I love this and all your marble machines. I want to make my own, but don't know where to start. Are you willing to share or sell your files so that others can make the same thing? Otherwise I'd love to learn from you how to do this.
Hi @jeremit0, thank you for your compliment. I'll start working on the next marble machine in the fall. I'll be uploading the how to videos on youtube and provide the files in drop box. I was starting to use Thingiverse for providing files, but found it took a lot of time. My page name there is www.thingiverse.com/ebwpob53/designs
I hope you sell these to sustain the hobby. It is great to watch these videos. Maybe try clear filament, glow in the dark balls and some UV LED's next.
Yes, there is an art show in town (a resort town) that I'm planning on showing the 3 I've made recently. Wondering what I could get for them. I was considering the glow in dark filament. Need to source a led blacklight ribbon light though. I hadn't considered the glow in dark balls. Good call, ill go look now.
All set! UV ribbon light, day glow filament, and day glow glass marbles have been ordered. It'll be a good application for the marble pump I designed. Thanks for motivating me. Now i'll be busy for the next 4 months.
I love ball chains, but need to make the drive pulley grooves spot on. Add a spring loaded tensioner and it will reduce the jumps. You can also drive the ball chain with a lantern pinion. Much easier to make.
You are a master, you have my deep respect. I am developing kids magnetic kit and I would like to have your opinion. Currently I was solving lifter which will be able to work on both ways of rotation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--2FJOyO_ErA.html I would appreciate your opinion, sir.
Wow one of the best marble machine i seen yet lots of great features and your skill is amazing Please let us know when you update more files on thingiverse or maybe you have other sites that you did post on? All your designs are amazing
Thank you for your input. The lighting was an experiment which I probably won't use again. It is difficult to see the lights when the room is bright and difficult to see the "mechanism" when the room is dark.
What you do when you have 14 rolls of gold filament, 100 screws, 50 molybdenum magnets and 4 ball bearings and a thousand hours free time just lying around. :D Awesome, entertaining and very, very clever. As others have said, thanks for sharing.
Very nice! your updates inspired me to try out a marble track of my own that i made using tinkercad. i havnt given fusion 360 a try yet, would you say it is easier to use?
Hey! thanks. That's awesome! Fusion 360 takes a while to learn but there are a lot of tutorials online. Start out small to get the hang of it. It's a million times more powerful than Tinkercad.
Hello, after seeing all your stuff i was extremely impressed and had the motivation to build a 3d printed machine on my own. Do you have an email account or discord to contact you with some further questions about your work?
Everything is for sale! I guess it depends on where you live. This is a large item to send. Also, hanging them is very particular. It has to hang exactly level in relation to where it was when I built it, or it won't work. There's about $300 of materials and 200-300 hours of designing and building.....$$$
Yes, I had started a video of how I build them but didn't like the video quality, and length! I'll post a video with a brief description of what i do to build one.
I believe it's a minor design flaw in the chain cogs. The balls in the ball chain seem to get hung up when they're supposed to be withdrawing from the cog. If I were to redesign them, I would make the fillet around the top edge larger. Thanks for watching.
Amazing! I love to see your process of tackling one bit size piece of the project at a time. Do you share your stl files on printables or thingaverse? I would love to remix some of these ideas
Wow that’s so neat. Looks like I would be putting a lot of quarters in that machine to watch. Really nice. A job well done. Thanks for posting fine engineering
I wanted the marbles to travel slowly, all but 3 of the features uses a twin rail system. The "rails" are very close to the rotational centers of the marbles. They are moving slowly, but spinning rather quickly.
Hello Hector, sorry,I don’t have those files saved as STL. I have started working on another marble machine that I am saving as STL files. The ones I have completed are available on Thingiverse. Go to “Designers” then search for Eric Wiest, I’m the one in New Hampshire.
