Remember Martin Molin's Marble Machine X, the mechanical, musical Rube Goldberg machine that uses some 3,000 components and a hand-turned crank to drop marbles in sequences onto acoustic and electric ...

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 ...

Tired of doomscrolling your way through social media but still in need of a distraction? YouTube’s Karakuri channel designed and built a custom iPhone case featuring a complex mechanical marble ...

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 ...

There's always something new to discover on the web. For example, I just ran across the website of a real interesting guy called Matthias Wandel. There's so much to see here that you really have to ...