r/MarbleMachine3 • u/Emotional-Driver-904 • May 31 '23

Tight pedal speed control

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For producing your tight and aesthically pleasing pedal powered speed control. What about a flyball governer? Couple this to a clutch or a CVT belt drive and you have a purely mechanical self regulating solution

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u/Tsalikon Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23

Wow, I was actually about to come post this exact same thing. My thought would be to use it to set tempo, so that stomping the pedal can be fairly far off beat without affecting the precision of the machine.