I hope to get back into making more at some point.
@DJtheForbidden "Killing Time" by Kevin MacLeod. Figured it was a pretty fitting song title for the video.
First, I'm impressed with the mechanics and really respect the work done there. That said, the ONLY piece of this machine keeping any time is the wheel in the back from what can be seen here. Speed up its motor or slow it down and the whole system speeds (to an extent) up or slows down.
Thanks! It is a 1 RPM AC motor which runs on the 60HZ of the power grid, so as long as the load on the motor is kept low it actually keeps very good time. I ran it for a week and it was off maybe a second or two.
Ryan McGirr Thank you for the explanation. Takes nothing from it of course since keeping time is only useful if it can be reported and that's what your machine does so well :)
Ryan McGirr from a microwave?
I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking of a nice way to say it.
I could make a 10 sec marble roll and have a magnet on a second hand and ball for 50 sec . and 60 sec boom
Genius! It'd be even more fun without the digital clock!
For how many hours you've been working on this?Oh, come on! Have a watch and you can not say? It's a great job.
Perfeito!
thats cool
Bellissimo geniale
Take my money now!!
I want a clock like that now. But cool vedieo
cool
awesome clock! what type of motor did you use?
Wow!
I am surprised you don't know by yourself, but here in Europe, hours are written from 0 to 23, while in the USA and other English-speaking countries, they are written as 1 to 12 and marked AM or PM. That's why is the leftmost hour ball glued in permanently. You never read zero hours in this system.
Great
hello, good job. I would love to make my own clock balls, you would have a guide or drawings to get started with the project ... thanks, greetings from chile
ingenius
dude, seriously, you need to make blue prints. I have to build my self one.
hi, thank you for this informative video. what i was always wondering is why there is no 0 on the hour level on the ball clocks i know.i mean how is for example 0:15 displayed? it would be very kind if you could explain this to me.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! Lol, but seriously, I'll buy that.
sweet
exelente
yes, prevents going from 12 to 0 O'clock
What are your blue metal wire covers made out of?
GENIAL
the songs name is "Killing Time"
i think the Digital clock was just put there for reference
what kind of engine is the video?, AND WHAT FORCE IS USED IN THAT MOTOR?
MAGIC! hahaha
@muggsman0 Beautiful!! Where did you find those blue tubes? :O
Music is Killing Time by Kevin MacLeod.
OH IT'S A CLOCK. I JUST GOT THAT XD
By marbles ticking the clock
AWESOME
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maybe i am not seeing this, but as the bunch of marbles fall ,there is no others coming back up to keep the seconds in correct pace. aka: loosing seconds
no need for that because the marble spins only for 30 seconds (from ~30 to ~60) so there is no loosing seconds..
Buy a Time Machine. It is a commercially available clock that works like this, except without using magnets.
can you share the project ?
Is there anywhere that I can get plans for this clock?
that is just cool do you sell the blue prints
I was wondering why it seemed like the marbles were floating to the top. Towards the end of the video I seen why.
So I assume the 1st hour marble is glued into place?
WOAH
If only someone could replicate a level from Marble Drop ( Maxis Marble Drop ) iteslf....that like my life long dream.....now where did I put that darn CD anyways....
My grandmother taught me this one.
I kinda like dis! You know? PWG
thank u gravity
By god, its a clock!
Do you have a marble run clock? Manual operated ball lifter
GOOD