BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK THAT SHOWS SECONDS - Pt1.
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2024
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It seems that building a marble clock that updates every minute isn't a hard enough challenge so I fell to the trap you all set for me in the comments and I'm now building a marble clock that can update every second!! Yes, bonkers, I know, but I hope this becomes an even more fun build than the last and you all follow along with me. Keep the comments coming as they are music to my ears and will help me improve this monstrous machine.
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I feel there is a strong correlation between marble projects and madness. Based on a sample size of 2 youtubers I love...
both have lost their marbles by now!
Couldn't agree more😂
@@Sejikoi bet they are on the floor! 😂
which 2?
Wintergatan ;-)@@matthijsvandeweerd1415
Now do ms🎉❤
He needs to ham up a pity party for decades so he can get that massive ego fed like city-scale garbage incinerator.
Oh hi Wintergatan! What are you doing here? Did you heard rolling balls here?😄
Ha, my first thought after watching these videos was that I bet Wintergatan was also watching them
Yes, and add some gunpowder to the mechanism 🫠
its going to be the same difficulty as recreating fl studio using your musical marble machinery prowess
Grande.
"I lack the knowledge to stay alive" is a great line...
I think the sentence before is more impressive.
going "full nile red" is such a compliment imho!
Knowing that you don't know is all you need to know.
So was: “This is not a process. It’s a lifestyle choice.”
Someone please buy this poor guy a clock.
lmao
it’s worth it
He literally only needs to look at his wrist..
He already has a clock…
@@user-fn2gd3yq6c no......
Man, when this clock is finished, it needs to be on display somewhere for public viewing; it is fantastic.
Hearing protection recommended
@@scaredyfish*required
I think this would be great in a museum if it can stay running for a long time without too many issues
Imagine if it toured with Wintergatan and just counted the time of the performance
@@scaredyfish
These sorts of displays are almost always placed behind glass or perspex screens to reduce the sound significantly - and also stop curious children from trying to throw M&Ms into it.
lol that coloring process... The level of sanity this man is willing to sacrifice at his viewers' behest!
I was thinking rather than a blow torch a kiln to heat up a bunch of marbles at once
There are some smart corners that could be cut for this project.
Firstly, there are 5 marbles that will always stay black or white (chrome) through all digits. The two black marbles in an 8 will always stay black, and three marbles in the right most column; the top, middle, and bottom, will always stay white.
Secondly, not all marbles change from one digit to another, but many marbles stay either white or black. The numbers of changing marbles for each transition are:
0 → 1: 7 marbles
1 → 2: 8 marbels
2 → 3: 2 marbels
3 → 4: 4 marbels
4 → 5: 4 marbels
5 → 6: 1 marbels
6 → 7: 7 marbels
7 → 8: 6 marbels
8 → 9: 1 marbels
9 → 0: 2 marbels
This has an average of 4.2 marbles per transition, instead of 15 marbles for a full update.
You must add the change from 5 to 0 for seconds and minutes. And if you use a 24hours clock it needs the change from 23 to 00
@@NoriTheBlackCat That's a very good point! It turns out that each of these transitions only needs three marbles to change:
2 → 0: 3 marbles
3 → 0: 3 marbles
5 → 0: 3 marbles
@@NoriTheBlackCatOnly the seconds digit has to change once per second. So for the 10 seconds digits you only change 1.5 marbles per second, if you do all of them.
I was about to add a comment in the same vein. Only need to 'update' the marbles that need to change color. Then you can simply have alternating 'white'/'black' marbles in the run behind each pixel. No selection mechanism necessary, marble sorting on the return path gets way easier, etc.
It does mean you need 'per pixel' gates, though you could still use a variation of the mechanical matrix you built already - just drop the selector, since there's only a single run behind each pixel.
I was wondering if you could hold the ball bearings magnetically. I'm thinking one coil beneath each run, staggering them between runs so the magnetic fields don't interact. Might need to play around with the field strength, as holding a ball bearing that's already stationary doesn't take nearly as strong a field as stopping the next marble (and all its friends behind it) once it started rolling.
It this be a case where separating the bearing release mechanism (magnetic) from a two-stage 'airlock'-style gate mechanism which ensures only a single ball bearing would roll forward each time, and only it the position in front was vacant (because it had been released by the electromagnet). It would be easier to draw than to explain in words :) Though on second thoughts, there may be a simiper mechanical way of just letting one marble roll forward if there isn't a marble in front (i.e. stopping the run of marbles behind it from increasing the momentum that needs to be stopped).
I tested the permanent marbles and I've found that yes, the right most column's top, middle and bottom marbles can stay white, but only if the number one goes to the right most column. Otherwise, there are only 3 permanent marbles.
8:07 "That's not a process, that's a lifestyle choice."
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Bravo.
That is truly the most amazing quote of all time
I knew this comment was coming but nevertheless I nearly choked laughing. 😂
He's made a lifestyle choice, and since he wears protection it's really none of our business what he does with his balls!
how can we make the marble clock even louder? ah yes, electromagnetic solenoids and metal balls lol
next you'll be suggesting adding music instruments to play a song on the hour
@@anotherdrummer2But what if the musical instruments were also played by marbles? Perhaps he could have it play by some kind of encoding wheel?
I don't know for sure, but that sounds familiar 😂
Awesome work))))
WHATT?? I don't hear you anymore.
I'm getting some Wintergatan PTSD. 🤣
I literally thought the same!😆
Use a heating oven and put 50 Marbels inside at ones to improve the Productionspeed.
To be honest, I'm getting some too.
hey at least this guy finish projects X3.
If I had a nickel for every time a youtuber spent an obscene amount of time and effort on a marble contraption, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I can't wait until he realizes he needs way more than one number.
I can’t wait until someone brings up “I need a marble stopwatch to the millisecond
Maybe he can use his hour and minute one and some how incorporate this one next to the minutes so he only needs two numbers
Only one is changing once per second
9 to 10? 19 to 20? etc.@@voncornhole
What are you on about? Obviously when someone asks the time they want to know the single seconds digit and nothing else
"And that's why I shouldn't be trying to do thi- (cut) And that's why we need to find another way..."
Your dedication to making this project work is ridiculous in all the right ways. I love it
One advantage of the design you discussed around 2:14 is that you could build it without making any sorting mechanism. Just keep the marbles in the same channel and loop them back up to the top. It would effectively work like a flip clock.
Yeah that's lame
@@Aweoe performing extraneous operations is gigalame
@@OwenSkarpnessthis entire project is an extraneous operation, thats the whole point
then you whould have channels in front of the clock defeating the point of the project namely a cool cloock
The programmer's solution to all problems. If you don't have enough time to do something, just 'cache' it.
Whenever I get fed up and bogged down in a project, I think of Ivan and his inspiring perseverance.
This is the level of procrastination that men achieve when they're supposed to be doing the dishes or taking out the trash.
I love the way you think
"That's impossible to do"
"That's impossible to do THIS way"
Imagine having this as an alarm clock 😂 you would never even fall asleep
The trick is to learn to hear it as white noise so that when it's going nothing will wake you up since nothing on earth is louder.
It gets crazier and crazier with every episode. Give me more!
I feel like we're watching a slow descent into insanity!
So, I've started painting minis again after many years, and I was feeling discouraged at how long the process can take. Then I found out how long it took Ivan to make black marbles. I'm no longer discouraged and am going to go back to painting, now. Thanks, Ivan, for your .. genius.. madness.. perseverance is probably the right word, honestly. I wish you luck with this, as I know soooo very little about engineering. I'll keep watching, though!
cant you just coat with electrolyte?
Just when I think my own projects are getting a bit difficult, I come here to be reminded that there are projects out there that are orders of magnitude higher than my own, in terms of insanity-making capacity.
Genuinely floored by this project, and your stubborn determination to see it through.
If you can control the lip at the end of the final ramp, you could have only marbles in the positions of the digits. Hopefully that idea helps prevent you from having to blacken any more of them!
Also would mean he doesn't have to have a mechanism for sorting the marbles.
@@curiocheerio good point 😎
But then how would they be switched?
@@nnnnnnnnnn5654 Sorry I don't understand the question. We're switching the stopper at the end of the rail. Like have it go up and down.
The gate system behind can simplify down to handle one type of ball and just release all of them each second. Some balls roll off, leaving the ones that make up the digit.
@@NickCombs I also thought of this idea but it kinda feels like cheating. Using blanks as black pixels does not feel in the spirit of the rest of the clock(the hour and minute part). Nevertheless, it is a good idea.
You're a maniac, mate. Love it. Idea: since you are now using steel balls, could you use the electromagnets directly? In other words, dispense with the actuator rod and spring on the solenoids and just use the magnet directly as a stop/release mechanism for the balls. Magnet on - ball stops and is held in place; magnet off - ball is released. Cheers from Geoff in France.
He'd probably have to rig up a demagnetiser circuit then otherwise all the balls will end up just sticking to each other.
@@Galerak1 Good point. And a magnet strong enough to stop a rolling ball would probably interfere with other balls nearby.
And when I thought the marble clock project is done, this video pops up randomly in my feed. You earned my subscribe 😁
16:19 wow this is so satisfying! it feels like a physics simulation, but this is even better because it's done in real life. It's truly beautiful!
Mark Robber eat your heart out too. This guy actually builds it. Not a fancy team sponsored by us.
Mark Robber is so annoying.
@@lynnwilliam wtf, He made him self popular, by his work and brain.
@@archys7 yeah Mark Robber is a genius and very talented. but he just annoys me. nothing against the guy.
@@lynnwilliam why?
@@lynnwilliam it is ok, thats personal choice.
Engineering the rotary selector would have been pretty easy with solenoids. The neutral position is kept with an spring in both ways. now add a solanoid on the right and one on the left. On activation of one of the solenoids you push the selector to one side which selects the corresponding marble. Now use a spring to bring back the selector to the neutral position and release the marble.
Greetings from a swiss mechanical engineer ☺️
Hi, not a mechanical engineer here but trying to understand solenoids. would 5/3 solenoids work as well? they have 3 output positions, so left, right, and neutral, would that be usable for this application?
I admire your persistence in designing and building these monstrous projects! Keep going, you inspire lots of people.
Well, that's the idea I just told in the Pt4 from the previous clock! You are way ahead of me! lol
Dude, I’m half way through this and the insane understanding and skill to accomplish all this is top notch! Incredible!
I love how 3d Ivan and human Ivan tilted when the machine tilted at 1:30
I LOVE watching these videos. Thank you for showing your thinking, fails, adjustments, and successes. I can't wait to see the next steps!
Every step is a little more amazing than the last. You are brilliant, sir. And your tendency to consider the advice in the comments just adds to the value of your videos! Thank you!
You put so much work into this designing each track multiple times and programming, not to mention coating all the marbles. I appreciate it as it inspires me and keep up the awesome work!
Get exited to see his videos pop up. The best parts are the trial and error process and his explanations. Plus he is a great teacher
I have an idea for turning the bearings black.
Run them through an abrasive tumbler to remove the chrome, then dip them into blueing fluid.
Thank you so much for making and sharing your journey with the marbles. Utterly fascinating 🙂
You're an absolute chad for even trying, really cool project.
The amount of dedication to this clock. I like the process of trial and error.
4:04 That is really satisfying to watch 😀
If you pay close atteattention to, you can see him slowly losing his marbles as the project continues.
Joking aside, this is absolutely incredible. I love watching these videos. I can’t wait to see how this project turns out. Hopefully you can maintain your sanity as you make all those black marbles.
I thought it was done BUT YOUR ADDING SECONDS! YOU ABSOLUTE MAD MAN! Mad respect
The entertainment value you bring while guiding us through your thought and build process cannot be understated. Thank you for your efforts and creations!
This man has grit, I appreciate the level of patience and determination it takes to not give up or rage quit.
Honestly, this is a genuine work of art!
I love that the marble clock series is continuing like this! I'm curious to see how you will fit the digits close to one another when the unit is so wide...
This rapid testing with prints is absolutely my jam, great work
I can't wait to see this progress.
This just keeps getting better
Genuinely an inspiring amount of effort goes into these projects, love watching these updates
THIS ! is the wildest thing on this planet !
I cant wait to see this part working alongside the other minutes and hours
Every part of this design is so clever!
Nice to see that the track length timer for the marble machine X is coming along nicely :D
I'm glad this series is back!
Losing your marbles have never been better Illustrated.
Incredible.
Engineering and humour all in the one video!
Thanks Mate from Sydney Australia loved your explanation and delivery! Keep it up! Cant wait for the rest of this series and your future challenging projects. Carl
Muy bueno, Iván! Deseando ver la continuación del proyecto...
This is madness... I LOVE IT!
Dude is just insane, can't wait to see the next video
Amazing!
A suggestion for coloring the marbles: Baked-on electrostatic powder coating.
A suggestion for the magnet-sticking issue: Brass marbles, if they even exist.
Also, an idea for a future project, now that you are dealing with multiplexing: A marble display using colored marbles.
I have an idea that can help the clock go faster. Prebuild all digits from 0 to 9 with maldes. Like that you can change the digit every second and you dont have to wait until the the next number is made
This is INCREDIBLE! You're amazing!
I can't wait to see the next step in this build. I'm hooked.
So excited for this!
I love how you find all those great solutions! Nice video as always Ivan!
I appreciate you documenting your decent into absolute madness
My poor guy, you're insane. I understand. And i watch everything, enjoying it.
I love that this is back!
I love Ivan's Engineering design and testing!
Couldn't understand a word but guess I didn't have too. Well done sir.
The ending was mesmerizing.
Can’t wait for the next part!
this is my favorite channel atm
I'll be honest, this is probably the most interesting and pure channel I watch. I love every second of this, you are a damn genius, I'm in awe.
I have a few suggestions:
1. Just use a single colour of the marbles, so you do not need to combine/seperate them.
2. Use several layers of the externally printed marble gates for presetting the next numbers to come up. Every second all gates are moved and the new number is displayed in the front.
3. Just exchange the digits that change from number to number.
4. Use some kind of a release (drop, poke out etc.) mechanism to remove the marbles on the display level
5. Think about which digits change from number to number, so you just have to remove/add a single marble (5 to 6 or 8 to 9)
6. If you keep using the glass marbles, you will not have any magnetic issues.
You should ask around at some local metal working shops about the marbles. They could probably upscale what you're doing and get what you need done in a day.
Very good sponsor integration! I viscerally hate advertisements, but this was good.
This is great! Waiting for the next episode!
😮😮😮I love the overengineering being done on this channel! 🙂
Your outro makesme smile every time. Pure joy
wow the dedication you give this project is insane!
Never has the word marble sounded so wobbly… 😂
Love this video!
This is super satisfying to watch
Art takes dedication. Keep burning metal balls. You got this....also we need a tune playing while all these marbles are playing ;)
Ive been trying to think of a simpler way to sort the black and white marbles other than optically as was done with the other marble clock. If you could use a slightly smaller marble for the black marbles, you could sort them mechanically via a sieve.
This is a really interesting blend between genius and crazy
Such a cool project! I appreciate your dedication homie
There's a video about bluing steel from Clickspring, he does it really consistently using some self-made bluing trays and it always look amazing.
Really awesome. First video was amazing and each video you kick it up a notch!
Simply awesome
This is super cool! Great work!
unbelievable commitment to a project
I think I have an idea for feeding the marbles to the reserve channels. You'll still have the down ramp to a recovery pool, but a) lifting involves something that's basically an Archimedes screw to lift the marbles to the distribution point to three different chutes - one for black, one for white, one for return to pool (to account for the possibility of all of one color's channels being full at any moment). From there, just have the black and white runs set up to lock out full channels and round-robin the reserve channels with accommodations for channels with fewer marbles - and counts of marbles can be had with a few optical sensors. This will simplify the distribution of marbles, but the idea I have is going to create more than just a bit of complexity, and more than one sorting elevator to maybe help speed things along.
you are an amazing human ivan. Please keep it up, I am boosting your algo as muhc as possible
Very fun! Thanks!
such a creative solution
Bro - awesome video, awesome machine, and another slick ad segue. Can't wait for the next installment.
Tenacity. OCD. Self flagellation. Borderline genius/insanity. This guy has them all. Kudos - fascinating, next level engineering, educational and entertaining. I would've just dropped the ball bearings in sharpie ink. :)