I think the next big project alongside this one will be a marble collector that’ll be able to separate black and white marbles for use again with the clock …and something tells me the white ones will be steel, and black ones ebony wood, and magnetism will separate the balls and send them back to the top of the clock to be used again … 😊
It is VERY HARD to see the DIFFERENCE between the BLACK 'marbles' and the "WHITE" 'marbles' .... I think it's because the BLACK ones still REFLECT a lot of light - There HAS TO be a way to create a BETTER CONTRAST between them... I have NO IDEA HOW tho... I just wanted you to know that it's pretty hard to tell the difference between them... :)
If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone go crazy from building a marble contraption on UA-cam, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
Absolutely. Can’t wait for the next episode. And you know what’s also brutally fun? Watch this with your eyes closed. I mean, just listen to him. He is king of speaking Italian using English words. Do so love that. 😊
I came in for iteration 1 of second marbles. Went back and watched the whole clock videos. Now I'm watching yet another YTer go slowly insane chasing marble contraptions.
The Marble Clock saga has been a masterclass in practical engineering. This latest revision is a great demonstration of "going back to the drawing board" and I love it. The result is an simpler, more elegant design that works more accurately than previous iterations. Bravo!!
That second display is absolutely huge. I love these renaissance people sort of rediscovering what goes into engineering and the process getting there.
@@ivanmirandawastaken I meant is as someone that takes on a challenges and learn many different disciplines to accomplish their goal. However, the wikipedia definition says it better: a very clever man who is good at many different things You take on engineering, manufacturing and all aspects of design in your creations.
Another commenter nailed it on my feelings…such joy from watching something that must be so frustrating and yet an incredible sense of accomplishment to figure out such a complex puzzle. Thanks Ivan for bringing us along on this ride!
I am a 73-year-old grizzled engineer, pretty tough to impress. Every single one of your videos is totally inspirationa and keeps in the shop MAKING THINGS. Thank you..
I’m not an engineer, scientist, or mathematician, but I find your whole series about your marble clock journey so entertaining! Can’t wait for the next video!
Not only you make things work, you make things beautiful, aesthetic and functional, which is truly a awesome trade. This clock looks so ancient and futuristic at the same time, it’s mesmerizing.
I've been hooked on this series since the very first video-totally by chance! I used to watch restoration or even those type of "building something" videos before bed, and somehow the algorithm must have picked up on that because I absolutely love what you're doing here. Your enthusiasm and craftsmanship, Ivan, are truly inspiring. Keep up the fantastic work! Sending big compliments from Brazil, mate!
Been following for a number of months now... I love your crazy enthusiasm for this insane project. Keep it up, but don't forget to take breaks from the project so you don't burn out!
Someday, somebody is going to be working on a device that actually is serving a real purpose, and they are going to remember something in one of these crazy marble clock videos that helps them solve a problem. I just love how you are sinking hundreds of hours into an analog device that counts to 10.
I have watched every one of these videos since they came out and every one of them is just as interesting. The ways you work around these and deliver it in such a simple format is so easy to watch. Keep it up Ivan, you're doing and have done a great job
I love the first try caveat. "Well, first try not counting all the other tries." :) Your clock is making progress. This is actually really cool to see.
"a clock should work like... all the time" was a very clever line. just enough of a gap for everyone's brain to finish the joke before switching it to a different punchline. 👌👌
Easiest way to display milliseconds would just be to paint one half of each marble black and the other half silver, then glue them on to the output of a high speed motor. At least it seems to me. Though at that point they're no different from mechanical pixels.
It’s fun to think about the “rules” of this kind of challenge. The marbles in this design are still rolling under gravity a bit, but they are getting brute force moved quite a bit more than in the previous design. If you go too far in the brute force direction then you could have a big wheel with ten matrices of marbles glued to it. The wheel rotates 1/10 of a turn every second and shows the matrix with the marbles for the corresponding digit. But then the design isn’t using the fact that they are marbles at all, so that’s definitely against the rules, whatever the rules are!
This guy makes videos with the right frequency so that they come slowly enough to give me time to forget about them, and then it's such a happy surprise when I see it in my YT feed. :)
Ugh, I love this channel so much. I feel so stupid watching because my brain definitely doesn't work this way. I've been watching for months and I am fully invested to see how this will turn out.
I believe this could be simplified a lot by removing the darker coloured marbles. They were needed in the original clock in order to serve as a placeholder, but in this design, they don't actually serve any purpose. If you removed them, you could remove the marble sorter. You could also make a 5 x 3 display grid that was operated by gates driven by servos: one to allow a marble to roll into the display, and another that would allow the marble to leave the display. To adjust seconds, you would then only need to add or remove the individual marbles that differ between the digits. For example - to change an '8' into a '9', you only need to remove two marbles (bottom left corner): all the others can just remain in place. Making digits change this way would hugely cut down the number of marble each second you need to deal with. You'd also get quite a nice morphing effect between digits. Hard to explain without a diagram I'm sorry - but a total of 30 servo operated gates: two for each dot of the digit: one to allow a marble in, the other to allow it out, and only move marbles when necessary.
ok, now you can show the digits from 0 to 9. But you´ll need the numbers all the way up to 59. You´ll need a second machine like this to show every second from 00 to 59?? can´t wait to see this improvement
You're correct. This is the second units. Once I finish the the entire setup for one digit I'll have to do "something similar" for the tenths of seconds, this thing is going to be huge.
@patrickhector Somewhat easier, since there is more time to prepare the marbles for the next digit, but the tens digit transitions need to be just as fast and also correctly synchronised to the units digit transitions.
If you want some delay on the wheel thingie, add a sliding part where the arm connects to the wheel. The wheel will push the arm all the way, but on the return stroke, the wheel will have to move a few inches to before it starts pushing on the arm again, adding a delay.
A one of my favourite mad engineers is back showing us the most wonderful of things that we all want to see, but none of us could bear the thought of making! Keep it up good sir this series is amazing!
Your first video making the marble clock came up on my feed randomly ages ago, since then I have been subscribed. Really enjoying the videos and journey you are on, looking forward to the next video!
Great job on the display rework, that contraption is crazy in a good way! While I was amongst those who suggested not relying on gravity for the marble swap anymore, my expectations were that you'd only rework the very end of the ramp in a smaller way. Like a sliding plate that would have the 15 holes and a little ramp to one side of each hole to push each marble out, then slide back to let the next set through. That would only move roughly half the diameter of a marble. Your version is much more exciting.
I love this. You know what would make it even more bonkers? A Geneva drive. You could extend that matrix fan to be a matrix wheel that stops at various stations. Station 1 loads the marbles, station 2 displays them, station 3 empties them. I hope you try it, and if you do, I'm sorry
Awesome project...here is an idea: if you added a feedback loop from a digital clock (coded into the control software), you could make the clock self-correct for any mechanical imperfections and would ensure that it never runs incorrectly....
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You went down the Wintergatan rabbit hole, but it is a beautiful piece of engineering.
I love your videos and your innovative thinking to solve problems. It’s inspiring! As I read the video title and having seen the challenges with marble color selection, it struck me that a vertical matrix (like the game four in a row) with a dual channel (one black and silver) marble feed for each column would mean that your can perform the marble sorting at the end of the process and feed the right marbles back into the right hopper with plenty of time.
I’m so ready for the next episode. You should make a super cut, Spiffing Brit had a great video about this, if all the episodes when you finish the project!
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I think the next big project alongside this one will be a marble collector that’ll be able to separate black and white marbles for use again with the clock …and something tells me the white ones will be steel, and black ones ebony wood, and magnetism will separate the balls and send them back to the top of the clock to be used again … 😊
Why do you make your videos in English?
i would prefer it in spanish sometime is really hard to really understand what you said, no offense 😊
Hola. ¿Existe algún canal suyo sonde muestre lo mismo en español?
Entiendo perfectamente el inglés. Pero el de usted es súper ultra malo.
Saludos.
It is VERY HARD to see the DIFFERENCE between the BLACK 'marbles' and the "WHITE" 'marbles' .... I think it's because the BLACK ones still REFLECT a lot of light - There HAS TO be a way to create a BETTER CONTRAST between them... I have NO IDEA HOW tho... I just wanted you to know that it's pretty hard to tell the difference between them... :)
I find it strangely enjoyable to watch people people being driven crazy from building marble contraptions.
I find strangely enjoyable being driven by this clock too 😅
If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone go crazy from building a marble contraption on UA-cam, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
crazy genius
@@davisdiercks Three. Mattias Wendel was also into marble madness.
@@Beakerbite Four. Honorable mention to Look Mum No Computer
Did anybody else set out 8 months ago to get sucked into a once-per-month saga about a marble clock? Me neither, but I'm still here for it!😂
8 months already... im losing my marbles
@alexkirwan7146 maybe you should take some *time* off
Absolutely. Can’t wait for the next episode. And you know what’s also brutally fun? Watch this with your eyes closed. I mean, just listen to him. He is king of speaking Italian using English words. Do so love that. 😊
@@alexkirwan7146 the other famus marble mashine has just passed 8 years and is far from done :)
I came in for iteration 1 of second marbles. Went back and watched the whole clock videos. Now I'm watching yet another YTer go slowly insane chasing marble contraptions.
Truly I cannot express how invested I am in this marble clock. Thank you for all the joy these videos bring me
Thank you for following along, I'm having a blast!!
Thank goodness somebody is investing huge amounts of time into unnecessary contraptions, so I don't have to.
At this point this is basically a public service
everything was unnecessary until we needed it
"Clocks should work all the time"
"We don't need disasters"
You gotta love this guy's philosophy! 😂
I was expecting "Clocks should work like... clockwork"
Who doesn't love an over-engineered solution to a problem that nobody have? This project keeps getting crazier.
The Marble Clock saga has been a masterclass in practical engineering.
This latest revision is a great demonstration of "going back to the drawing board" and I love it.
The result is an simpler, more elegant design that works more accurately than previous iterations. Bravo!!
That second display is absolutely huge. I love these renaissance people sort of rediscovering what goes into engineering and the process getting there.
This is the very first time ever that someone called me a renaissance person and I don't know how to take it.
@@ivanmirandawastaken I meant is as someone that takes on a challenges and learn many different disciplines to accomplish their goal.
However, the wikipedia definition says it better:
a very clever man who is good at many different things
You take on engineering, manufacturing and all aspects of design in your creations.
@@57thorns can we also add chemistry?
@@sprite6219 Forgot about that part, the marble colouring?
@@57thorns yes
Year 2050: Ivan still working on marble clock has violent brain storm, destroys entire clock and starts over with clear pneumatic tubes.
i honestly love how this series also shows your own design and engineering journey with this project
Another commenter nailed it on my feelings…such joy from watching something that must be so frustrating and yet an incredible sense of accomplishment to figure out such a complex puzzle. Thanks Ivan for bringing us along on this ride!
This is a beautiful "tick tock" addition for the clock!
I am a 73-year-old grizzled engineer, pretty tough to impress. Every single one of your videos is totally inspirationa and keeps in the shop MAKING THINGS. Thank you..
I’m not an engineer, scientist, or mathematician, but I find your whole series about your marble clock journey so entertaining! Can’t wait for the next video!
Absolutely loving the design process here. Absolute madness.
That wheel/lever mechanism is incredibly satisfying.
Awesome approach! Nice solution with the camshaft and I'm looking forward to the rest of the project!
I love the gears and wheels and levers on this one! It looks like a proper analogue mechanism! Maybe even a little bit like the inside of a clock.
Whilst wintergatan is rediscovering and implementing the entire field of engineering, this channel is satisfying my need for wacky marble contraptions
I was jusr thinking about when the next episode was coming, and here it is!!
I had to design the entire machine before I could start building this section, next episode will take less time hopefully
Best part of these videos is the "yes, it works!", you can clearly see how excited and proud he is after making it work after hours of engineering :D
You Rock! I love watching your process. Keep on keeping on!
I will, thank you!!
Not only you make things work, you make things beautiful, aesthetic and functional, which is truly a awesome trade.
This clock looks so ancient and futuristic at the same time, it’s mesmerizing.
I've been hooked on this series since the very first video-totally by chance! I used to watch restoration or even those type of "building something" videos before bed, and somehow the algorithm must have picked up on that because I absolutely love what you're doing here. Your enthusiasm and craftsmanship, Ivan, are truly inspiring. Keep up the fantastic work! Sending big compliments from Brazil, mate!
This is one of the best engineering story’s I’ve ever seen. I‘m already looking forward to the next episode.
I am seriously impressed by you. I love that you have not given up and that there will be a really cool marble clock at the end of your hard work.
The camshaft solution is brilliant. Love your channel.
This design looks so cool with the radial display and wheel driving the movement.
I have never wanted to see something succeed more than this damn marble clock!!
That's some pretty impressive prototyping.
Just awesome! Your tenacity is contagious!
Well... Looking forward to see how it goes, Ivan! Great design! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I love watching the evolution of this project.
SUCH A COOL DESIGN!!! So excited for the full clock
I am so invested in this series, I can’t wait for when it final works and we can move on to the millisecond display
This should be put in a museum
I hope for this version to be reliable enough to be displayed working continuously, It may be even be able to bring it to events!
I agree - it belongs in a museum. It's too useless for anything else :P
Maybe near the Foucault pendulum in Paris
Get it to Open Sauce next year!
9:27 The hum is weirdly satisfying, it sounds just like the one in an old water mill made from wood!
Oh dude!
That is way more than I was expecting.
Been following for a number of months now... I love your crazy enthusiasm for this insane project. Keep it up, but don't forget to take breaks from the project so you don't burn out!
I didn’t think I’d get so invested but I absolutely love this idea
Someday, somebody is going to be working on a device that actually is serving a real purpose, and they are going to remember something in one of these crazy marble clock videos that helps them solve a problem. I just love how you are sinking hundreds of hours into an analog device that counts to 10.
I have watched every one of these videos since they came out and every one of them is just as interesting. The ways you work around these and deliver it in such a simple format is so easy to watch. Keep it up Ivan, you're doing and have done a great job
I really like the new design! It's very shape-y and pleasing. I can't wait to see how it connects to the rest of the clock
I love the first try caveat. "Well, first try not counting all the other tries." :) Your clock is making progress. This is actually really cool to see.
"a clock should work like... all the time" was a very clever line. just enough of a gap for everyone's brain to finish the joke before switching it to a different punchline. 👌👌
You have the sort of dedication and follow-through that I beat myself up for not having. I sincerely hope to see more from you :)
this is turning into a glorious project!
Amazing. You are a patient and inventive person.
Ok, Interesting. I can't wait to see how you manager to get multiple of them close enough to read as a clock.
Ooh Shiiit...
If I've learnt anything from this series, he will find a way.
Maybe stack them in front of each other? xD
@@TheMagneticDude Yeah. I was thinking about maybe a clever mirror arrangement :D
Definitely bonkers! This is a thing of beauty. Well done!
1:27 In that case, a much simpler solution would be to look directly at it not more than twice a day and at the correctly chosen premeditated time
I like this because it's reminiscent of a proper pendulum clock with the tick-tock motion it does for the seconds.
This whole ordeal was actually interesting and fun to watch. And he edits and narrates things in an entertaining way! 10/10
We dont care if its usesless, we still watch it 😂
It will tell the time, it will be useful in the most useless way.
Milliseconds when?
First tenths of a second right? One should dive into madness step by step we're not savages 😂
Ahhhh, good to know there's a proper method on how to descend into madness! 😂
All in due time, right?
@@ivanmirandawastaken Once you're in you no longer recognize the landscape.
Easiest way to display milliseconds would just be to paint one half of each marble black and the other half silver, then glue them on to the output of a high speed motor. At least it seems to me.
Though at that point they're no different from mechanical pixels.
"the best clocks work like uhh... all of the time"
what a great quote
You are a special kind of crazy... the good kind, I love it!
It’s fun to think about the “rules” of this kind of challenge. The marbles in this design are still rolling under gravity a bit, but they are getting brute force moved quite a bit more than in the previous design.
If you go too far in the brute force direction then you could have a big wheel with ten matrices of marbles glued to it. The wheel rotates 1/10 of a turn every second and shows the matrix with the marbles for the corresponding digit.
But then the design isn’t using the fact that they are marbles at all, so that’s definitely against the rules, whatever the rules are!
Amazing progress!! I can't wait to see the next step!
This guy makes videos with the right frequency so that they come slowly enough to give me time to forget about them, and then it's such a happy surprise when I see it in my YT feed. :)
Good to see you haven't completely lost your marbles.
Ugh, I love this channel so much. I feel so stupid watching because my brain definitely doesn't work this way. I've been watching for months and I am fully invested to see how this will turn out.
I believe this could be simplified a lot by removing the darker coloured marbles. They were needed in the original clock in order to serve as a placeholder, but in this design, they don't actually serve any purpose. If you removed them, you could remove the marble sorter.
You could also make a 5 x 3 display grid that was operated by gates driven by servos: one to allow a marble to roll into the display, and another that would allow the marble to leave the display. To adjust seconds, you would then only need to add or remove the individual marbles that differ between the digits. For example - to change an '8' into a '9', you only need to remove two marbles (bottom left corner): all the others can just remain in place. Making digits change this way would hugely cut down the number of marble each second you need to deal with. You'd also get quite a nice morphing effect between digits. Hard to explain without a diagram I'm sorry - but a total of 30 servo operated gates: two for each dot of the digit: one to allow a marble in, the other to allow it out, and only move marbles when necessary.
This series is almost as slow as Project Binky.
And about as brilliant.
This is elegantly simple in its complexity. 🙂
OH! The magnificent marble madness on display!
Let me count the ways.. _one one-thousand, two one-thousand_ .. 😁👌🏼
I just love following this madness
What will you do for the second digit?
Absolutely superb madness. Love this series.
Love the over-engineering, seems just right to me!
ok, now you can show the digits from 0 to 9. But you´ll need the numbers all the way up to 59. You´ll need a second machine like this to show every second from 00 to 59?? can´t wait to see this improvement
You're correct. This is the second units. Once I finish the the entire setup for one digit I'll have to do "something similar" for the tenths of seconds, this thing is going to be huge.
Tens of seconds will be a lot easier to manage to be fair
@patrickhector Somewhat easier, since there is more time to prepare the marbles for the next digit, but the tens digit transitions need to be just as fast and also correctly synchronised to the units digit transitions.
@@GodmanchesterGoblin tbh just repeating the design with a 10:1 gear ratio and a 10x steeper angle on the main gear would do it
@patrickhector True, but there might be an issue with the cam angle. I'm no expert though. I'd probably look at using Geneva drives for this.
If you want some delay on the wheel thingie, add a sliding part where the arm connects to the wheel. The wheel will push the arm all the way, but on the return stroke, the wheel will have to move a few inches to before it starts pushing on the arm again, adding a delay.
A one of my favourite mad engineers is back showing us the most wonderful of things that we all want to see, but none of us could bear the thought of making!
Keep it up good sir this series is amazing!
Extremely elegant solution
I am so glad that you changed designs.
Your first video making the marble clock came up on my feed randomly ages ago, since then I have been subscribed. Really enjoying the videos and journey you are on, looking forward to the next video!
This is an amazing engineering challenge! I am thrilled that you are doing so well with it!
I still can't imagine how you are gonna put 2 second-digits right next to each other with this evergrowing contraption
Absolutely brilliant Ivan. Love watching this
You must be crazy! I mean this in a good way. This project is simply outstanding. Congratulation and go on!
This is awesome! True art.
I love that project!!
Basically not a clock, but a clock display though 😃
Can't wait for the whole project to be completed! Really enjoying the ride though. 😊
"Look at me, doing small scale prototypes and everything, I don't recognize myself..." - oh man so much pain in those words.
Great job on the display rework, that contraption is crazy in a good way! While I was amongst those who suggested not relying on gravity for the marble swap anymore, my expectations were that you'd only rework the very end of the ramp in a smaller way. Like a sliding plate that would have the 15 holes and a little ramp to one side of each hole to push each marble out, then slide back to let the next set through. That would only move roughly half the diameter of a marble.
Your version is much more exciting.
This is a real example of how adding one more level of precision is often as hard as everything that came before it.
I'm still impressed that you're still pushing for 1-second updates rather than 2, THEN optimizing for speed.
I love this. You know what would make it even more bonkers? A Geneva drive. You could extend that matrix fan to be a matrix wheel that stops at various stations. Station 1 loads the marbles, station 2 displays them, station 3 empties them. I hope you try it, and if you do, I'm sorry
Awesome project...here is an idea: if you added a feedback loop from a digital clock (coded into the control software), you could make the clock self-correct for any mechanical imperfections and would ensure that it never runs incorrectly....
You went down the Wintergatan rabbit hole, but it is a beautiful piece of engineering.
I love this series so far! I get so excited when I see there is a new video 😁😁
I’m sure you have been told this before,but you are a genius. I am an electrical engineer and your mechanical designs just blow my mind.
I love your videos and your innovative thinking to solve problems. It’s inspiring! As I read the video title and having seen the challenges with marble color selection, it struck me that a vertical matrix (like the game four in a row) with a dual channel (one black and silver) marble feed for each column would mean that your can perform the marble sorting at the end of the process and feed the right marbles back into the right hopper with plenty of time.
Que pasada de maquinaria te has sacado de la chistera Iván. Enhorabuena!
Finally, a clock with gears! (I'm loving this series, can't wait to see how the final product comes out!)
I am sure that you are totally aware but the level of over-engineering here is to be applauded. I wish I have the time and skill to do such work.
Much much better. Good work simplifying it
Ivan, I find your subtle humor hilarious!
It's so cool the design that works the best tick tocks.
I’m so ready for the next episode. You should make a super cut, Spiffing Brit had a great video about this, if all the episodes when you finish the project!