I setup my brother's farm with water batteries. We're up to 27 now, each about 30k liters of water. Sun moves it up with pumps in the day, turbines make power during the night. It was the best deal, because water is also a reserve for irrigation purposes, to that effect, we plan to expand it all along the borders of the land, which is basically useless because of the hilly nature of the property. Other than maintenance on the pumps and turbines, clean-up of the solar farm, there's basically no other worries, not for the duration of our lives anyways.
It technically CAN power itself, just not for very long. But that's because he already input a lot of energy into the system. With major redesigns there's no reason that the protentional energy can't lift more balls, as long as he input energy into the system to get the balls there. Same way that the Hoover dam CAN use it's output to pump more water into Lake Mead... until it runs out of stored energy (water). So it's dumb to do, but it CAN do it without breaking any laws of thermodynamics.
Not really, nothing wrong with lifting them balls as such, in theory anyways, as long as the number of balls lifted up < number of balls dropping down.
@@asdfadszfdsafdsfsdfsdfasfa2708since there's a finite number of balls, eventually the number of balls dropping down will go below the number of balls being raised up as the dropped balls are not being replenished.
Wintergatan is my GOAT! He literally commits years of his life on the same task and even though he makes mistakes he continues to press on and not give up!
@@TheTubejunkyLMAO do you understand YOU TUBE'S POLICIES? If so, you would understand that using bots to create channels is PROHIBITED and might get your channel TERMINATED.
@@CheeseMeat_it’s because WG’s developments essentially saved this project. It was mentioned about 10 min into the video. It’s ok for someone to get excited about another creator being mentioned
He started off talking about the issue of renewables not always being available. So he could theoretically lift marbles using a solar panel's power, then charge his phone when he gets back home at the end of the day, when the sun has set.
@@Literally_hatsune_miku_39Well original was around 2016 if I recall right and around 2017 he started making MMX, which he then dropped couple years ago. But then he started third machine soon after. So, I would say this is just perpetual project, which will never actually finish.
@@terohannula30 Yeah, i kinda lost faith after mmx. As much as he keeps saying that he should stop trying for literal perfection and stop feature creep, he keeps doing it over and over.
Okay but you didn't do any math to tell us how many marbles it takes to charge the phone. It feels kinda unfinished since the phone didn't get charged.
Yeah, the title should probably change to "Can falling marbles charge a phone?" rather than "How many ..." since we don't get any indication of how many he used in the video, and the phone didn't fully charge.
He kind of did though, he tells you how many marbles per second you need to have 5W output, machine only charges the phone for 30s, so you have info for both how many marbles are in there and knowing how long it takes to charge your phone with 5W charger you have your answer
I like how the balls are already lined up when they exit the lift but they split and then re-combine for no apparent reason 😂 awesome vid! Might just be your best one yet! 🎉
The animations were so fun makes me want to do some arts and crafts!! sick job jay the scale of this thing is so insane lol. excited for the day you have a whole gallery of all your inventions
"Engineering is all about finding solutions that will make all the work you did last week obsolete" Love that! And so freaking true 😂 As frustrating as it can be, that's totally the point! I'm always impressed by your patience with these projects. That makes a huge difference
You, Wintergatan and Ivan Miranda should definitely join forces to finally find the ultimate answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything...-with marbles.
this is the most well rounded engr channel on youtube imo. great background information and explanation, without being too overbearing. love seeing the process, and you mkae it seem so doable, like any of us could do something similar. inspiring
Obviously it doesn’t work, that would be a perpetual motion machine, which is mathematically impossible due to the fact that some energy is always lost as a heat transfer 16:58
I had this moment a while back as well, where I wanted non-chemical, preferable mechanical, energy storage and wondered why there wasn't such a thing on the market. Then I did similar calculations to yours and quickly abandoned my wish. Good on you for actually building it yourself and seeing how far you could take it at least.
I've always wanted to try and build something like this, but with levers across two machines feeding into each other in synchronization to lift the ball-bearings higher and take advantage of the potential energy gain. It would be crazy engineering for little benefit though.
Really Fun! I’m 90% done with a tootsie roll distribution machine included unloading a 5 lbs bag, up a tracked “Mountian” dosed into a plate based on empty plate sensor. Full electronic schematics done, all 3d printing done, electronics and control panel ready, just having a hard time finding motivation to finish. It’s almost like since I’ve worked out all the issues in my head to make it work, the actually “making it work” has been put on the back burner. Your video has motivated me one step more towards working on it.
I find your use of "one person" very concerning. I hope this was someone who at least knew you when you were a child? Not just some stranger on the street?
In the UK we do actually have a battery, when there's excess power in the grid water gets pumped into a lake and when it's needed it comes back down through a generator. I'm not too sure if it's overly efficient but it is a large scale battery that works
it's pretty impressive that i saw your short video on this just a couple days ago and you had just solved the issue with a binary funnel, now you've built the whole thing and made the video
@@HaileyKerrin Considering he referred to it as a "full bridge rectifier", as popularized by Mehdi, and not a "full-wave bridge rectifier", its proper name, and that the OP liked the comment, it is safe to assume that it was, in fact, an ElectroBOOM reference.
@@Geerice Seeing as he like more or less every comment that everybody has made, then you're a clown. Get a life and stop thinking that UA-cam has any importance in any way whatsoever.
@@pelaajahacks8358 No it isn't you know nothing fool. It's four Diodes, that can also exist as an IC. It's because your pathetic lives revolve around UA-cam and TikTok, it's the only thing you can think about.
Wow. I had been following your incremental shorts and you have crazy focus on a fun but silly idea. Super commendable. You should write a paper on jamming and unjamming of ball bearings. I think it would be super helpful for science. What is the energy in versus the energy out ?
Slightly related fun fact: Perpetual motion IS possible! Think of things in orbit for example, and easy example is if you got a wheel in orbit and spun it, it would never stop spinning, but if you wanted to get any energy from it it would stop.
Of course, an object in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an unbalanced force. However, we cannot extract energy from a perpetual system, as doing so would naturally exert an unbalanced force.
no. when something rotates, its mass undergoing constant ACCELERATION. acceleration requires energy. therefore, all rotating objects eventually come to a halt. well, they do if our physics and mathematical models are correct. even with zero friction, energy is being consumed to maintain rotation, a constant acceleration. newton only stated things will keep moving as applying to linear motion... not rotation. noone has verified either scenario? so who knows, the maths could be wrong...
@@paradiselost9946 some very specific cases of ideal orbits do not decay, because acceleration towards the centre simply means that the direction of passage is always changing. It does not affect the magnitude of the vector nor the fact that the forces are balanced - centrifugal is balanced by centripetal, and in a closed system with ideal bodies the orbit lasts forever. In reality, not the case.
@@RachManJohn "in reality" being the key phrase. as i said, noone has yet verified newtons postulate that objects continue indefinitely until affected by external forces. it cannot be verified. we just take it for granted. could be utterly wrong. shall we take the plunge? in reality... you cant observe it without interacting with it, even light reflecting off the object is an interaction. it requires an infinite length of path, and an infinite length time to observe it despite being unobservable... starting to sound less like a "law" and more like an "assumption"...
Dude this is FASCINATING. So many amazing lessons in here, and you captured the satisfaction of the marble run perfectly. Crazy to think how many marbles are crammed into a little power bank.
Dude, I’ve been super impressed by your recent creations. I think you’ve really found some ideas that are gonna crack the UA-cam algorithm man, congrats. Also, your work ethic in making all these videos in such a short amount of time is super respectable. To increase the torque the motor puts on the flywheel, what if you tried using multiple gear reduction stages? Also, how does the power output of the setup relate to the power input of the chain lifter motors if you were to run this thing continuously? My math brain wants to know.
Gear reductions could help get the thing up to speed faster but wouldnt add any power to the system. For power in vs power out, turns out it’s pretty hard to measure power out!
Not bad, the nosiest battery in history. "honey, what is all that racket coming from your office?" "I bought a phone charger" Entertaining none the less.
I really love you use your shorts as a sneak peak of your upcoming videos rather than using the shorts post video. It makes your low upload rate channel much more engaging. keep up the work, and remember, KISS.
Would have been a good educational moment to show the amount of power going in and out, which I assume you knew would be net negative, rather than suggest that somehow it would generate enough power to even run the empty elevator.
Who tf would skip to the end like it wouldn’t be interesting at all because the answer is obvious if u have enough marble ofc it will power but the process is what makes the video entertaining
I look forward to the second generation of this device that can be hand-cranked, great ratios to increase generator rpm, fly wheel (or other inertial filtering) and charges a phone at least 1% (more in than phone uses idle)
Meanwhile some russian guy made the same thing in 5 minutes with 5 liter water bottle and a broken roomba... The difference is that his thing could really potentially charge a phone in case of emergency
17:03 well if it had been enough power to lift the marbles then you would have gotten a Nobel prize for inventing perpetual motion. Really cool project though and would hopefully work if you hooked up the lift motor to a form of renewable energy
Hi Jay, Grinned from ear to ear the whole time as I knew it was going to be good, and you as always didn’t disappoint!! This was awesome and so interesting. I learned something 😂 So good to see you again. All the best, John
holy i was seeing like all your marble shorts over these last few months but had no clue what it was for, this is an insane idea and is even more insane that you actually pulled it off
"Engineering is all about finding solutions that make all the work you did last week obsolete." ouch, I feel that. I figure that's why we have imperfect memories, so we're not haunted by all of that work forever.
I'd really like to see the comparison of how much energy it takes to put all the balls up to how much it generates going down to see the capacity and efficiency/energy loss.
Wintergarten is a genius, he managed to make vaporware a multi billion dollar product from one viral video and has been living off of it for almost a decade now whilst producing nothing of value.
I noticed at 16:15 that because you split the lanes into 2, they had a better 'flow rate' as there was one less area of congestion, the next best possible upgrade you can do is likely to solve the flow speed of the marbles and/or use heavier marbles
The biggest accomplishment with this build, is keeping the marbles from "log jamming". Wintergatten learned a lot, building his "Marble Music Machine". Getting the channel lengths perfectly calibrated to the diameter of the "steely" marbles is key, to getting that perfect zipper action, to ensure all marbles can be used.
That is actually an interesting visual of energy density and efficiency. It's crazy to look at something that's just so much, do so little, while something that's so little, can do so much.
with a little more knowlede on electrical tehory he could have demonstrated the "efficiency" aspect far better. in the end, he didnt even show the power that was being fed into the phone.
I'm amazed with applied engineering, optimizing each step of the process. My advice is using rods instead of balls can increase the amount of mass, taking advantage of the empty space between generators, and maybe using lead rods (711 vs 467 steel density lb/cu). Greetings!🙂
I do think theres a better solution: - Have a heavy weight on rope - Wind the rope around a winch - That winch will be connected to a Gear Increase Box where the output gear should spin faster - The output wheel will be connected to a generator which will make electricity This is like the same mechanism used in grandfather clocks
I setup my brother's farm with water batteries. We're up to 27 now, each about 30k liters of water. Sun moves it up with pumps in the day, turbines make power during the night. It was the best deal, because water is also a reserve for irrigation purposes, to that effect, we plan to expand it all along the borders of the land, which is basically useless because of the hilly nature of the property. Other than maintenance on the pumps and turbines, clean-up of the solar farm, there's basically no other worries, not for the duration of our lives anyways.
should post some vids on that! sounds interesting
No video?
That’s a lot of water.
I've been thinking lf doing the same since our property is on a slope.
Sounds very cool, would love to see some videos on that
You gotta have a lot of balls to attempt something like this
Maybe, or I’ve just lost my marbles…
@@Engineezyif you lost your marbles why do you have so many
@@alex_is_my_catthat's pretty ballsy to ruin the joke chain
@@CFedits62There's nothing to sphere, the puns can always roll back into this chain.
The fact you felt the need to make sure the laws of thermodynamics still apply is hilarious to me
We are all slaves to thermodynamics 😵
sometimes you just gotta hope for something you know is impossible u know
And it’s why it doesn’t power itself
I did kinda hope the single marble at least worked, haha
It technically CAN power itself, just not for very long. But that's because he already input a lot of energy into the system. With major redesigns there's no reason that the protentional energy can't lift more balls, as long as he input energy into the system to get the balls there. Same way that the Hoover dam CAN use it's output to pump more water into Lake Mead... until it runs out of stored energy (water). So it's dumb to do, but it CAN do it without breaking any laws of thermodynamics.
Watched some of the shorts leading up to this. Could never have guessed this was the end goal. Fantastic!
Thank you!!
me too
@@SeatiesFN Dude is the prophet
@@SeatiesFN?🤔
@@A_H_A_lol me too
16:33 this guy wanted to literally make a perpetual motion machine.
IN THIS HOUSE WE OBEY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS.
Genuinely surprised how far I had to scroll for this comment.
Not really, nothing wrong with lifting them balls as such, in theory anyways, as long as the number of balls lifted up < number of balls dropping down.
@@asdfadszfdsafdsfsdfsdfasfa2708
But less than by ALOT,
cuz this obviously inefficient.
@@asdfadszfdsafdsfsdfsdfasfa2708since there's a finite number of balls, eventually the number of balls dropping down will go below the number of balls being raised up as the dropped balls are not being replenished.
@@asdfadszfdsafdsfsdfsdfasfa2708 what this means is that you can make a timer out of this if you made it efficient enough.
Ball power... Literally
flowma balls chargma phone
Reminds me of uwos lab’s fap generator
Big ball energy
Serene ball that is a cool and power friend :)
literal steel ballz
Wintergatan is my GOAT! He literally commits years of his life on the same task and even though he makes mistakes he continues to press on and not give up!
@@TheTubejunky This comment isnt even about the premise of the video calm down
@@CheeseMeat_ its a bot
@@TheTubejunkyLMAO do you understand YOU TUBE'S POLICIES? If so, you would understand that using bots to create channels is PROHIBITED and might get your channel TERMINATED.
@@maricelty7744 And yet there's thousands of AI bots on this platform created by Google for the purpose of scraping language data from replies.
@@CheeseMeat_it’s because WG’s developments essentially saved this project. It was mentioned about 10 min into the video. It’s ok for someone to get excited about another creator being mentioned
3:28 Where's Electroboom when you need him?
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
Haha I should’ve called him in for that section
FFFFFULL BRIDGE RECTIFIEEEERRRRR!
Full bridge rectifier mentioned
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
1:27 I had no idea the animations were stop motion. That’s actually so cool
Glad you appreciate them (took me SO long to make haha)
i thought it was pretty obvious. great craftsmanship!
“Yo bro what’s that thing?”
“Oh, that? That’s just my charger.”
insanely inefficient charger* lol
@@Chkoupinator it was a joke
The P is stored in the balls. And by P I mean power.
*"OH THAT? THAT"S JUST MY CHARGER"
@@bw1llis aha because it's loud
So this is what those shorts were about...
This is something else. The shorts were making an automatic marble pixel art machine
Edit: wrote the comment before watching the vid. You're right
He’s saying that the shorts he did that were not on the art machine
Yesss!
Since you are powering the lift externally, you’re just adding a bunch of resistance between the wall socket and the generator. 13:26
I think he should have added a hand crank so he can charge his phone whenever
He started off talking about the issue of renewables not always being available. So he could theoretically lift marbles using a solar panel's power, then charge his phone when he gets back home at the end of the day, when the sun has set.
10:04 - Wintergatan is the dude who made the Marble Machine music
Yes. He’s making a new machine now.
@@Literally_hatsune_miku_39Well original was around 2016 if I recall right and around 2017 he started making MMX, which he then dropped couple years ago. But then he started third machine soon after.
So, I would say this is just perpetual project, which will never actually finish.
@@terohannula30 yep. That’s all correct
@@terohannula30 Yeah, i kinda lost faith after mmx. As much as he keeps saying that he should stop trying for literal perfection and stop feature creep, he keeps doing it over and over.
FWIW, the channel name is Wintergatan, but the guy's name is Martin. Wintergatan is the name of his band.
Awesome work dude, I was wondering what the shorts were leading to!
Thanks Mr. LaRue 👊👊
Wintergatan is perhaps the marble GOAT, love seeing him referenced and the spirit of his work expanded upon. This is some super cool work!
8:55 My dude is making factorio lane balancers in real life.
I can imagine the conversation with a neighbor: "How're you storing your renewable energy for later?" - "I pump marbles up my attic" - "...wat?..."
0:34 The "wtf" from the solar panels was really cute
and the wind turbine probably just died
Okay but you didn't do any math to tell us how many marbles it takes to charge the phone. It feels kinda unfinished since the phone didn't get charged.
Overall same weight as water through a turbine?
Yeah, the title should probably change to "Can falling marbles charge a phone?" rather than "How many ..." since we don't get any indication of how many he used in the video, and the phone didn't fully charge.
This is a marble video not a math video
He kind of did though, he tells you how many marbles per second you need to have 5W output, machine only charges the phone for 30s, so you have info for both how many marbles are in there and knowing how long it takes to charge your phone with 5W charger you have your answer
He did tho at the start
I like how the balls are already lined up when they exit the lift but they split and then re-combine for no apparent reason 😂 awesome vid! Might just be your best one yet! 🎉
The animations were so fun makes me want to do some arts and crafts!! sick job jay the scale of this thing is so insane lol. excited for the day you have a whole gallery of all your inventions
"Engineering is all about finding solutions that will make all the work you did last week obsolete"
Love that! And so freaking true 😂
As frustrating as it can be, that's totally the point!
I'm always impressed by your patience with these projects. That makes a huge difference
You should make merch with that line. I'd buy it!
Interesting. I shall now build a mechanism to power my entire house with balls
ha
BALLS
You, Wintergatan and Ivan Miranda should definitely join forces to finally find the ultimate answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything...-with marbles.
It's really satisfying when you explain a problem and show us a smart solution seconds later. Awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed 👊
this is the most well rounded engr channel on youtube imo. great background information and explanation, without being too overbearing. love seeing the process, and you mkae it seem so doable, like any of us could do something similar. inspiring
Appreciate it, glad you like the content! 😄
Obviously it doesn’t work, that would be a perpetual motion machine, which is mathematically impossible due to the fact that some energy is always lost as a heat transfer 16:58
No it wouldn't be a perpetual motion machine. He is using the power from multiple marbles to lift a single one. That's not perpetual motion.
I had this moment a while back as well, where I wanted non-chemical, preferable mechanical, energy storage and wondered why there wasn't such a thing on the market. Then I did similar calculations to yours and quickly abandoned my wish. Good on you for actually building it yourself and seeing how far you could take it at least.
The animation is soooo sick. Amazing video as always!
Thanks for sacrificing another room in your house to the Engineezy cause ❤️
I think it would have been very fascinating if you calculated how many marbles you would need to fully charge your phone.
Yeah, I missed that part too.
6:01 as a male, ouch.
🤣
I felt that
Wow that’s an insane amount of work you put in, was a great watch!
15:11 Wilson’s overly stressed, over stimulated and over caffeinated cousin, Stilson
Also bears a _striking_ resemblance to the Nirvana logo
I've always wanted to try and build something like this, but with levers across two machines feeding into each other in synchronization to lift the ball-bearings higher and take advantage of the potential energy gain.
It would be crazy engineering for little benefit though.
Really Fun! I’m 90% done with a tootsie roll distribution machine included unloading a 5 lbs bag, up a tracked “Mountian” dosed into a plate based on empty plate sensor. Full electronic schematics done, all 3d printing done, electronics and control panel ready, just having a hard time finding motivation to finish. It’s almost like since I’ve worked out all the issues in my head to make it work, the actually “making it work” has been put on the back burner. Your video has motivated me one step more towards working on it.
Visualize all the enjoyment and appreciation by so many others to see it when you're done, might help
@ oh, that’s good!!! Thank you!!!!!
16:50 that's physically impossible because of the laws of thermodynamics, and how energy cant be created or destroyed.
You gotta test the laws of physics every once and a while. Just to make sure they haven't changed.
this guy just made all of wintergatan's work obsolete in 1 meme video 😂😂😂
More engineering puns! Love the rectifier joke.
🤓
Personally i call them a rectumfryer, thanks to AvE
10:44
"Im leaving"
-that one ball
"Im hiding"
-the other ball
One person told me that I ate a marble when I was a child
Well, most children are dumb.
same but it's not hazardous it's just glass, it usually comes out again with no issues
Congrats
My little brother ate mancala beads
I find your use of "one person" very concerning.
I hope this was someone who at least knew you when you were a child? Not just some stranger on the street?
In the UK we do actually have a battery, when there's excess power in the grid water gets pumped into a lake and when it's needed it comes back down through a generator. I'm not too sure if it's overly efficient but it is a large scale battery that works
it's pretty impressive that i saw your short video on this just a couple days ago and you had just solved the issue with a binary funnel, now you've built the whole thing and made the video
Haha! Took a couple months but Im glad you didn’t have to wait too long
@@Engineezyi thought the same..
Holy shit your done already.
Lol the magic of video.😂
I'm never taking engineers for granted ever again. The amount of unexpected problems is staggering.
Loved yhe reference of electroboom "full bridge rectifier" at 3:39
It's not a reference to Mehdi, the name of that device is a "full wave bridge rectifier". It's been around a lot longer than "Electroboom".
it would be a reference if you say it like Mehdi. it's just an IC
@@HaileyKerrin Considering he referred to it as a "full bridge rectifier", as popularized by Mehdi, and not a "full-wave bridge rectifier", its proper name, and that the OP liked the comment, it is safe to assume that it was, in fact, an ElectroBOOM reference.
@@Geerice Seeing as he like more or less every comment that everybody has made, then you're a clown. Get a life and stop thinking that UA-cam has any importance in any way whatsoever.
@@pelaajahacks8358 No it isn't you know nothing fool. It's four Diodes, that can also exist as an IC. It's because your pathetic lives revolve around UA-cam and TikTok, it's the only thing you can think about.
My man is rinsing all the warehouses of white pla 😂
Nice job
🤣🤣
5:13 if only it was free...
Engineezy + Wintergatan + Ivan Miranda = marble party
Wow. I had been following your incremental shorts and you have crazy focus on a fun but silly idea. Super commendable. You should write a paper on jamming and unjamming of ball bearings. I think it would be super helpful for science. What is the energy in versus the energy out ?
It was honestly pretty tricky to determine that! Might make a short on it! Thanks for watching
Slightly related fun fact:
Perpetual motion IS possible! Think of things in orbit for example, and easy example is if you got a wheel in orbit and spun it, it would never stop spinning, but if you wanted to get any energy from it it would stop.
Of course, an object in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an unbalanced force. However, we cannot extract energy from a perpetual system, as doing so would naturally exert an unbalanced force.
@@RachManJohn Yerp :D
no. when something rotates, its mass undergoing constant ACCELERATION. acceleration requires energy. therefore, all rotating objects eventually come to a halt.
well, they do if our physics and mathematical models are correct. even with zero friction, energy is being consumed to maintain rotation, a constant acceleration.
newton only stated things will keep moving as applying to linear motion... not rotation.
noone has verified either scenario? so who knows, the maths could be wrong...
@@paradiselost9946 some very specific cases of ideal orbits do not decay, because acceleration towards the centre simply means that the direction of passage is always changing. It does not affect the magnitude of the vector nor the fact that the forces are balanced - centrifugal is balanced by centripetal, and in a closed system with ideal bodies the orbit lasts forever. In reality, not the case.
@@RachManJohn "in reality" being the key phrase.
as i said, noone has yet verified newtons postulate that objects continue indefinitely until affected by external forces. it cannot be verified. we just take it for granted. could be utterly wrong.
shall we take the plunge?
in reality... you cant observe it without interacting with it, even light reflecting off the object is an interaction.
it requires an infinite length of path, and an infinite length time to observe it despite being unobservable...
starting to sound less like a "law" and more like an "assumption"...
3:33 what simulator is this
Idk
It’s called brilliant
I know it but I don't think I can say it
Dude this is FASCINATING. So many amazing lessons in here, and you captured the satisfaction of the marble run perfectly. Crazy to think how many marbles are crammed into a little power bank.
1:07 clock set to 420
I noticed that and then realized I’m watching this at 4:20am
Wow, you put in so much work! It was amazing to watch!
Dude, I’ve been super impressed by your recent creations. I think you’ve really found some ideas that are gonna crack the UA-cam algorithm man, congrats.
Also, your work ethic in making all these videos in such a short amount of time is super respectable.
To increase the torque the motor puts on the flywheel, what if you tried using multiple gear reduction stages?
Also, how does the power output of the setup relate to the power input of the chain lifter motors if you were to run this thing continuously? My math brain wants to know.
Gear reductions could help get the thing up to speed faster but wouldnt add any power to the system. For power in vs power out, turns out it’s pretty hard to measure power out!
3:33 the rectifier joke was great. I appreciate you explaining it otherwise I might have missed it lol
My disappointment when he didn't yell "FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIEEEEER" was immense.
🤣
Not bad, the nosiest battery in history.
"honey, what is all that racket coming from your office?"
"I bought a phone charger"
Entertaining none the less.
3:32 ELECTRIC BOOM REFRENCE?
Unlikely. Never heard of that.
I really love you use your shorts as a sneak peak of your upcoming videos rather than using the shorts post video. It makes your low upload rate channel much more engaging. keep up the work, and remember, KISS.
Would have been a good educational moment to show the amount of power going in and out, which I assume you knew would be net negative, rather than suggest that somehow it would generate enough power to even run the empty elevator.
Right. It would have taken almost zero effort to show the output power and input power for the full load.
Hey bro are you ready to go?
“Yeah just let me grab my phone charger real quick”
skip to 17:20
Who tf would skip to the end like it wouldn’t be interesting at all because the answer is obvious if u have enough marble ofc it will power but the process is what makes the video entertaining
thanks
because no one wants to hear someone talking useless crap for 16 min straight
In this episode watch an engineer not understand generators or utilise gear ratios to do actual electricity generation
I look forward to the second generation of this device that can be hand-cranked, great ratios to increase generator rpm, fly wheel (or other inertial filtering) and charges a phone at least 1% (more in than phone uses idle)
Seriously one of the most amazing science videos I've every watched. So much amazing pragmatic engineering going on. So cool! Subscribed!
Meanwhile some russian guy made the same thing in 5 minutes with 5 liter water bottle and a broken roomba... The difference is that his thing could really potentially charge a phone in case of emergency
17:03 well if it had been enough power to lift the marbles then you would have gotten a Nobel prize for inventing perpetual motion. Really cool project though and would hopefully work if you hooked up the lift motor to a form of renewable energy
First!!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🤓
What 3d modelling software do u use. Impeccably satisfying as always bro. Cant wait for the next one!
Worth all your effort, not only you had fun doing it, I had fun watching it, you got skills :)
I really like the build up of watching your shorts and then seeing how the final project turns out. Great video!
Hi Jay, Grinned from ear to ear the whole time as I knew it was going to be good, and you as always didn’t disappoint!! This was awesome and so interesting. I learned something 😂 So good to see you again. All the best, John
This is the coolest video out there! Thanks for the hard work you did in making that complex and amazing machine!
Glad you enjoyed it!
holy i was seeing like all your marble shorts over these last few months but had no clue what it was for, this is an insane idea and is even more insane that you actually pulled it off
Don't know if it makes sense for power generation, but you can make a computer out of this!
Never been to the channel before. That was fun and very satisfying to watch. Nice work, man!
Can’t wait for your next videos. The lead up in shorts and the final product were all so entertaining!
Bro is good with balls 💀
Homie handles them nicely😳
@hlarjay7503 lil too nicely 😭
I love your channel. The paper stop motion animation was well done and fun to watch ❤
"Engineering is all about finding solutions that make all the work you did last week obsolete."
ouch, I feel that. I figure that's why we have imperfect memories, so we're not haunted by all of that work forever.
I love your marbles videos sooo much. It has just such a deep level of satisfaction.
I'd really like to see the comparison of how much energy it takes to put all the balls up to how much it generates going down to see the capacity and efficiency/energy loss.
Man I kept watching your shorts and I was super excited to see this video. It was amazingly useless but so much fun to watch being built. Great job!!!
video was so interesting that I watched all of it without skipping. Amazing concept, got to learn alot of things
Wintergarten is a genius, he managed to make vaporware a multi billion dollar product from one viral video and has been living off of it for almost a decade now whilst producing nothing of value.
I noticed at 16:15 that because you split the lanes into 2, they had a better 'flow rate' as there was one less area of congestion, the next best possible upgrade you can do is likely to solve the flow speed of the marbles and/or use heavier marbles
Amazing man.. You did something which normally people think only on drawing paper level only.
The biggest accomplishment with this build, is keeping the marbles from "log jamming". Wintergatten learned a lot, building his "Marble Music Machine". Getting the channel lengths perfectly calibrated to the diameter of the "steely" marbles is key, to getting that perfect zipper action, to ensure all marbles can be used.
11:05 -- Christ almighty just about blew out my eardrums with that backing track :P
LOVE ❤ your stop-motion paper animations!
Oh... and the machine is cool too.
This would be a great experiment to see in physics classes
That is actually an interesting visual of energy density and efficiency. It's crazy to look at something that's just so much, do so little, while something that's so little, can do so much.
with a little more knowlede on electrical tehory he could have demonstrated the "efficiency" aspect far better.
in the end, he didnt even show the power that was being fed into the phone.
I'm pretty sure this is Stuff Made Here's long lost brother...
I love how you are willing to obviate the designs if your previous videos. Awesome video!
We will have flying cars by 2024.
2024:
I'm amazed with applied engineering, optimizing each step of the process. My advice is using rods instead of balls can increase the amount of mass, taking advantage of the empty space between generators, and maybe using lead rods (711 vs 467 steel density lb/cu). Greetings!🙂
Man, you get my support!
Keep up the good work!
This seems to be a great challenge. I'm glad you had the balls to do it.
Hell yeah this is awesome! 👏 your videos are so inspiring. I didn’t know about pumped hydro systems
Very nice to see a mechanical powerbank working! Nice project!
Lovely! I'm going to share this with my grade 11 physics class when we study energy:)
I do think theres a better solution:
- Have a heavy weight on rope
- Wind the rope around a winch
- That winch will be connected to a Gear Increase Box where the output gear should spin faster
- The output wheel will be connected to a generator which will make electricity
This is like the same mechanism used in grandfather clocks