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The Marble Divider Mechanism

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Table of Contents
Abstract......................................................................................................................................................3

Introduction................................................................................................................................................3

Methods......................................................................................................................................................4

Results.........................................................................................................................................................6

Figure 1: The Marble divider Mechanism..........................................................................................7

Conclusion..................................................................................................................................................7

Recommendations......................................................................................................................................8

References.................................................................................................................................................10
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Abstract

The huge music box consists of a mechanical structure of wheels, belts, funnels, paths

and sculpted wood components to capture and re-rout marbles. The roll and beat against a

vibraphone, drum and bass, activate them and produce sounds that are regulated at any moment.

The computer is also programmable, and you can change the music melodies when you're

playing. Molin was called MacGyver for the ingenuity of his friends and still designed his

instruments himself. A multi-Instrumentalist from the band Wintergatan (who gives its name to

the marble machine). He designed an accordion, an autoharp, a glockenspiel and another wacky

tool, and this ambitious machine has now come up for him. Inspired by the current subculture of

the marble machine, it took the inventor more than two years to complete this musical box,

which comprises up to 3000 handcrafted parts.

He has filmed all the methods in short YouTube clips so that you can see him in his

studio, creating the Flywheel, choose the size of the teeth on wooden machines, measure marble

raising mechanisms and plug pins into the wheel. This part of the Marble Machine is a grid that

functions as an analogue MIDI version. Move plastic pins around on the 22 wheel tracks and

shift notes. It's confusing almost incomprehensibly. A violin is attached to the gears that lead to

spinning belts that transport marble that drops to xylophone keys and then falls in the funnels.

Introduction

Martin Molin is an artist, a Wintergatan party member. He is also the founder of the

"Wintergatan Marble Machine," a fantastic wooden invention that plays with 2,000 marbles, both

melody and rhythm. As he set out to create a musical instrument running in marbles, it only took

him a few months. The procedure was a bit more complex than he originally anticipated. Molin
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finally revealed his finished work now, more than a year later: an immense hand-made box of

music driven by a manual squeeze that makes music by using about 2000 metal marbles.

Molin claims he has hacked other instruments to change them and created a small hand-

operated music box once, but the marble machine Rube Goldberg is the first one. To hear Molin

say this, the Marble Machine is like his version of Kevin Costner's Field of the Dreams baseball

diamond. He "has been quite attached to this dream" of constructing one since discovering about

the other hobbyists who make marble machines. He then toured the Speelklok Museum in

Utrecht, The Netherlands. The museum is full of music boxes, musical clocks, street organs,

some of which date back to the 1500s. "These robots I couldn't get out of my brain," Molin says.

The Marble Machine of Wintergartan operates by sending thousands of steel marbles,

although very complex, around a circle. When Molin turns a curb, the marbles tend to roll

downfalls leading to various keys on a vibraphone. However, this is not the only device

integrated into the computer. Molin will open new channels for a kick drum and a cymbal by

flipping various switches and even electric bass. The Marble Machine in Wintergartan is itself a

work of art. After drawing up the blueprint for the Rube Goldberg instrument with 3D tech,

Molin carefully designed almost every piece by hand. This recommendation report focuses on

the latest development of the marble divider by Wintergatan

Methods

During the devices cycle, a vibraphone, bass, kick drum, cymbal and other instruments

are enabled, which play a score programmed into a 32bar loop consisting of the technical parts of

LEGO. The marbles are pushed inside the mechanism using a funnel, pulleys and tubing. The

rhythmic machine raises eight marbles per turn crank[ CITATION Kar18 \l 1033 ]. Driven by
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ratchets and pistons, it stops loading and unloading the marbles at the same place every time. The

pistons are connected by a 2:1 reduction in the gear shaft so that the conveyor belt is in time and

half time. The throw of the pistons s 40mm, the chain pitch 15.875 to 2mm, imperial value, and

the marble diameter precisely twice. All this allows one row of marble to be lifted precisely by

crank shift. The ratchets move 40 mm but only pick up the chain and move precisely 31,75 mm

per crank.

Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan debuted a machine that plays music with

2,000 marbles after two years of practice. The marble machine contains multiple instruments,

such as a bass guitar, cymbals and vibraphone.

 Contact microphones have been used to record the vibration sound exactly

 The drum sound was made with a touch microphone and dry rice.

 The marbles are marbles of 11 mm steel ball.

 He rendered all the equipment that powered the computer by hand

However, from the new marble divider, the marbles look like they have been trapped

over the wheel of the demagnetizer, designed to achieve perfect demagnetization as fresh

marbles arrive in the pipes below. This design is inspired by the binary marble adding machine,

which adds to the marble divider design by Wintergatan. It recommended that the marble moves

as slowly as possible from the top of the board to a target at the bottom. But this is merely a

potential beginning point for what will rapidly become an addictive experience[ CITATION

Çin12 \l 1033 ]. Some of the tests are conducted personally. It is interesting, and try to overcome

them: make the marble ride up a segment or ride up and down; try a loop-de-loop or a lift to

carry marble back to the top of the board, or use many marbles to make more complicated chain

reactions.
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Results

From the marble mechanism, we can understand that the marble run can physically and

interactively understand the mathematics of chance. Thriving through a circular range of

switches and collecting through various containers, terms such as bell-shaped distributions,

binary digits, coin tossing odds, and Pascal's triangle can be shown[ CITATION Sap09 \l 1033 ].

The Wintergatan music band later launched a steep marble machine powered by a hand crank

with almost 2000 stainless steel marble, using programmable release gates and a striking musical

instrument below, via an ingenious transportation device. Marbling instruments include a

vibraphone, bass guitar, cymbals and emulated kicking percussion, a high hat and snare drum

tone with microphones in touch. Two programmable wheels that use Lego Technic beams and

bolt connections to trigger frames to unleash marbles will be used for the music score.
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It produces honeycomb melodies of several marbles. Built from birch plate and steel, it

consists of equipment, pulleys raise fingers and funnels, which work together to produce a

precise and timely release of marbles that strike instruments. The whole process starts by turning

the cabinet to set the 18 "Flywheel that holds rotating energy and gives the musician a way to

keep the time even. Similar to a music box, a marble machine strikes the keys of an integrated

vibraphone, four strings of an electric bass guitar, a bass drum, a snare drum, hi-hat, a single-line

module and a sizzle cymbal, pushing/pulling a set of levers to turn on / off a specific

instrument[ CITATION Res04 \l 1033 ]. The programming wheel has a 64-bar loop, making the

unit identical to the previous orchestras. Each computer is custom designed and can differ from

image to image. 80 inch H x 43" W x 36 inches "D(300 lbs.)

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Figure 1: The Marble divider Mechanism

Conclusion

In cessation, the marble improved divider mechanism on the mechanical groovebox

meanderings of the original, the Marble Machine X builds and throws even more silicon. One

can tell from the fact that this project is much more complicated than ever. As such, Molin has

been supported by numerous manufacturers, designers and manufacturers around the world.

Molin has created a band called Wintergatan, including several similar traps and live performers,

and works to design a truly worthy version of the huge Marble Machine for the tour.

The reason behind the building was the way it looked cooky in a way, strange and

hypocritical, even though it sounds fairly typical, and the mechanical challenge of this thing

would have looked like an amusing dilemma to be resolved with tremendous genius. It doesn't

look at this point as if he plans to sell the thing, so it's just for your fun. Check out a screenshot

above in results or watch the gallery's cogs.

"The marbles behave like water. The nature of water is that it just breaks through everything.

After 100,000 years, it can make a hole in the stone. The marbles act like that" - Martin

Molin.

Recommendations

Apart from receiving many YouTube views, I think another possible use for this gadget

would be for stuff like shows or something else where you put up a stand and attempt to get

people's attention. Marble Machine X and the improved version of the marble divider mechanism

is a complete revision of the original, intended to be more stable for a world tour. [Martin] has

fully refurbished the elevating system by using magnets to grasp the balls from the return bin and
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feed them to a complex splitter. However, after the elevation, the balls were magnetized enough

not to roll onto the divider. The following video reveals the solution of [Martin]: a degausser of

alternating polarity magnets rotating slowly under adhering marbles. As a side note, watching a

guitarist sneak while debugging a technical dilemma is fun and amusing. And it does not stop

there! Now Martin Molin and his Wintergatan band are working on a new marble engine known

as "Marble Machine X." A team of developers and artists helps them. It would be much larger

and stronger than the first Marble Unit! And of much advantage/efficiency using the recent

discovery of the marble divider mechanism.

When Marble Machine X is complete, the band plans to tour the world to perform the

incredible Marble Machine X live on stage!

In moments that education meant that you know Greek Latin Calculus, poetry mechanics

and science as an inventor, you can bring these skills together. Today, specialized fields have

killed this synergistic insight from the box. Being a successful inventor is half as skilled in

certain disciplines.
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