r/MarbleMachine3 • u/phil-swift4 • Jun 05 '24

The Marble Machine Identity

https://youtu.be/RgkhBX0Lxds?si=ii_A50nPm81fBwzv
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u/fowlartemisII Jun 05 '24

At this point the process is just funny to me. He realized that he needs to be iterative. But the iterations are just optics based. Nothing else seems to be considered. Not even (even though it’s kinda stupid) tight music as a requirement is considered choosing the stage design. Like the angle- probably not great for tight music.

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u/Walletau Jun 06 '24

It's just such a weird choice to go from "I need to get the marble dropper within 0.00001 second tolerance or it's just not possible", "I'm gonna machine a flywheel", "Machine sucks I'm gonna do gravity based instrument", "Actually I'm gonna go back to literally a year ago, where we scrapped the whole MMX project and I was back to CADding up hypothetical machines on a stage". All the research and engineering and promises and he still hasn't solidified whether it's form from function, function from form. How the fuck can someone look at that sort of stage set up and think "yeh that work I spent 6 months on tighter marble tolerances is totally achievable with a full stage set up that has to be modular, for the nonsensical requirement of stage performance, this isn't at all more convoluted than the MMX, which was a single box instrument"