Marble Machine Subculture

Marble machines are complicated but useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles.

Marble machine subculture.

The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands. 9 32 inch stainless steel ball. This automation could in theory lead to gains in productivity as people are now freed up to pursue more productive goals. After stumbling across the existing marble machine subculture molin set aside a couple of months to build his own music machine.

But as it turns out it s even more fun to watch an automated machine that plays with marbles. In the end it took two years beginning with 3d software designs. The marble machine is versatile. Merrill heatter and bob quigley packaged the program with robert noah as executive producer.

100mm x 100mm base. Molin is able to make it play bass percussion and a vibraphone using a series of levers that direct the rolling marbles where he wants them. The program premiered on nbc on july 7 1975 at 12 00 pm et replacing the short lived game show blank check.