Aren't they neat! When I've finished making Roman stuff for next weekend's rubgy tour I'll have try making some. They put my effort... http://youtu.be/fxtewUcf54U in the shade.
Pfffft, he uses plastic gears. ;) The woodgears.ca guy and his readers make all-wood marble machines that will really boggle your mind: Wooden marble machines.
Reminds me of the plastic Marbleworks toys I had as a kid, where you could build massive branching runs and race multiple marbles. If properly leveled, they'd diverge more or less randomly at the branch points, or get dispersed in pachinko-style pieces. Maybe not as beautiful, but really fun(my favorite was definitely the jump/catch pair of pieces). http://www.amazon.com/MARBLEWORKS%C2%AE-Starter-Set-Discovery-Toys/dp/B003SAM6BU
Aren't they neat! When I've finished making Roman stuff for next weekend's rubgy tour I'll have try making some. They put my effort...
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/fxtewUcf54U
in the shade.
Clearly the work of a genius, and artisan.
ReplyDeletePfffft, he uses plastic gears. ;) The woodgears.ca guy and his readers make all-wood marble machines that will really boggle your mind: Wooden marble machines.
ReplyDeletereally cool
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the plastic Marbleworks toys I had as a kid, where you could build massive branching runs and race multiple marbles. If properly leveled, they'd diverge more or less randomly at the branch points, or get dispersed in pachinko-style pieces. Maybe not as beautiful, but really fun(my favorite was definitely the jump/catch pair of pieces). http://www.amazon.com/MARBLEWORKS%C2%AE-Starter-Set-Discovery-Toys/dp/B003SAM6BU
ReplyDelete