The electromagnetic shelf was by far my favorite. It reminds me of magic tricks, where something doesn't work for others, but when you do it, after turning on the hidden secret, it suddenly works and is mesmerizing.
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I used to have a rolling ball clock like that back in the 80's, I remember putting all the parts together. It was all plastic, and was very satisfying to watch all the levels empty twice a day.
Impossible to choose. The "hockey" playing machine is probably the most technically accomplished but isn't as visually pleasing to me, probably because the engineering complexity isn't on display for all to appreciate. I think the clock is probably the coolest from a mechanical engineering point of view but the one that throws a ball and catches it on the other side is also pretty damn amazing. Well done all round, they are all fantastic 😁
Now, do a video where you run all these continously side by side and make it a competition to see which one last the longest without any errors or dropped marbels! Would be interesting to see which mechanism is the most rubust.
@@frostwing1899 I feel like that's the one that more easily would fail since any small perturbance could hinder it since the movement is so subtle, I feel it's the one that has the worst error control (for example, the one where the ball is launched up has quite a big funnel to control for errors), but that's only my scared ass, so idk
This is the first engineering channel I’ve ever subscribed to. I’m a musician and I’m captivated by the concept of the design or the actual product being “satisfying”. I wasn’t very good at math in school but I always was impressed when the math professor would say that one proof is more elegant than another. Looking forward to looking through your past videos and seeing what you come up with next.
I wrote it already under the clock video, I really think your machines belong into a museum. They are mesmerizin to watch and your stylization of the machines is always so extremely elegant. IMO you are one of the top artists on this planet
I just recently got a 3d printer so I'm going to try to make something that reminds me of your "Raise the Roof Hands" I will use the mechanism in the bouncing ball machine to rotate hands offset from each other and make a "jazz hand" machine to mount on my wall. That way whenever a project is successful, I can jazz hands to victory!
We had a similar ball clock when I was a kid, but with small plastic golf balls. It was super cool, but my mom shut it down because it was way too loud (especially at 1 AM)!
Brilliant, Jay. You're one of the most creative and competent engineers on TH-cam. Such a pleasure to watch your videos. Any one of them could be an entire video on its own, yet you squeeze nine into a single presentation. Great work.
9:22 the ball jumped the track and landed in the rack mechanism. I'm sure its already a well known problem you faced throughout every one of your builds and you have done a great job in overcoming Murphy's law in all of your creations, its still nice to see that with a little bit of determination a marble will always find a away off the track when the camera is rolling. I'm a huge fan of mechanical contraptions and your builds remind me that there is always a simple solution to even the most creative of tasks. Keep up the good work!
What i like the most is the attention to the detail , every parts are not only made to do the job but are desing to look industrial , to look good to look like a finish product that is what differentiate you and not to forget your humor !
i tried to make that ball clock since i was 5.. but the hardest part is to make a gear and timing it perfectly to clock rotation. it really mesmerizing see a mechanical part working and at the same time functional like telling time..😍😍😍
0:04 just got a nostalgic hit from something I had long forgotten. That marble clock. When I was 8yrs old in 1988 😮 🎉 I was spending the summer in Tennessee with my Uncle and he had a friend who coached at Tennessee Tech, Scott. Scott needed help cleaning out his garage from all his random stuff mostly football stuff but some old electronics. He told me if I helped clean up I could pick one thing and that thing was a dusty marble clock. While it was black the mechanism is unforgettable this is that design. Wild. For those wondering In hind-site I should have picked the mini black and white tv. But I’m a sucker for shiny stuff and moving marbles meet that qualification.
My fave was the 'Perpetual Motion' Machine. Your Videos were the reason I got into engineering. Thanks for inspiring future engineers, like myself and many others!
Yo...that marble clock is just GENIUS 😨. So simple yet elegant and amazing 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I always love seeing what you come up with 🙏🏼 these all were so great and id love to make a couple for myself
I have a clock here I bought about 20 years ago that uses the same mechanism as yours. I think your version is a little more robust though... this one when running too long starts to drop ball bearings until there aren't enough left in the system to continue. (fortunately it sits inside a clear cover that retains them). As such it sits idle on my shelf. Might have to build this version to see if I can let it run. Great video!
For any ball bounce project, the harder the base or steel plate the more energy it will return to the ball during it's bounce. Blacksmiths use ball bounce to determine if the surface of an anvil is cast iron or tool steel. A really hard anvil can provide an very satisfying long ball bounce. Thank you posting all this.
I remember seeing a commercially-produced version of that clock at a friend's house back in the 80s. It's such a neat design and I love seeing it come back - and also an explanation of how it works, because as a kid I was never allowed to play with it.
Love these. My favourite is actually the wave shelf which uses electromagnets. But, the engineering skill in all of these is really impressive. The penultimate design got me thinking. Each of the four steel balls have many parameters acting upon them which makes each of them bounce uniquely. Release point, friction, mass and even the air pressure inside each tube affecting their drop. Before the advent of modern manufacturing techniques for steel balls, steel "shot" was made in a fascinating way. Molten steel was dripped down a large "chimney" called a Shot Tower. On it's way down, it would form into a sphere - solidifying on it's way to the bottom.
Seeing you do all these crazy things mechanically makes me so thankful I work in software. God, could you imagine trying to design and debug all that stuff without modern computer tools?
I subbed cuz of your shorts, but you, sir, with this video get an all notifs on, bell icon click with immediate viewing of every forthcoming video hereon I've seen a LOT of simultaneously satisfying and crazy things in my life, but I can safely say almost nothing ever, and definitely nothing in the last few years has blown my mind quite like some of these machines have. Not the principles behind them of course, but the execution makes it look as simple as possible while being supremely satisfying.
There is a science museum in Winterthur Switzerland called Technorama. Feels like all these designes would feel right at home there. Also i want that clock!
The clocks are always my favourite. I am so happy I found your channel. One of the only that I click the like button before I even start watching. Even the ad portions are entertaining and informative.
All very nice. Could watch them for a long time. One suggestion: put a curve or angle on the striking face of the hockey stick so that it doesn't hit the ball exactly the same way on every pass. You could have a different profile on each side, and it would end up with more play across the short axis of the rink.
As someone who uses plenty of solid works as an engineering student, although I can’t speak for the price since it’s included as part of my tuition, the quality of solid works is quite high and is very handy for modelling concepts.
In the second to last contraption: Instead of having the balls fall on a dull metal plate, have the balls fall on something similar to a xylophone tone block. You could even move the block seperately so different tones are elicited in different cyclels of the balls falling. Fun video overall
My guy just made 9 machines in one video. Meanwhile, Wintergatan is stuck measuring how many atoms each marble contains for the last 4 and a half years...
So many amazing machines! I’m really impressed. I think the clock was my favorite. I’d make or buy that (with a tweak or two for visual appeal) Great work!! ~Trav
Well somehow youtube wanted me to see this "Excellent artwork" full of satisfactory. The combination of gears, mechanical structures and motors was a fantastic trio. Your builds are truly aspiring to all and amazing the same way. Your channel itslef suggests your work. Keep it up.
Amazing designs. I think the simplicity and silence of the perpetual motion one is my favorite. The soccer playing robot is a great challenge and mix of engineering, programming and electronics. But they are all great designs.
i think that first one is a perfect metaphor for the fractal-like nature of our universe and what happens over time with entropy in a system. which, if you manage to see the order in chaos-actually ends up looking like emergence.
Super cool. The rolling ball clock was invented by Harley Mayenschein in the 1970s and I would have merely referenced it and skipped it. The others are amazing. I would have loved the horiz perpetual motion one if you could make the ball hollow and using internal magnets, roll over the edge and sort of continue on the underside of the sculpture, defying gravity. Kind of like a BB8 droid.
Number 7 made my jaw drop - I thought the bounce would be much less predictable from such a height, so it fascinated me. Number 5 might make me slightly less terrible at time-math XD the tracks are very visually pleasing as well. Wish I'd had something like that as a kid!
Im a mechantronics engiinering student and I loved this video. It inspires me to learn and I cant wait until I can make cool projects too. I hope you continue making videos
You need to get up with Nile Red to get one of his atomic trampolines for your #7 and #2 machines.
Yes
Nthat is what i wanted to say😢
lmao
exactly
Why was I thinking the exact same thing?
The electromagnetic shelf was by far my favorite.
It reminds me of magic tricks, where something doesn't work for others, but when you do it, after turning on the hidden secret, it suddenly works and is mesmerizing.
Haha never thought to trick my friends with it!
@@Engineezy You DEFINITELY should!!!
@@Engineezy Would you make one on a commission? Or sell the plans?
Loved the shelf as well. @Engineezy would you consider making the model/plans available?
Also interested in buying the plans. Would be awesome if you can provide these for sale at your site.
I think the "perpetual" motion machine was my favourite, it's so elegant
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what? Crypto?
0:10 when you said "10 machines" I assumed you'd have a secret one at the end
that would have been satisfying
I suppose you could count the second version of #8 as the tenth?
Welll… I think it is counted at one, just different versions
#10: your mom
Love the elegance of the perpetual motion shelf
Thanks King 👊
Comment from veritasium is crazy
How much for that? 😊
I am 100% making that clock.
I'm 100% watching your videos
Let me know how it goes!
I used to have a rolling ball clock like that back in the 80's, I remember putting all the parts together. It was all plastic, and was very satisfying to watch all the levels empty twice a day.
rolling ball clocks are mesmerizing to watch, but incredibly noisy. I had one and it was hard being in the same room with it.
@@lunarulsounds like a design challenge
Impossible to choose.
The "hockey" playing machine is probably the most technically accomplished but isn't as visually pleasing to me, probably because the engineering complexity isn't on display for all to appreciate. I think the clock is probably the coolest from a mechanical engineering point of view but the one that throws a ball and catches it on the other side is also pretty damn amazing.
Well done all round, they are all fantastic 😁
I have to say I have a soft-spot for the purely mechanical designs myself. I love them all and would be mesmerized for hours watching them.
The clock design is genius
Tim under 2h
It's been around for years.
I had one when I was a kid. Watching this brought back memories of the exact sounds the ball bearings made as the time changed.
@@alaeriia01 decades
so many marble clocks recently hehe
14:40 Giving a robot hand-eye coordination has two challenges. One: robots don't have hands. Two: robots don't have eyes, either!
Very true
Yes...
2:45 In sync with the music, this is SO satisfying
😮
Now, do a video where you run all these continously side by side and make it a competition to see which one last the longest without any errors or dropped marbels!
Would be interesting to see which mechanism is the most rubust.
i feel like the “perpetual motion” machine would win that since its whole gimmick is to look like it lasts forever
@@frostwing1899 I feel like that's the one that more easily would fail since any small perturbance could hinder it since the movement is so subtle, I feel it's the one that has the worst error control (for example, the one where the ball is launched up has quite a big funnel to control for errors), but that's only my scared ass, so idk
14:32 yeah I was just about to say…😂
Imagine going back in time to see Leonardo DaVinci with a laptop that has Solidworks on it.
Would be next level
Pretty sure the guy was able to do it in his head
This is the first engineering channel I’ve ever subscribed to. I’m a musician and I’m captivated by the concept of the design or the actual product being “satisfying”. I wasn’t very good at math in school but I always was impressed when the math professor would say that one proof is more elegant than another. Looking forward to looking through your past videos and seeing what you come up with next.
I love the clock. Their all awesome but the clock takes it for me.
Are you ever getting around to building ball satisfying machines instead of the other way around?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@MultiRRR123 - women are more fun for that ;)
Machines satisfying balls?
ball satisfying machine is what I call your mom ;)
@@CyclopsRat💀
I wrote it already under the clock video, I really think your machines belong into a museum. They are mesmerizin to watch and your stylization of the machines is always so extremely elegant. IMO you are one of the top artists on this planet
3:27 how did bro get an atomic trampoline
I think it’s just a normal trampoline
6:32 never mind
NileRed
it's just a steel plate
I just recently got a 3d printer so I'm going to try to make something that reminds me of your "Raise the Roof Hands" I will use the mechanism in the bouncing ball machine to rotate hands offset from each other and make a "jazz hand" machine to mount on my wall. That way whenever a project is successful, I can jazz hands to victory!
the clock is definitely my favourite, its functional, the design is so satisfying to me, and all the tracks and marbles makes it mega satisfying.
We had a similar ball clock when I was a kid, but with small plastic golf balls. It was super cool, but my mom shut it down because it was way too loud (especially at 1 AM)!
Brilliant, Jay. You're one of the most creative and competent engineers on TH-cam. Such a pleasure to watch your videos. Any one of them could be an entire video on its own, yet you squeeze nine into a single presentation. Great work.
I just finished finals and I need this now
3:07 I like these because you can repeat it infinitely
Not exactly infinite.
9:22 the ball jumped the track and landed in the rack mechanism. I'm sure its already a well known problem you faced throughout every one of your builds and you have done a great job in overcoming Murphy's law in all of your creations, its still nice to see that with a little bit of determination a marble will always find a away off the track when the camera is rolling. I'm a huge fan of mechanical contraptions and your builds remind me that there is always a simple solution to even the most creative of tasks. Keep up the good work!
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#2 don't let Wintergatan see it. He'll find a way to make a musical instrument out of it.
Lmao
He will spend a decade or so building the machine, restarting several time, and abandoning it.
Please provide more details about number 1, I am super interested in the code and specific components used. Number 1 deserves its own video!
What i like the most is the attention to the detail ,
every parts are not only made to do the job
but are desing to look industrial , to look good
to look like a finish product
that is what differentiate you
and not to forget your humor !
Designer Jay has his hand in everything, drives engineer Jay crazy
2:41 I love how to ball rolls in time with the background music!
2:30 the ball is on the beat!!! 😍😍😍Makes it even more satisfying
i tried to make that ball clock since i was 5.. but the hardest part is to make a gear and timing it perfectly to clock rotation. it really mesmerizing see a mechanical part working and at the same time functional like telling time..😍😍😍
Awesome! My favourite one was definitely the magnetic shelf (3). I could stare at it for hours lol. I'd love to have one of those for my living room.
Imagine what a nightmare it would be to have all of theese machines running at the same time at all times.
0:04 just got a nostalgic hit from something I had long forgotten. That marble clock. When I was 8yrs old in 1988 😮 🎉 I was spending the summer in Tennessee with my Uncle and he had a friend who coached at Tennessee Tech, Scott. Scott needed help cleaning out his garage from all his random stuff mostly football stuff but some old electronics. He told me if I helped clean up I could pick one thing and that thing was a dusty marble clock. While it was black the mechanism is unforgettable this is that design. Wild. For those wondering In hind-site I should have picked the mini black and white tv. But I’m a sucker for shiny stuff and moving marbles meet that qualification.
They're all so cool and amazing, I cannot choose one.
2:37 ok so this is satisfying!
My fave was the 'Perpetual Motion' Machine. Your Videos were the reason I got into engineering. Thanks for inspiring future engineers, like myself and many others!
Yo...that marble clock is just GENIUS 😨. So simple yet elegant and amazing 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I always love seeing what you come up with 🙏🏼 these all were so great and id love to make a couple for myself
For me number 6 was tops.
Yes I am going to look at making the clock too!
2:34 nice beat,it even matched with the track moving
I have a clock here I bought about 20 years ago that uses the same mechanism as yours. I think your version is a little more robust though... this one when running too long starts to drop ball bearings until there aren't enough left in the system to continue. (fortunately it sits inside a clear cover that retains them). As such it sits idle on my shelf. Might have to build this version to see if I can let it run. Great video!
I love how mechanical engineers, such as myself we make the craziest shit by making things overcomplicated with moving parts
"Just because you can doesn't mean you sh..."
"On it! Designing time!"
i could see ANY and ALL of these being in a contemporary art museum.
🙏🙏
For any ball bounce project, the harder the base or steel plate the more energy it will return to the ball during it's bounce. Blacksmiths use ball bounce to determine if the surface of an anvil is cast iron or tool steel. A really hard anvil can provide an very satisfying long ball bounce. Thank you posting all this.
I have no idea why ball/marble machines are so satisfying and mesmerizing to watch. But they definitely are.
And seem to be pretty universally so too.
Oh man. Ball bearings to transfer force around a complicated curve. Inspirational!
These are all fantastic, but the best are those that don't require extreme tech, of which I think the clock wins out.
I remember seeing a commercially-produced version of that clock at a friend's house back in the 80s. It's such a neat design and I love seeing it come back - and also an explanation of how it works, because as a kid I was never allowed to play with it.
I would have looooved to see your contraptions at the science museum growing up! I really hope you share your designs to museums!
Wow! I especially like numbers 6, 5, and 4. Number 4 looks somewhat like a snowboard cross track or ski cross track at the Olympics.
Beautiful machines! Please do more videos like this.
Love these. My favourite is actually the wave shelf which uses electromagnets. But, the engineering skill in all of these is really impressive. The penultimate design got me thinking. Each of the four steel balls have many parameters acting upon them which makes each of them bounce uniquely. Release point, friction, mass and even the air pressure inside each tube affecting their drop. Before the advent of modern manufacturing techniques for steel balls, steel "shot" was made in a fascinating way. Molten steel was dripped down a large "chimney" called a Shot Tower. On it's way down, it would form into a sphere - solidifying on it's way to the bottom.
Top work man!! Love no 8. Really nice to watch
Seeing you do all these crazy things mechanically makes me so thankful I work in software. God, could you imagine trying to design and debug all that stuff without modern computer tools?
That clock is WAY too good
Just WOW! #2 would make a great background chime machine. Pachinko-style with soft rain/chime sounds.
Amazing work!
Syncing the second machine with the music is such a nice detail
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I've seen a LOT of simultaneously satisfying and crazy things in my life, but I can safely say almost nothing ever, and definitely nothing in the last few years has blown my mind quite like some of these machines have. Not the principles behind them of course, but the execution makes it look as simple as possible while being supremely satisfying.
Glad you're enjoying the machines! 😄 thanks for the support 👊
@@Engineezy Sure brother, you just keep trying your best to put out quality content and you'll get all the support you deserve 🤝
I love the magnet one. A machine without moving parts, mesmerizing magic.
There is a science museum in Winterthur Switzerland called Technorama. Feels like all these designes would feel right at home there.
Also i want that clock!
The clocks are always my favourite. I am so happy I found your channel. One of the only that I click the like button before I even start watching. Even the ad portions are entertaining and informative.
The electromagnet shelf was my favorite, as it is also probably nearly silent in operation. I had to subscribe, as I love these types of videos !
Your video's are what got me into 3D printing and making these cool mechanical things! Thank you for that and keep up the great work!!
Thanks for watching!
All very nice. Could watch them for a long time.
One suggestion: put a curve or angle on the striking face of the hockey stick so that it doesn't hit the ball exactly the same way on every pass. You could have a different profile on each side, and it would end up with more play across the short axis of the rink.
As someone who uses plenty of solid works as an engineering student, although I can’t speak for the price since it’s included as part of my tuition, the quality of solid works is quite high and is very handy for modelling concepts.
In the second to last contraption: Instead of having the balls fall on a dull metal plate, have the balls fall on something similar to a xylophone tone block. You could even move the block seperately so different tones are elicited in different cyclels of the balls falling. Fun video overall
the metal poles on the first ones knows wassup 😏
My guy just made 9 machines in one video. Meanwhile, Wintergatan is stuck measuring how many atoms each marble contains for the last 4 and a half years...
I'm only 3 minutes into this but feel compelled to comment already - I love number 8 so much, therapeutic and beautiful.
So many amazing machines! I’m really impressed. I think the clock was my favorite. I’d make or buy that (with a tweak or two for visual appeal)
Great work!!
~Trav
You are awesome. I loved the catcher's precision, but the clock is beyond! I also use solidworks but I'm a beginner
the way the perpetual machine was in time with the music 😍
This is like magic to me. Engineers are magicians.
Well somehow youtube wanted me to see this "Excellent artwork" full of satisfactory. The combination of gears, mechanical structures and motors was a fantastic trio. Your builds are truly aspiring to all and amazing the same way. Your channel itslef suggests your work. Keep it up.
Thanks for the kind words!
"Today we're not only gonna countdown 10 incredibly satisfying ball machines....
Starting off and number 9"
Amazing designs. I think the simplicity and silence of the perpetual motion one is my favorite. The soccer playing robot is a great challenge and mix of engineering, programming and electronics. But they are all great designs.
Glad you liked them!
i think that first one is a perfect metaphor for the fractal-like nature of our universe and what happens over time with entropy in a system. which, if you manage to see the order in chaos-actually ends up looking like emergence.
Super cool. The rolling ball clock was invented by Harley Mayenschein in the 1970s and I would have merely referenced it and skipped it. The others are amazing. I would have loved the horiz perpetual motion one if you could make the ball hollow and using internal magnets, roll over the edge and sort of continue on the underside of the sculpture, defying gravity. Kind of like a BB8 droid.
All such brilliant work my friend!
I like #4 the most, then #3.
I had a ball clock 30 years ago. When the runners were clean, it ran well, but dust happens.
Thank you for this early Christmas gift!
True
Number 7 made my jaw drop - I thought the bounce would be much less predictable from such a height, so it fascinated me.
Number 5 might make me slightly less terrible at time-math XD the tracks are very visually pleasing as well. Wish I'd had something like that as a kid!
This is awesome! I saw a lot of your shorts showing off bits and pieces but them all together was worth the wait!
Number Three … that is just plain awesome.
0:31 I still remember him....
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Who?
@@royhuff7772 0:24
No' 3 is the best.
You are very talented ❤❤❤
When I was a kid, we had a marble-based clock just like yours in the living room. Very cool then.
The clock is the best!! Love this video Jay. You keep topping yourself I think this is my new favorite video of yours haha. Brilliant!
Thanks legend!
Those ball bearings to do the curve is so clever.
You need to start production on that wall mounted perpetual motion device. Super cool.
The clock was by far the best!
Oh no, the speed you put that first one that was perfect 😂😂😂
Im a mechantronics engiinering student and I loved this video. It inspires me to learn and I cant wait until I can make cool projects too. I hope you continue making videos
I need number 3, so simple looking, so soothing
I really hope number 3 becomes a product because I love it so much!
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
No.3 was my favourite.
I’d want one of those.
My adhd is loving this
1:31 I wonder if the clock is a coincidence. or deliberate.
What?
I wonder if it ever changes.
It's not a clock lol
@@jackisawsome6474 you’re missing something