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Eric Wiest
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 18 ก.ค. 2007
Wiest Marble Machine #4. Completed!
This marble machine is lit with color changing LED lights (it 's not your monitor) and uses Eryone tri-color Silk PLA Silk in Red,Yellow and Blue for the filament. This is my fourth marble machine. The first was made of wood long ago, and has since been destroyed (accidentally). The remaining Machines have been designed on a computer using Fusion 360, then printed with a 3d printer. I am currently using a Bambu X1-C printer. (highly recommended)
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Marble Machine #4. Loop lap track ending on Squiggle track
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This is the 8th video showing my progress on the making of Wiest Marble machine #4. It's almost done, one more video for this Machine. Just need to add some fine tuning bits to guide misbehaving ball bearings.
Marble machine #4 See saw track ending with Funnel Shute.
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Video #9 of the series, the making of Marble machine #4.
Wiest Marble Machine #4 Hairpin turn track
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This is the 8th video in the series showing my progress on the making of Wiest Marble machine #4. I've designed all parts using Fusion 360 and printed on a Bambu Labs X1-C using tri-colored pla filament.
Wiest Marble machine #4 - Rollercoaster track ending with Teardrop track
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This is the 7th video showing my progress on the making of Wiest Marble machine #4. I've designed all parts using Fusion 360 and printed on a Bambu Labs X1-C using tri-colored pla filament.
Wiest Marble machine #4 - Spiral track ending on Zigzag track
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This is The 6th update on my progress making Marble machine #4. I have designed all parts using Fusion 360 and am printing them with a Bambu X1-C.
Wiest Marble machine #4 - Wobble track
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This is the 5th feature too be added to the #4 Marble Machine. I wanted something a little different than regular straight track. All features are designed using Fusion 360.
Wiest Marble Macine #4, Loop-de-loop
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This is the 4th video in a series, showing my progress in creating my 4th Marble machine. This is the second Loop-De-Loop I've created. The first one had difficulty keeping the bearing in the track. With this design, I've used a track that the bearing can't fall out of. It also has a higher velocity to make sure the bearing makes it all the way to the end.
Switch track addition
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I decided I wanted more routes down for adding features, so here are 2 additional switch tracks for a total or 6 routes now.
Wiest Marble Machine #4 Switching track
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Once the lifting mechanism was finished, it was time to divert the bearings off into 4 different locations. Now I have to figure out what to do with the 4 different runs.
Lift Mechanism for Marble Machine #4
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New design for a lift mechanism, still using magnets though. This one is the second prototype. The first one had too much play in the gears resulting in them not being able to spin for the entire height. For this one I made the recess behind the gear for the lock nut tighter, and superglued the nuts in place. I don't think it would work if I had made it taller
Wiest Marble machine #3
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This is the 3rd marble machine I've made (second 3D printed). The goals for this one were to have zero falling (dropped) bearings, to use a single loop of ball chain (cutting and splicing them isn't fun), and to add a musical component (my wife's request). All goals successfully achieved. Became very frustrated with poor print quality and was going to give up 75% through. I decided to buy a Bam...
3D printed Marble machine #3 Ball gate mechanism
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Making progress on Marble roll #3. This video shows the working of what I refer to as the "Ball gate" I learned on my previous marble roll that the Neodymium magnets picking up the ball bearings, would pick up 2, then drop 1. This device separates the balls to be picked up from the balls in the queue. Notice how both the cam and the connecting rod have various holes. I wasn't sure what dimensio...
Practicing gates with the new racing drone...wait for it...
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Practicing gates with the new racing drone...wait for it...
👍really cool (maybe a lil' bit noisy...!😉)
Really very nice!!!! Im a fan of this "toys", I could call tghis art. Any chance you can share your thingiverse link or share the files?
Amazing
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. th-cam.com/video/-2FJOyO_ErA/w-d-xo.html I would appreciate your opinion, sir.
That’s awesome 😎
So cool!
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
This is amazing! I find the lighting to be gaudy and distracting. But the mechanism is genius. A real work of art.
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.
this is awesome! I subscribed :). you gotta let us know when the files are available!
THIS IS AMAZING!!! *****
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.
I’m partially retired, bust my butt in the summer, then hunker down for the New Hampshire winter.
@@ebwpob53One helluva way of spending retirement. Good things, keep up!
Awesome!
It looks absolutely amazing. Are you going to release the parts? Thank you for your great work.
Which printer are you using? Are you using CAD like Fusion 360 to design your tracks
Bambu X1-C printer and yes, Fusion 360.
I bet there were times that the 3d track was super hard for a 3d printer to print
The printing was usually trouble free, it's the cleaning off the supports that was a pain.
Now this is what I am talking about!! much better than when I was going to try and make this out of copper and glass marbles on a steel frame...
what program are you using to help you design these?
How far did you get on copper design?
100% but had to sell it when I moved from Japan to the US
Well done! The lighting is a nice touch too
Thank you!
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.
Two words ... Martin Molin.
Oh man, this reminds me of when I got the Chaos marble run set for a birthday as a kid; very fun!
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?
Certainly. My email is ebwpob53@gmail.com Thank you for your interest.
Is this for sale??
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.....$$$
Really nice work.
Thank you, I appreciate it.👍
Am I able to print this myself?
Once I'm done I'll work on uploading to Thingiverse.
Great progress! I'd love to see about how you build the enclosures for your machines and where you source the material from.
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.
Is the stuttering at the top elevator caused by the cumulative backlash? it's very interesting to watch it become more and more distinct.
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.
I'm watching every single video and just biding my time and hoping you decide to sell the files!! Either way, it looks incredible!
Super cool
Looking great! And the individual sections are very creative. 👍🏽
Thank you! I appreciate it.
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
Thank you. I'll Give the file uploading another try. I have put some from another Marble machine on Thingiverse, but find it's a lot of work.
These creations are incredible! Please tell me you are going to sell the STL files?
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
maybe coat the track with a light coat of rubber to insulate the sound a bit
so cool!!
Thank you.
neat
Love the lifting mechanism!
Thank you. I appreciate the thought.
Yeah, it was pretty sweet. I didn't even realize how intricate it was at first!
wow
wow, please tell me you have the stls files for this
Congratulations! Will you share or sell the stl files?
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Looks great! However it looks like you’ll only need to smooth out the inside of the track to help the marbles roll down the track.
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.
Incredible! That lifting mechanism with the magnets is extremely clever. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much!
It's sad that there's no file to produce this work.
Hello. I was moved by your work and decided to buy a 3D printer.
Thank you for your kind words. I hope you enjoy your new hobby.
I would like to purchase the stl files aswell if that’s possible
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.
Nice design choice with the 'chain'
Looking forward to seeing this in full action! I really enjoyed your machine from 9 months ago!