KZread made this video available in 4K finally! There have been some issues with youtube not displaying our recent videos in 4K but if you have a 4K screen you can now take a look at the clean floor in hi res.

@xaviersolivan540

3 жыл бұрын

You're so freaking COOL! LIKE OHMYGOSH I WANT TO BE AS COOL AS YOU ARE

@Dennnnm

3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for the marble machine

@handlemonium

3 жыл бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS! can you play 696,969 marbles next?

@user-lu7fc2mb6h

3 жыл бұрын

Good morning mar bremachinegood sou nd.

@DMadHacks

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, so that's what it was. Hurray for higher bitrates! :D

Martin learned that geometrically balancing the wheel isn't the same as balancing its mass :D

@wombatdk

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking too... it's a lot like balancing car wheels, and with flywheels in particular, mass balancing matters a whole lot more. I've once seen in person what happens when an unbalanced mass of only about 5kg is spinning up to a targeted 3000rpm. The outcome was not pretty. No injuries, but frightening carnage to machinery.

@selli69

3 жыл бұрын

Don't confuse Martin with facts.

@erik....

3 жыл бұрын

All of us who owns a lathe knows this very well.

@MentalEdge

3 жыл бұрын

The second he showed the angle grinder contraption, I knew this would end in tears.

@cougarten

3 жыл бұрын

it was really grinding my gears

"I'm not here to make things easy for myself" is probably the best description for this channel I've ever heard lmao

@dan12321djd

3 жыл бұрын

Look at his spreadsheet use!

@gagiotter4114

3 жыл бұрын

especially when you think that out of ballence does not mean i has to be straight on the otuside. the inner parts need to be balanced too. how true it spins has less to do with shaking than mass distribution, so yeah, he is making it harder on himself. But it's still fun to watch

@dirtydan7834

3 жыл бұрын

Life isn't easy.

@IamJmc1992

3 жыл бұрын

im beggining to believe hes losing sanity by the snare sound

Dear KZread: please don't recommend super awesome and fascinating videos in the middle of the night, when I'm just searching for something to lull me back to sleep.

@_purble

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the MMX rabbit hole. There's no escaping until Martin finishes the machine

@thunderingdoom5304

3 жыл бұрын

And there is always room for improvement

@erkme73

3 жыл бұрын

Middle of the night piss break trapped me here.

@lorrieannesilvey474

3 жыл бұрын

😊

@MARYANNE269

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 Yes cos you know if you save to watch later you rarely do.. Sleep well x

100% engineer, 100% musician, 1000% artist.

@johnnytbg9142

8 ай бұрын

I wanted to write similar comment and I found this just below pinned comment 😮

@vertigo8715

6 ай бұрын

1000000% OCD

Martin: "this is my best idea EVER!" Martin 2 minutes later: "this turned into a nightmare"

@TecknoVicking

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it was his best comedy idea ever.

@Talaxianer

3 жыл бұрын

*idee

@SinclairWest

3 жыл бұрын

@@Talaxianer I don't know where you live, but where (in a form of english language) is it pronounced idee?

@Talaxianer

3 жыл бұрын

@@SinclairWest It was pronounced like that by Martin, my comment was just a joke

@SinclairWest

3 жыл бұрын

@@Talaxianer ah okay, just curious ^^ as he is originally from Sweden it's no big wonder. I'm from Germany, we also write "Idee" but pronounce it completely different.

martin: bad news and good news! me: oh dear martin: bad news is the flywheel is unbalanced me: oh dear martin: good news is *pulls out unholy angle grinder rig forsaken by god* me: OH DEAR

@92000

3 жыл бұрын

OH DEER OH REINDEER!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

@ludicrousspeed6422

3 жыл бұрын

This made my day. Thank You!

@SuperTrisset

3 жыл бұрын

O.o

I love how this whole series seems to be a guy saying "There was an easier way to do it... but that wasn't nearly as fun." People like this need all the support we can give.

@crowbard

2 жыл бұрын

True Also cool name dude

@beyondwhatisknown

2 жыл бұрын

The whole machine isn't easy. It's just fun.

@lienzo250

Жыл бұрын

This comment aged terribly

@billiontion6064

Жыл бұрын

@@lienzo250 We wouldn't still be on the journey with him if he had done it the easy way because, where's the fun in that?

@user-zq1qp6hi2q

Жыл бұрын

Это потрясающе! Это сродни созданию космического корабля! 😊💖

This man’s techniques are... unique

@user-ty8uo7cb6w

3 жыл бұрын

How is there 50 likes but only one comment

@northlandgaming8460

3 жыл бұрын

Tunique should be a word, no?

@microwavedgrape4998

3 жыл бұрын

@@northlandgaming8460 no

@youloveme163

2 жыл бұрын

Unique techniques for a very unique project

@phillyphilly_lii6441

2 жыл бұрын

That grinding wheel decision was…..interesting lol

Martin: breaks both of his angle grinders MMX: Finally, a moment of respite Martin: Fixes angle grinder immediately

@dylanpritchard4981

3 жыл бұрын

MMX: DEAR GOD NO

@bencressman6110

3 жыл бұрын

severely underrated comment. I lol'd

@DasVERMiT

3 жыл бұрын

MMX: Surprised Pikachu face

If "Angle Grinder" isn't played live during the world tour, then I'm not going

@DesignedbyWill2084

3 жыл бұрын

Was going to say the angle grinder needs to be part of the Machine.

@rharris22222

3 жыл бұрын

Or in other words "What this song needs is more angle grinder!"

@sturbol

3 жыл бұрын

For sure a potential best seller!!! If there is a lesson to the channel other than the machine itself, It should be it!

@turemiderfjall1340

3 жыл бұрын

@@DesignedbyWill2084 why have a state of the ark electric motor driving the mmx when you can just use the angle grinder?

@muzvid

3 жыл бұрын

LOL!!

My favorite part was the slow transition from the drumbeat to music. I can listen to it all day.

@jababokolishvili4171

3 жыл бұрын

ikr! Would love to hear a full version

25:59 Wintergatan: I'm so happy this will be 100% success That 6 marbles: Let us introduce ourselves

When the angle grinder failed I thought “what is he going to use next? The disk sander?” The next moment, I burst into laughter

@jeffffro7674

3 жыл бұрын

I was the opposite! I thought, he won't burn that machine up, he'll just grind the wheel down to nothing!!!! I was actually frightened, then even more so when he says 3 days.....AHHHHHHH!!!! Then the magnets come out to balance things, oh thank goodness!!!

@user-qf7ud5de9h

6 ай бұрын

Yes😂🎉

@aivjiol

6 ай бұрын

*Spoiler alert*😢 😅

I swear his problem solving begins with, "how can I use an angle grinder for this?" I love it.

@thomasboese3793

3 жыл бұрын

Some people are known as "hammer-mechanics", Martin is an "Angle-grinder-mechanic"!

@litrick5471

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 I think thats more the machinists equivalent to hammer mechanics

@thomasboese3793

3 жыл бұрын

@@litrick5471 I've known so-called-pros who grab a hammer and start hitting before thinking to fix any-and-every-thing... Martin tends to grab the angle-grinder first and can almost fix anything with it.

@jeffffro7674

3 жыл бұрын

This is evident through him having TWO downed angle grinders!!!!!

@TSZatoichi

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the angle grinder ISN'T the solution every time.

That AI voice describing progress and saying how clean the floor was felt so wholesome :')

@mikedett91

Жыл бұрын

I read this comment as the AI was speaking lol 😆

@resonantwoods

Жыл бұрын

Gave me Portal vibes (which is a video game)

@ant5389

6 ай бұрын

@@resonantwoods you really dont need to mention that that is a game lol

When wealth meets _genuine_ musical talent and enginee-uity. Brilliant.

Martin when you play 1 million marbles you should livestream it We all wanna watch and be there for that success

@christow7989

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!!!

@jkobain

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I never thought of this, sounds focking cool!

@letmeshowyouaround713

3 жыл бұрын

Make it the count down for a new year 2021?

@clonkex

3 жыл бұрын

On the other hand it might make an already-stressful test even more stressful. Just thinking Martin may not enjoy that so much.

@donniepanjikaran1388

3 жыл бұрын

@@clonkex Yeah that's true. But so far on this journey we have been with Martin throughout all his wins and fails. So it would be really good to be with him as he achieves one of the biggest milestones ever on the MMX

Martin: uses Excel to document reliability % also Martin: doesn't use the main feature of Excel...

@SilvrSavior

3 жыл бұрын

It is weird to see the cell linking feature to not be used with maths like this. It is so much easier and reliable to just construct the formula once and then copy it to the rest of the rows instead of risking inputting incorrect variables.

@jphuuskon

3 жыл бұрын

Seeing the spreadsheet used like this gave me brain hemorrhage.

@Zestrayswede

3 жыл бұрын

As he has said in one of his earlier videos, he isn't a spreadsheet wiz.

@eclipse-music

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't he using Google Sheets? Not sure if that has the cell linking.

@jwo1f287

3 жыл бұрын

@@eclipse-music can corfirm due to online class that it does. Is just a pain in the ass to do more complex functions

"I'm absolutely floored by how clean that floor is" 🤣

This is an absolutely beautiful blend of music, engineering, and art! The average person has no idea how complex this machine is!

I love how this channel began as a music channel with cool instruments, then turned to an engineering channel with a musical sidedish of music and is now slowly combining both

@billkeithchannel

3 жыл бұрын

Swedish sidedish? LOL!

@SmilingDevil

3 жыл бұрын

I came here for the mechanical solutions in the first place, so for me they channel has improved a lot :)

"THIS IS THE BEST IDEA IVE EVER HAD" turning into "WHO COULDVE GUESSED THIS WOULD GO SO WRONG" Is the relatable story of my life m8

This vid really shows how much work went into this music machine. Its almost overwhelming to see all the little tweaks and adjustments needed to make this brilliant piece of art work. Its crazy.

I was impressed when I thought the title was 3000 marbles. Imagine my surprise at the extra zero

Martin: runs angle grinder for a whole day non stop and grinder quits Also Martin: "Look how they squashed the cable. Now there's your problem!"

@jkobain

3 жыл бұрын

It was the other grinder, my blind guess.

@Cheapiebeepie

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think he was repairing a different grinder. The other one he cooked with this episode’s shenanigans.

@whiskeycan529

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, who put this goofy strain relief here?

@brandonkahn9705

3 жыл бұрын

Comment of the year!

2120: "So, according to my last countings, the perpetual motion engine will not withstand our infinity+1 marbles test and today we will fix it."

Loving the electronic voice which comments on the clean floor! You're the KING, sir!

I love how mechanically inclined this guy is. The spray bottle cooling the flywheel was a good idea

I'm glad to see Wilson taking a more active role in the build.

@myrcutio

3 жыл бұрын

Even if that role is popping balls in his mouth for 4 hours?

@RealityBoy101

3 жыл бұрын

@@henrysteinway_ Buddy, that's even worse!

@sirbacobits7791

3 жыл бұрын

He looks like he’s enjoying it

@Meginjord

3 жыл бұрын

>keeps data in a spreadsheet >calculates data by hand Martin pls

@andrewb378

3 жыл бұрын

*Matt Parker wants to know your location*

@jordansean18

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I loved that... im like "you put the data in cells... just to use it as scratch paper??" Haha

@heitman78

3 жыл бұрын

This. So many do not understand the true power...of the spreadsheet.

@afrmx

3 жыл бұрын

I hovered round the unsubscribe button when I saw him bring up the calculator to do calculations for the spreadsheet!!! The data cells are just beside the percentage cell!!!

@andrewb378

3 жыл бұрын

@@heitman78 I mean I'm not gonna pretend I'm anywhere near an excel expert, but this is simple formulas. Literally just type = in front of the formulas you already have and it'll do it for you, martin!

Who would dislike this? Dude puts so much energy into a machine that’s only purpose is to entertain us.

@fallingraine9615

Жыл бұрын

Some people only like machines whose purpose is to pass butter

@MarasiTemple

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, 1.3k dislikes is about 1.3 to many.

You are like the most inspirational engineer/musician. I love that you don't stop at easy, but you design for maximum functionality as well as aesthetic. As a wannabe musician/mathematician/computer scientist, I love watching your videos and they make me want to apply my knowledge the way you do. Btw, if you had stickers in your merch store, I'd buy some.

10 year after: we have some temperature vibrations, so we freeze mmx to absolute zero) 1 fail of 10000000000 marbles, next vieo we stabilized gravitation and playing in vacuum

@fmga

3 жыл бұрын

We also can’t observe it because of quantum uncertainty so maybe that one marble failed or maybe it didn’t. Next we'll test 10 billion marbles

@blastfiendsunite420

3 жыл бұрын

@@fmga schrodinger's marble

"This is my new song, Angle Grinder" *hellish screaming*

@cyrkielnetwork

3 жыл бұрын

How about "Angel Grindr"? XD

Some of the most beautiful and entertaining engineering I've seen!

Talk about over-engineering and over-thinking. I love it. This is absolutely amazing.

I admire this man and his attitude so much. I hope he never forgets he’s doing so much more than building a machine, he’s motivating millions of people.

@chillfill6512

3 жыл бұрын

„Millions” is too exaggerated but he definitely inspired lot of people...

@kaden56

3 жыл бұрын

@@chillfill6512 I guessed I’m just going off the fact that he has millions of subscribers and assuming that they have all been motivated by him.

@katier9725

3 жыл бұрын

I certainly have been.

Let's appreciate for a moment the character it takes to publish days* of personal failure and a moment of success with that flywheel. He could have skipped that and we would not have known, but he shared it.

@pennyoflaherty1345

3 жыл бұрын

Viele denken dass deine bemuhungen ermutigend sind , Persistenz zahlt sich aus, um deine Fahiqkeiten. 🔐 Du wirst dein Hauptziel errichen!! 🔓🧐

@PeterEnis69

3 жыл бұрын

how did you add that gear, lol

@muharremsuz

3 жыл бұрын

How can you add wilson?

@malloott

3 жыл бұрын

So true, the way he makes fun of his own mistakes makes me truly believe he will pull this off in 2021! Well maybe I am at 55% :p

@jkobain

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterEnis69 it's there for the person being a member of this channel.

You're trully a remarkable engineer and musician, me myself as an engineer find difficulties to comprehend your remarkable creation

I like marbles 🐢 In all seriousness, you my friend are one of the most talented individuals I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in my 35 years of life. Thanks for sharing your talents.

Martin, the purpose of the squished cable in the angle grinder is strain relief. My guess is the issue was in the plug, but I recommend putting the strain relief back in because if you don't the cable might pull out of the internal switch, short, and in the worst case start a fire.

@liriosogno6762

3 жыл бұрын

Omg imagine a fire destroying the mmx...

@cjansson

3 жыл бұрын

If it's to squished too hard and it gets too hot, the wires melt together and short. However, could also just be that this will happen with any grinder (or any machine) that gets used beyond its duty cycle and load.

@williamcchinworth7367

3 жыл бұрын

@@cjansson It can't be "squished to hard". The inbuilt plastic crimp is sized to compress the insulation sufficiently to prevent cord pull out under normal wear and tear but not compromise the insulative properties of the jacketing.

@mfbfreak

3 жыл бұрын

If it shorts out, it will pop the breaker. Just one strand of copper is enough to start a low impedance arc which will trip the breaker in tenths of seconds. A short circuit does not cause fire, unless the electrical installation of the building is bad (or if you reclose a breaker with the fault still existing - that can pit contacts and eventually weld them together...) Intermittently arcing contacts to the load can cause fires, but in this case you'd immediately notice if the grinder is not running smoothly and most of the times the plastics are flame retardent. I agree there should be strain relief, otherwise it'll just work itself out of there quickly.

@AttilaAsztalos

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamcchinworth7367 I'm pretty fucking sure the inbuilt plastic crimp was never "sized" for anything, it has just been thrown in there to "looks fine" standards. Which may easily include "it's not fine at all you idiot" situations.

Six marbles failed, in a way that is completely harmless to the machine, and you know exactly why it happened. I see that as a total sucess.

@FrankyieFrank

3 жыл бұрын

Completely harmless? One day a marble will get stuck between moving mechanisms and jam up the machine. The only safety feature in this case is the fly wheel disengage mechanism which will probably put to much force on the jammed mechanism and locally destroy the machine. Failing marbles are always a risk for this machine as long as there are almost no safety features in place. Martin is going to find this out someday. So sadly enough failing marbles are not so harmless in my opinion :(

@jessveness

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrankyieFrank I think in actually practical usage he would be able to look for the errors and stop them before they happen. Well, that's what I think.

@Litl_Skitl

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrankyieFrank Yeah but the thing is that the cause of the fails is not a part that is going to snap of a desing flaw that needs some plastic surgery. It's just a interchangeable part (and too many marbles in my oppinion) that caused the overflow to, you know, overflow. If one of those stray marbles would cause something to break would absolutely suck, but compared to the other things he had to do this far, I would't even call this a fix. Just a bit of fine tuning.

@JBergmansson

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrankyieFrank Sure, I agree that it could cause a jam somewhere else, and I also agree that the machine needs more failsafes. But I still think the test was a roaring sucuess.

@rublie1426

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrankyieFrank I think what was meant is that only six marbles failed due to the test setup: If all instruments are playing, the line of marbles will never back up far enough to flood the stair elevator.

This man can absolutely take a punch in life with a smile. Amazing engineering, I love it!

I love watching your process and progress. And the floor! What a clean floor!

The tools in Wintergarten Wednesdays have more character development than most animes.

Martin: Uses google sheets to record test numbers like a reasonable human would Also Martin: ALT TABS TO A CALCULATOR TO DO THE COMPUTATION AND FILLS THEM IN Why are you doing this to us Martin? T_T

@minidreschi2

3 жыл бұрын

i think he enyojing it at this point :D

@FloydBunsen

3 жыл бұрын

*command tab

@SrAlvarenga

3 жыл бұрын

I was talking to my wife about it right now, she said (both engineers): "Geniuses and their crazes "... HAHAHAHAAHA

@rasenmaher7666

3 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this comment. I cringed so hard... what is seen, cannot be unseen.

@birawaich

3 жыл бұрын

I got the same feeling. Ignoring the greatest power of sheets.

Well, I must say, you executed that with precision, and brilliance! In all my years I have yet to see someone as focused as you are my friend. The way you were approached with a challenge, and excepted it, with enthusiasm and vigor. Yes, you cleaned that floor perfectly! Oh, and that music thingy, that’s cool too!

I really love when art and science join forces to make something amazing, and I don't know that there's a better example of it right now than the marble machine.

Can we stop for a moment to just appreciate how wicked cool that music is? I was listening to the snare drops trying to understand the rhythm of the two 16th note beats in succession and was delightfully surprised to see how it all worked in the song. Martin, you're a genius!

@jkobain

3 жыл бұрын

I concur!

Well Lordy, we discovered something Martin doesn’t know about- how to balance a car tire!!!!!

@Mikenperu

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I would have thought balancing the wheels to start with but less entertaining hah

@vwkrebs

3 жыл бұрын

Well ... now he knows 👍

@Elvalley

3 жыл бұрын

Or how to make use of spreadhseet formulas.

@pvic6959

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mikenperu how does one do that ?

I appear to have wasted my life not doing this sort of thing all the time. Literally amazing.

Don't know how this video popped up on my list, but I'm glad I watched it. Very engrossing about the flywheel, and how Martin tried to solve it. As a physicist, I appreciate that the centre of mass of the flywheel should be positioned at the centre of the axis of rotation, and making the wheel externally circular would probably not be the way to do it because the flywheel isn't homogenously uniform. Luckily he managed to add magnets to change the CM. Love his boyish enthusiasm for solving problems. Keep it up, Martin!

Martin, it's a good thing those marbles fell off at the end. A perfect test teaches you nothing. This test identified a failure mode. Loved the video as ever!

@lulu_42

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. This is a 30000-marbles worth failure, gotta enjoy !

As an engineer who has worked many years in “Quality and Reliability”, you cannot put the six in the FAILED column. They did not fail for what you were testing. They are a “new failure mechanism”. Analysis shows a design defect in the feed mechanism for not limiting the flow for such a small flow of marbles to the main mechanism.

@calvinthedestroyer

3 жыл бұрын

It's a FEATURE!

@cll1out

3 жыл бұрын

I think he counted the 6 in the count because he's not just counting marbles that escaped the machine where the marbles were let loose to hit the instruments. This was an overall whole-machine stress test (except for the unplayed portions) and those 6 lost marbles showed there was a specific set of conditions that need to be addressed.

@andrewsteinhaus8267

3 жыл бұрын

As a QE. Martin’s Definition of a defect was a marble on the floor. So it counts. The cause of the failure is different. If writing a FMEA it would have the same effect but different cause.

@yahhav345

3 жыл бұрын

@@calvinthedestroyer actually it is a feature when you think of it: it's a damage free fail-safe which allow for the continuation of the feeding loop, at the expense of losing x marbles from it. I really would have put a tray and let it stay were it for me: fixing it would probably make it worse if something happened

I can't wait to see this machine's beautiful song when the day comes!

You are not only a Genius but a ingenious entertainer!

this episode was so entertaining

@d1amond156

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

@user-ki8tl7xx5p

3 жыл бұрын

It’s the KZread, omg.

@Perska2411

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so what you wanna do here is a 360 reverse b-hop into the marble funnel and assert dominance over the machine.

@CashewChickenEnjoyer

3 жыл бұрын

are we gonna get a glitches and tricks with winter gatan's marble machine now

@BoxyBoy

3 жыл бұрын

Do a 360 off these marbles here, try not to slip on them..

After seeing this I now envision the angle grinder being part of the world tour. It goes like this: music reaches a crescendo, Martin throws a lever up top, angle grinder sends sparks across the stage while a large LED display behind him flashes "Pain is temporary."

@coder0xff

3 жыл бұрын

I love it

@jetstreamlynn3156

3 жыл бұрын

Glory is forever.

@IbakonFerba

3 жыл бұрын

I've said this before, but he absolutely has to write a pair of songs for the MMX of which one is called "Pain is temporary" and the other one "Glory is forever"

@onemynde8915

3 жыл бұрын

@@IbakonFerba With build clips of the MMX playing on the screen behind. Massive effort to develop, install and perfect, only to be cut off for the next, better, version.

@alybe1801

3 жыл бұрын

@@IbakonFerba The first song of the album: "Pain Is Temporary" The last one: _"Glory Is Forever"_

I honestly can't believe that I had enough control to watch the entire video and not fast forward to the part where you started the test. So from what I'm gathering, you actually did get 30,000 marbles to play before the 6 hit the floor? That's pretty damn amazing.

This is the most complex and demanding DIY one man project I've ever seen online, your dedication is outstanding, people like you are just so precious for all human race, never stop sharing your genius!!!!

Martin: builds worlds most impressive mechanical musical instrument Also Martin: uses a calculator instead of formulas to fill out his Excel spreadsheet Martin I will gladly give you a 30 min tutorial on how to do this properly

@miniraph9921

3 жыл бұрын

This

@KennethHartsell

3 жыл бұрын

I won't panic till he uses Word Perfect to do his taxes

@malakimphoros2164

3 жыл бұрын

Truer words have never been said

@muharremsuz

3 жыл бұрын

Lol right exel can calculate itself

@StefanBrodd

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought when I saw it too!

Not sure if lighting or actual baggy eyes. Martin, there is no marble machine without you. Take care of your body.

@bartender2561

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, please take care of yourself! There is only one you! :-) Maybe not always aim for the stars is also important. :-)

@ColossalZonko

3 жыл бұрын

no pain no gain

@dominic0305

3 жыл бұрын

@@ColossalZonko That's a common but dumb phrase (for some situations). It's easier to work more efficiently when you are comfortable.

@ZXL000

3 жыл бұрын

Please sleep sir. Recharge.

@ColossalZonko

3 жыл бұрын

@@dominic0305 I agree, was just goofing ofcourse. health comes first

This guy is the master of optimism. You can learn a lot from this guy. Wow

You are using your brain and life in the exactly the way you where ment to. FREE. I love to hear you talk, the freedom in your voice is remarkable. We all have stressful lives your no exemption. But your contribution to our world will live on forever. You are so appreciated, it makes my heart joyfully for you. Be well and never stop

I am genuinely concerned with such levels of precision being needed that this will not be repeatable when transported without significant setup time

@InformatrIIcks

3 жыл бұрын

You know, there is always some setup time before a show ... Installation, tuning, tests, and so on ... I'm sure that, with all the works done now, it will cut down on setup time and will be manageable in the end !

@isakefternamn

3 жыл бұрын

Also, having such a high reliability in perfect conditions gives some headroom for errors when the setup is suboptimal on tour. As many have pointed out it's not the end of the world if some marbles escapes during a concert. If 1/10'000 escapes in the studio it might be 10/10'000 on stage with limited setup time. But it makes sense to get it as good as possible now.

@bastienmassion299

3 жыл бұрын

At least it could be perfect for studio recordings when je will have the time to adjust everything

@JamesMossR33

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, setting the machine up to be exactly the same each time might be quite the task. I can see different venues having different temperatures and humidity, the machine may also need to acclimatise. I don't know how this would affect the machine working but I'd probably want to do some long running tests in different environmental conditions.

@hyfy-tr2jy

3 жыл бұрын

@@isakefternamn it isn't the fact that the machine has high reliability in studio conditions that worries me...it is the fact that it needs high reliability to work properly. As we have seen already, minuscule deviations from "perfect" cause a cascade of issues. It is this very narrow "operational window" that gives me anxiety.

At some point, the marbles that miss are going to be caused by a slight breeze coming through the window, and Martin will engineer something to counteract it

@pjaxy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. It will be a mechanical fan attached to the planetary gearbox that produces a breeze in the opposite direction of the window.

@connormcinerney7503

3 жыл бұрын

Quite simple, actually. Just contain the MMX within a vacuum so there's no air to make a breeze! Thinking about it, that might also solve any humidity or temperature change problems. Huh

@alvardo3000

3 жыл бұрын

Connor McInerney there will be no sound in a vacuum tho, having the MMX in its own controlled micro climate might be the go though.

@connormcinerney7503

3 жыл бұрын

@@alvardo3000 That actually wouldn’t be a problem for most of the MMX’s instruments. The bass has pickups, so it doesn’t need air, and Martin mentioned someone’s suggestion to use magnets with the vibraphone bars which essentially gives them pickups as well. The kick uses a contact mic, so again, no air needed. The main issues would be the snare, hi-hat and cymbal, because those don’t use pickups or contact mics. You can still give them all contact mics, but they likely won’t sound the same or as good. So if you didn’t care about getting a perfect sound, a vacuum wouldn’t be an issue

@lilyunderscore9568

3 жыл бұрын

But... making a vaccum that big is practically impossible, especially on the go in the world tour. He also would need to stand inside of thr vaccum to operate the machine, killing him due to lack of oxygen.

Music is art, is math, is engineering, is art , is music...breath, relax, laugh, cry, shout, learn. What a marvelous journey/exploration/experiment. It gives me hope for humanity that we can be this close to the Creator and kissed by humility enough to see difference. Shalom!

What can you say about a guy creating a machine and his quest for perfecting movement... AMAZING!!! Unique way to show love for music.

You are showing the dirty little secret of engineers: Trial and error engineering. Thank you so much for sharing both your failures and successes.

@Ryan6.022

3 жыл бұрын

The old adage "one physical test is worth a thousand expert opinions"

@NotAGoodUsername360

3 жыл бұрын

That is why physicists and mathematicians are not engineers

@GoCoyote

3 жыл бұрын

@@dbptwg I agree with your sentiment. We mostly see the successful final product, not the failures that formed the foundations of that success.

@GoCoyote

3 жыл бұрын

@@NotAGoodUsername360 I am curious to hear why?

@Tomyironmane

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan6.022 In school, I caught flak because I always figured "Data is bullshit until you actually go do the test."

Martin took 500 psychic damage from the sound of those 6 fallen marbles

Looks like a mechanically-operated time machine that runs on marbles! Great simple music that can relax your mind...

Your magnet solution for the flywheel is GENIUS! Well done!

"I'm going to improvise some music to this." *Proceeds to make a masterpiece of song*

@Mythrael1

3 жыл бұрын

I rewinded and listened to that part multiple times , especially when the guitar comes in at 23:48, beautiful, I needed that

@CYBORGV11

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mythrael1 hell yeah whats it called tho? did he ever upload it separately? i need this

@Nevict

3 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of space, aliens and advanced technology.

@Mythrael1

3 жыл бұрын

@@CYBORGV11 That's a question to Martin :) I think he just jam-improvised and picked what worked, sounded good and polished it

@Mythrael1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nevict Or nostalgia inducing old russian/soviet movies, due to the xylophone

“I am angling the angle grinder”... now this is the quality content I came here for

@JanTuts

3 жыл бұрын

In other words, an angled grinder

A+ for effort on balancing the flywheel with the angle grinder. I actually liked the song "Angle Grinder". Maybe a future music machine could involve a.more industrial sound featuring tools and equipment

Dante can't imagine the depths of insanity you must have created for yourself creating this instrument/machine. I truly applaud your resilience, persistence and commitment, it's awe inspiring.

"This is my best idea ever" Almost sets his house on fire

Hi Martin, some thoughts from me: -I think the missing thunnel hit occurs when you have a fast double bounce on the snare, one marble is landing on the snare when the drum skin is moving up from the previous marble. It is like beein two people jumping on a trampoline, with a perfect pace you will get an extra high bounce caused by the other guy. You should therefor test the dropping with all different intervals you can set on the programming wheel. Maybe this phenomen is even worse on the vibrophone?? -A belt tensioner shouls always sit on the slack side of the belt, look at a mountain bike chain as a example. You will loose efficiency by having one on the active side and therefore add drag in your system. And if you weld it onto your frame, make sure the tensioner is ajustable with a sliding slot!! Another cool way to solve a tensioner is a "ring tensioner" google it, would look realy cool on your machine. -I see a big risk with the gates. There is a long leverarm down to the gate from the actuator. Even if you make this gate work fine, you will have problem when you start install the other gates bechause you dont have the same height between the actuator and the gates. Therefore the leverarm will have different length and that will affect the traveling lenght of the gate opener, also affect the pull out force on the gate opener. To solve this you need to redesign the gate. Instead of having a lever arm you should having a vertical pull from the actuator and a link in the gate to pull it out. That would make equal force and traveling lenght independent of the height between the actuator and the gate. Thanks for you amazing work so far an to share it to us! /Johannes

@GoelWCS

3 жыл бұрын

I never heard about a ring tensionner, very smart idea, but it works with chain gears only I guess...

@8O0I0O8

3 жыл бұрын

From Johannes to Johannes, so much this! Especially the last point. My mechanical engineering heart hurts more and more because I feel like martin it slowly but surely digging a whole he can't get out of. I sincierly hope he can fix the flaws and get over the whole reliability thing.

@sherlock_norris

3 жыл бұрын

The "bouncing problem" you describe can maybe also be adressed by tuning the snare to a different note, so the vibrations of the drumskin have a lower probability of positively interfering with double marble drops

@454Casull

3 жыл бұрын

@@GoelWCS A flanged sheave would work too for a flat belt/timing belt, probably.

@mattsmith1849

3 жыл бұрын

sherlock_norris I concur totally, as a drummer I know the different actions of bounce on different tensions on the drum head, my first thought on the last video was, the double bounce on the snare is causing the miss, this is the only variable change from the video where there was no misses

Statisticians have a formal way of denoting reliability based on sample size. Seeing the flywheel become balanced is so beautiful.

A man determined to not lose his marbles, pushes himself perilously close to doing so.

"So how do you tune it?" "It's... complicated"

@sooooooot

3 жыл бұрын

takes 3 days to tune lol

@conradkai9705

3 жыл бұрын

oh ya know, 6 magnets

@martinbras11

3 жыл бұрын

@@conradkai9705 It's actually the same concept behind car wheels. Basically none are perfect, which is why mechanics add balancing blocks on the inside or outside of the rims to stop them from shaking

@pyrojkl

3 жыл бұрын

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@commiezombie2477

3 жыл бұрын

Angle grinders and sand paper 😂😂😂😂

MMX: does a sub-millimeter wobble Martin: break out angle grinder Me: oh god oh no not again Magnet: fixes wobble

@riddixdan5572

3 жыл бұрын

Wheels on cars are similarly balanced if I'm not mistaken

@nilswegner2881

3 жыл бұрын

@@riddixdan5572 yup, in Cars they use small lead weights to Balance the wheels. whenever you get a new tyre, the weights have to bei adjusted so the wheel is balanced

@Ziogref

3 жыл бұрын

@@nilswegner2881 Came here to say the same thing. Basically the same as car wheels.

@qwasdninja

3 жыл бұрын

Chances are that the magnets wouldn't have been nearly enough if he didn't remove all that unbalanced mass before putting them on.

@MrBluePoochyena

3 жыл бұрын

@@qwasdninja this^

I came here to see a clean floor, and was not disappointed.

It’s insane seeing how far this machine has come. Well done.

For your final test, you should play your song made by your first marble machine, to honor how you got to the day the machine is finished

@310yannick

3 жыл бұрын

That would be epic.

In this episode: martin discovers how flywheels are actually balanced

I have to say that you are certainly an amazing musician and have seen you become a very very very good ‘unofficial official’ engineer. You will certainly be remembered in history. And we haven’t even seen the full potential of this amazing art machine instrument yet 🤩

To be honest this brings all of my engineering fantasies to life and it's just amazing.

💥💥IMPORTANT SNARE INFO💥💥(coming from concert band percussionist) - I’m not sure if you’re aware of this already but the snare is similar to the vibraphone in the sense that you almost NEVER hit a snare dead center as it gives you a much more dead/less crisp sound and is know as.....THE DEAD SPOT (optimal striking position is usually a few inches from the center). I would be extremely intrigued to see you do some basic tests regarding drop placement on the snare as I think this could greatly improve your sound quality in performances but especially recordings. I hate to be that guy but I feel that this is important since snare is in nearly everything. To anyone who reads, please like and reply to this so he can take this into consideration!! Much love Martin❤️

@jimplonotar1012

3 жыл бұрын

Been thinking the same thing for a while🙄

@ellieban

3 жыл бұрын

+1

@CupcakePump

3 жыл бұрын

I have absolutely no idea if what you're saying is true, but I guess it is, so I'm commenting this hoping that Martin will read this :)

@Jibbert

3 жыл бұрын

Jibbert

@Soufriere84

3 жыл бұрын

@@CupcakePump I'm also a percussionist and can confirm it's definitely true. It's not as big a deal with a snare drum as it is with a tympani (those you _never_ hit 'em dead center because it won't resonate at all), but the sweet spot is almost always about halfway between the center and the rim. Compare that to mallet instruments where you DO want to strike near the center because that's how their resonance works.

Martin: uses an excel sheet to write down diagnostics Also Martin: uses calculator to do Maths on the data in the sheet xD

@thegreatpeon

3 жыл бұрын

Not going to lie, it hurt a little bit to watch him do that. If you're going to be using a spreadsheet, then take advantage of the features of the tool you're using to do all the math for you rather than doing the math by hand and potentially introducing additional error into the data by mis-transferring the values.

@joeshmoe7967

3 жыл бұрын

math

@dahobdahob

3 жыл бұрын

@@zeushi Having localized point of sale software to Germany, I can confirm: radixes (radii?) and time formats suck

@NFSHeld

3 жыл бұрын

​@@zeushi German here. In Germany, we use comma as decimal separator and the point as group separator for thousands. In Switzerland, they say "comma" but use both point or comma. They also use single quotes or spaces for thousands. In India, they use a decimal point but don't group into thousands, but thousand and then hundreds. So these are different notations: English: 123,456,789.1011 German: 123.456.789,1011 Switzerland: 123'456'789,1011 or 123 456 789.1011 India: 12,34,56,789.1011 The German format also introduced a problem for CSV files, since comma in numbers are important and not just for convenience in reading, like the commas in English number formatting. Therefore, the "German" CSV files use semicolon as separator. I think, the world should finally come together and use the metric system with English number formats.

@utha2665

3 жыл бұрын

@@NFSHeld Also, in Australia we use 123 456 789.1011, prior to 1970 it was separated by commas instead of spaces. The radix, however, has always been a period, or full stop if you're Australian. extranet.education.unimelb.edu.au/SME/TNMY/Decimals/Decimals/backinfo/overseas.htm docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/index.html

I really love watching this journey.

would be cool to see this in some kind of laser light show with like, multi colored marbles

Everything about this. The design, trial, error, solutions. It's absolutely beautiful and I am so happy that you are able to share this with us. Thank you so much!

@Happymz

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Martin takes out the angle grinder to balance the Flywheel: Me (working for a reasonable time in a balancing company) - thats not how balancing works. I suggest using magnets. 2mins later: Martin uses magnets.

@MrAntimonty

3 жыл бұрын

The funny part about this: It wasn't 2 minutes, but 3 days for Martin.

@dmdeemer

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about the little clips they put on tire rims to balance new tires.

@cdanielh128

3 жыл бұрын

@@dmdeemer Same here. I just noticed my tires getting out of balance yesterday. Today I see this and I see the grinder and cringe. Then he fixes it proper and I sigh in relief.

@luclafond992

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It didnt matter if the flywheel was true, it mattered that it was balanced. He was equating true with balanced. At the machine shop they true flywheels so the clutch mates, and then balance them so they rotate smooth and dont shudder.

@georgefricke5622

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrAntimonty i

im a mechanical engineer and i find this video mesmerizing, can remember why i got here, but i acctually stayed because i find it too interesting to watch, and i would love to work on something like this one day

@Jono.

3 жыл бұрын

Same here - MechE I love this stuff.

Martin, episode #81: "It's just endless. Episode 81, I could never have guessed..." Martin, episode #148: "I'm over the moon happy with being 0.155% completed on the Marble Machine X"

This man has the best hobby ever. This machine will be worth an unimaginable amount of money when it’s done.

@KBXband

3 жыл бұрын

Itll all be labor costs

@ndadash

3 жыл бұрын

There's no end for this lol,, how can it be done, this is infinity²+1

I feel like martin needs a crash course in statistics. Also, the simultaneous use of spreadsheets to display information, while using a pocket calculator to calculate things makes me crazy.

@NicolaiSyvertsen

3 жыл бұрын

Spreadsheets are just boxes to put text and numbers in don't you know...

@oOSpecialProskillsOo

3 жыл бұрын

THIS. Someone teach the man how to calculate with copyable equations

@nadadada3938

3 жыл бұрын

But I like doing my math in paper

@polloymedio

3 жыл бұрын

My head was exploding on why he didn't use excel to do the formulas. Martin if you're reading this and need help with Excel/Google Sheets, hit me up! I'll be glad to help out :)

@LamanodeManolo

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my mom who does the exact same. A spreadsheet is just a handy table to out numbers in, all calculations are done on her physical calculator. No adjustability whatsoever. W I C K E D

Mr Winter , This was a very fun video thank you for sharing . just so creative !