BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt.1. 

After watching Martin trying to build the MMX for several years, I wonder what world of pain we're about to see unfold here.

Wintergatan engineering nightmare moment

14:44 Did anyone else notice the Subscribe button glow and light up when he told us to subscribe? I have never seen that before, but this project and that magic he pulled has earned my subscription. Would love to see you finish this awesome project!

And another RU-vidr loses his marbles embarking on a years long mission to tame the mighty marble :)

Es de las pocas veces que veo a alguien español atreviéndose a hablar en inglés en RU-vid y me alegra, parece que nos da vergüenza o algo, ojalá más gente como tú. ¡Brutal el proyecto!

Looking forward to see how this turns out! Also loving the black filament 😄

I love this idea, but I can't help but thinking that breaking it down into individual digits that change vertically downward would make it slightly easier. Have a nozzle of marbles that deposits the right amount of each color into a buffer, release the lower number from the 'display', release the upper number down to that in the 'display,' repeat. Still a herculean effort but you have more time to prepare the display, and more help from gravity in advancing it

As someone who tried to design a contraption to sort black and white marbles at secondary school, over 50 years ago, and never got anywhere close to a working solution - I'm very much looking forward to the next episode. Your ingenuity and skills are inspirational - please continue making things and sharing the highs and lows.

Right now it's a cool marble raceway! I can't wait to see how you separate the black from the white and arrange them to be in the correct order.

This is an awesome project. A brush at the bottom of the ramp, hanging from the marble catcher should absorb all the excess energy and reduce your marble loss significantly, if you're still losing your marbles. Was really curious on how you were going to reorganize the colors on a fixed track.

"It's only a small marble clock. How hard can it be?" *Wintergatan screaming from a distance*

Can't wait to see how you separate the marbles by color. I think a clock that updates every 5-10 minutes would be impressive let alone every minute. I wonder if using steel balls and electro magnets might be the play instead of white marbles. BUT IDK I am not an engineer and can't wait to see this finished.

My favorite RU-vid genre is Marble Contraptions. Let me tell you how refreshing it is to see a project with reasonable goals rather than be subject to endless feature creep and perfection paralysis! Good idea, good work, and good machine!

I thought he had been too quiet…. 😂 Edit: STRONGEST BACK IN RU-vid!!

Oh Gosh, I feel like a 12 years old watching this, what a nostalgic feeling. MORE CONTENT PLEASE... Thank you for the marble idea!

Love the project you got this! Marbles are like water, finding their own way… Strongest back on all of youtube 😂 👨‍🍳👌

But… can it play music?

I appreciate your dedication to sanding and making custom sanding tools. Great work!

So glad the youtube algo sent this video my way. Now to go back and binge watch everything.

Seems like an oversight to not have made the marbles drop vertically so you could have only flushed the minutes, 10 minute and hour marbles as necessary rather than resetting the WHOLE display every time.

Winter gartan had lots of headaches with marbles and has a lot of great solutions. You should have some vertical tubes that the marbles run over, and an adruiono that selects if the tube should open and let the marble drop, based on the color needed.

If you adjust the channels vertically, you can easily track and measure changes in individual time increments. You can account for the units of seconds, then the decades of seconds, then the hours, and finally, the decades of hours :)

Watching those marbles fall down only to get scooped up and dropped again, one must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Good luck! Really looking forward to watching "BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt.196: MAYBE WE CAN INCLUDE SECONDS AFTER ALL?? (DESIGN EXPLODES AGAIN)" in a few years! :P

"Hourglass style clock doesn't work with marbles, how do we tell the time?" Ivan: "Hold my beer."

Amazing project Ivan! 🤘😎🤘 can't wait to see the future updates!

I like just listening to this guy talk. He sounds so positive.

A "Mad Scientist" and his "Laboratory". Love the videos and adore the projects!

I love how you make design insanity a new normal!

Impresionante! Podrías girar 90 grados las pistas para descartar solo las bolas de los minutos con cada cambio de minuto. Esperando el siguiente!

Your joy and enthusiasm is contagious

there's something satisfying about watching Ivan Miranda build.

Awesome project! To stop the marbles jumping out of the bottom tray, how about narrowing the exit from the "covered" section. I.e. if the exit gate is only 1.2-1.5 marbles high then they won't jump out as easily. Now for the elephant in the room, how are you planning to sort the marbles before building up the time display? Might I suggest switching to steel and ceramic ball bearings? This would give you 3 easy ways to sort the marbles and the marbles would all be a uniform size. (weight, magnetism, and conductivity)

This looks super cool! Thank´s for your amazing content 💜

this is probably the most realistic diy video ive ever seen, the guy listens to music while he is working, you just dont see that anywhere else

El acento español es inconfundible 😂 Maravilloso vídeo! Love the idea

Great project idea but you're going to run into a problem with the marble bias at the end, most of the marbles want to end up in the far right corner, which affects which gate they come out of on top. Additionally you need a sorting mechanism between black and white marbles, or else your clocks activity will be entirely dependent upon your total supply of black and white marbles. Not only the sorting mechanism but a stacking mechanism that picks and chooses where black and white marbles go into each channel to display the numbers you want to see. Of course all of this would have to occur within 60 second intervals so that you have hour and minute time scale. Although not an immediate problem, the mechanism for popping the marbles out of the lifter is rubbing on the backside of the lift belt, short term this is fine but long term either the popper will rub down and no longer be effective, break, or even wear grooves into the backside of the belt which may affect operation. It's a super cool clock idea but a bit of a mechanical nightmare to employ. Ironically I'd argue that you don't have to worry too much about your tolerances for the marble gates and paths and the marbles themselves, you spent a colossal amount of time making it all so precise when you could've designed around the marble size being inconsistent, in the belt the size matters more but a design change could mitigate that too, just a thought as far as overloading yourself with work goes.

Ivan, me fascina como consigues todo esto. La expansion de tu canal es 100% merecida. Suerte en el futuro!

I’m a 65 year old woman with zero skills that require more than a hammer or screwdriver. But I was fascinated by your tenacity. Can’t wait for Pt 2. Can’t even imagine how you’re going to make this work. But I have faith that it will happen. Got a new subscriber here. Build on. 😊

Suggestion: Put the marbles in a tumbler for 2 hours. This will smoothen the surfaces even more. Nice project!

But... ITS NOT RED!!

Iḿ very much wondering how you wil lget the marbles in the right order to display the next time, mybe just bypassing unfitting marbles in each row when they come towards the display section. could be done with a simple light sensor (like the line follower bots) and an arduino that keeps track of which marble is needed....sounds like a nightmare to code...

Just the shots needed for the video and the stitching and editing I imagine took weeks. The design and thought going into the machine itself? I can't imagine. Can't wait for the next parts.

Oh no! We can not lose another great RU-vidr to the marbles!

Big MMX vibes here. The sound, good memories.

Niesamowita konstrukcja. Lubię oglądać konstrukcje domowej roboty

Marble machine X, Ivan Miranda edition. Welcome to the next 10 years of content on this channel, lol. Good luck Ivan.

If I've learned anything from watching Wintergatan, it's that marbles are a right pain in the ass to do anything with.

Thermochromic paint them all. Pre-chamber with a grid of heaters that warm up the time ones. No sorting required, just some thought about control circuits. They’ll have cooled back down by the time they’ve climbed the lift. Possibly run them through a water bath on the way back. Might allow for 1min updates. Actually closer to an LCD than having different colour marbles.

Design concepts that use 3D printing for something that would be super, super hard to fabricate by other means are the _best_ concepts. Fantastic stuff!

Original, silencioso y portable, jejeje. Miranda, eres un crack

If you thought the •tick•tick•tick• of a normal clock was annoying... Seriously, this is such an inspired alternative to the traditional marble clock. Looking forward to the final finished horologe!

Proof that you should work smarter not harder, martin should take couple notes from this guy

Sir, you make me smile, thank you very, very much

Thank god there are enough crazy stubborn tenacious people out there knowing how to handle a camera to fill my evenings with entertainment!

The algorithm has brought me another impossible marble project. Circuits be praised.

This is going to be the loudest clock ever. Can't wait!

It’s WINTERGATAN marble machine all over again 😊. ❤

There is a rule that you should follow my good man. At least 10 times per each video you should say "Add some Spacers!!!!". You have been slacking on this lately. I cannot wait to see how this progresses! It would be fun to see you and Wintergatan work one something together.

These just keep getting better and better.

Fukineh! Beautiful work buddy. The "it works" realization is priceless. I literally lol. Hilarious. You are so smart even when some silly thing like that happens. Thanks! Cheers!

Bold move for making the display horizontal. I would've thought a vertical display would be easier so you could drop the segments individually instead of all together.

The lenghts some people are ready to go to just not having to read an analog Clock. Great projekt ;)

Thank you RU-vid for suggesting me this channel!

You are amazing! I like your sense of humor, great work man!

If you get working on some sort of marble machine, you must always remember: Pain is temporary. Glory is forever!

Such a cool project idea!

This man must be supported.Thats a big patience.

I have two suggestions for you: 1_ use metallic marbles ( it's They are all the same size and very smooth and do not create such a rough surface like glass marbles, then just paint it in white and black) 2_ Use Dry lubricants like graphite and molybdenum disulfide on the threads or paths , it will make your marbles traffic very smooth.

Ivan, you are my favorite crazy maker on RU-vid...and also have the strongest back!

I love how right at the end he mentions how he had to reprint the mesh cap to prevent the marvels to jump out the machine, and just 1 second before the video ended he had like 10 marvels escaped with the new part installed. So painful.

if the ticking noise of the marble lift happened once every second, that'd be amazing. :D

Ivan you've built and incredible machine. The springy combs to eject the marbles is brilliant but whats better is that clunk, clunk sound it makes. That adds a new dimension to a mechanical clock. Your dedication and engineering is top class. Thanks for showing us and I cant wait to see the progression.

Let the marbles hit the floor, let the marbles hit the floor, LET THE MARBLES HIT THE FLOOOOOOR. Sorry, I'm better now. This looks super fun! Can't wait to see how you sort white from black to get the numbers to display properly. Thanks for sharing!

His face at the end when his fix didn't do the job... chef's kiss

Another channel in marble hell :) . I believe marbles exist only to make engineers go crazy or depressed. Keep your head up Ivan! And don't let yourself become like Martin.

I admire your passion. In the end all pursuits in life are equally meaningless so why not a marble race? Very entertaining. 👍

Instant subscribe just looking at the thumbnail. How creative and ingenious

looking forward to part 2! the algorithm seems to like your enthusiam!

In the most fun way possible, I like that your accent is like a test on my brain to how well I know English, it’s kinda like a game every video

Ivan, your videos are so impressive that I will actually watch your sponsors commercials. 🤯🤯👍👍

*se voltea y quita la camisa* Mira rey, de puro levantar canicas 😆😂😂 this clock is gonna be awesome!

I like that he just continuously lets marbles fall onto the floor

Even without the clock, this is pretty cool.

You've got a Wintergatanarian task ahead of you best of luck.

Martin sadly put on a very public seminar of how to slowly lose your marbles by getting lost in trying to build the impossible.

Good way to make a mini-horse track. lol "Alright, ladies and gentlemen. The marbles all have numbers, pick yours and place your bets!"

the combing made a satisfying tick tock sound!

I am forever reminded that there are 3 kinds of engineer - The kind who will make something in the most straight forward manner. The kind who will make something with the fewest parts because they know it has to be constructed by someone with basic knowledge. The kind who will over engineer it not because it is practical to do so, but simply because they can.

oh boy, that pause at 6:03 was really funny, great work!

take my money!!!!! you sir a genius. much love from kenya

Can't wait for part 167

I can relate to this sentiment: "am I gonna finish this project or is it gonna finish me" 😆

You should 3D print your own marbles!

Could also display a QR code with that. Excited to see more.

Here's an idea. Use a PV sensor to select white from black and a solenoid to kick one of the colors to a different track. Maybe have two layers for the top section and send all the whites to the back. Then you can selectively add them back in at the gate.

Wow, instant like! This is going to be so satisfying when it's complete. I can't wait to follow along :)

Martin Molin looks good in that all-red onesie.. 😉

Setting up the digits befor the lift is the best way in my opinion as it also keeps all the sensors lower to reduce weight

Hi Ivan, das ist wohl daß absolut Coolste Projekt was ich bis jetzt als 3D Druck gesehen habe!