Last year, artist and musician Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan shared the results of his mechanical labor of love with the online community – the Musical Marble Machine. A captivating ...

Inspired by the enormous marble music machines from the staggeringly talented [Wintergatan] and the marble run builds by [Daniel de Bruin], [Ivan Miranda] has been busy again building a largely 3D ...

Netherlands-based YouTuber and “designer of prototypical machines” Daniel de Bruin posted a pair of videos featuring a “miniature marble machine” – and the little contraption is mesmerizing. It’s a ...

Back in 2016, we featured a stunning wooden machine that employed falling steel marbles to play a merry tune. As plans are drawn up for a new version, its builder has looked back to the designs of ...

I blame the board game Mouse Trap for my fascination with marbles and Rube Goldberg devices. Marbles, dominoes — the kinds of fun that require a complicated setup. Planning. Precision. Engineering. If ...

Marble machines are the coloring books of the appliance world. A weirdly soothing attention vortex, this contrivance asks nothing and offers nothing except the joy of watching gravity pull a sphere ...