retroremakes
March 4th, 2010, 19:05
Equipped with a marble, some wood and the principles of potential energy (http://gizmodo.com/tag/potentialenergy/), kinetic energy (http://gizmodo.com/tag/kineticenergy/) and gravity, one man built a remarkable machine that warps your very sense of what's physically possible. Prepare yourself, then hit the clip at 2:30.
While this video eventually ends, the device can keep going, sending the marble in a loop from the top to the bottom to the top (to the bottom...) without stop, as long as a single weight is repositioned to reset various components.
And, if for some reason, you're one of those guys thinking to himself, "Meh, I could do that." Please, please do. [Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b8tek/this_is_a_wooden_marble_machine_it_is_6_feet_tall/) via CrunchGear (http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/03/video-excellent-hand-built-self-powered-marble-lifting-machine/)]
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More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SQrdnjDWWOY/theres-more-ingenuity-in-this-wooden-marble-machine-than-the-sum-of-my-entire-existence)
While this video eventually ends, the device can keep going, sending the marble in a loop from the top to the bottom to the top (to the bottom...) without stop, as long as a single weight is repositioned to reset various components.
And, if for some reason, you're one of those guys thinking to himself, "Meh, I could do that." Please, please do. [Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b8tek/this_is_a_wooden_marble_machine_it_is_6_feet_tall/) via CrunchGear (http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/03/video-excellent-hand-built-self-powered-marble-lifting-machine/)]
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More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SQrdnjDWWOY/theres-more-ingenuity-in-this-wooden-marble-machine-than-the-sum-of-my-entire-existence)