Matthias's Marble Machines page

My Marble Machines are complicated and ingenious, but utterly useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles. With toys like these, mankind is free to pursue more productive ends, while leaving the playing with marbles to his trusty automated machine servants.

Alas, any productivity gained by this automation is generally offset by crowds of people who consider the machines to be entertaining!

The Machines

The original Lego Marble Machine
  The result of my brother and I challenging each other at Legos

Marble Machine 1
  My first wooden "rolling ball sculpture"

Marble Machine 2
  Unleashes a torrent of marbles!

Marble machine 3
  the modular marble machine

More Pictures of Marble Machine 2
  Just incase you wanted to see more

Marble binary adding machine
  A binary adding machine that operates on marbles

Michael Schulteiss' marble machine
  A very elaborate hand cranked machine

Ronald Walters' marble machine
  A very elaborate hand cranked machine

Marble run building blocks
  Wooden building blocks for making marble runs

Some Concepts explained

People are always asking how some parts of the machines work.
These pages explain some of the elements of my machines

Marble Flipflop explained
Marble Pump elevating mechanism explained
Marble Wheel elevating mechanism explained

Related links

My Lego Machines
  More useless machines!

The Great Ball Contraption
  Modular Lego ball machines. Pretty cool!

Brad Litwin's machines on Youtube
  Brad Litwin also has a Website, although not about his machines.

The Rolling Ball Web
  More rolling ball sculptures by other people.

www.kugelbahn.ch
  Even more rolling ball stuff

To my Home Page or my Woodworking website