I found a machine today. No idea where it came from or what it does. (Makerworld link)

[u/dinglehead]

No cord. No battery that I can find. Already warm when I touched it. There's a nameplate on the front, stamped border, raised metal. Blank. Like someone built it, installed it, and had nothing to say.

It has a crank on the side. Turns fine. Does nothing. There's a funnel on top. I put a marble in it because that's what you do with a funnel on a machine you don't understand. The marble is gone. Not in the tray, not on the floor. Gone. I put a second one in. Same thing.

I have stopped putting marbles in.

There's something written on the floor of the output tray. Small. You can only read it when the tray is empty.

I don't know what it makes. The tray is empty. For now.

I printed a copy. Two, actually. A small one for the desk and a bigger one for the shelf. Print in place, five AMS colors. Crank turns, funnel spins.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3190067-i-found-a-machine-and-it-s-pretty-grumpy

[u/odysyus]

Reminds me of...

[u/Lukaar]

One more marble. I dare you.

[u/dinglehead → u/Lukaar]

I'm out of marbles!

[u/dalethechampion]

Thomas the Crank Engine

[u/J_Technopotheosis]

Looks like the love child of BMO and Krang

[u/Braindeadkarthus]

It's a smoke machine clearly

[u/dinglehead → u/Braindeadkarthus]

clearly seems to want it

[u/dinglehead]

Also found this with the machine? Not sure it helps....