Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

Remember Martin Molin's Marble Machine X, the mechanical, musical Rube Goldberg machine that uses some 3,000 components and a hand-turned crank to drop marbles in sequences onto acoustic and electric ...

“First, it’s important to say I didn’t invent the culture of the marble machines,” Martin Molin says. “Are you aware of the marble machine culture? It’s such a scene.” I was not aware of such a scene, ...

Last year, artist and musician Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan shared the results of his mechanical labor of love with the online community – the Musical Marble Machine. A captivating ...

Stuntman and woodworker Ben Tardif has spent the last three years on a very important project — building an epic marble machine. Dubbed "Marble Mountain" by its creator, the structure is comprised of ...

Swedish band Wintergatan may be widely known for its Marble Machine music video (which featured a machine dropping marbles to play drums, a bass, and other instruments), but today I learned that ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X_iW9nrBtHI] Keeping with my theme of DIY projects as gifts, I present to you this little treat, a ...

Marble machines are the coloring books of the appliance world. A weirdly soothing attention vortex, this contrivance asks nothing and offers nothing except the joy of watching gravity pull a sphere ...

Pincho balls are circulated like a Pythagora switch by combining wooden handwheel handles, gears, rails, etc. with drums, vibratophones and bases, turning the handwheel handle, and when the pachinko ...

The internet has often been at the forefront of musical invention in the modern age. But one Swedish musician has seemingly taken that to the next level, after he has created a huge, hand- crafted ...