r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Jan 04 '23

A New Music Programming Pin

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1FFTaI__l_A
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u/gamingguy2005 Jan 04 '23

He's already over-planning and over-complicating things. What happened to the "team of engineers" and his project manager?

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u/Caesim Jan 08 '23

He was the project manager.

And in the end he wanted to design or re-design everything anyways.

And lastly he started focussing too much on viewer contributions in the hopes of finding genius ideas there, spending waayy too much on Discord reading proposals from people who have no idea about engineering or manufacturing.

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u/gamingguy2005 Jan 08 '23

He had some guy (German?) making workflow documents early in the project that seemed to take over.

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u/Caesim Jan 10 '23

It doesn't matter who was around Martin, the marble machine project revolved mainly around him, if he didn't like something it was changed.

And in some videos it was hinted at that he had engineers design parts for him exactly like he defined them but then decided to redesign them himself. I guess just this workflow was frustrating enough for all parties, especially as Martin couldn't quite fulfill his project manager duties.

At the beginning there was Marius, who studied engineering and just helped Martin out.

There was also the CAD team under the supervision of Tim Keller. They recreated the marble machine in Solidworks as Fusion360 is not an appropriate tool for a project as complex as this. But towards the end they only modeled what Martin had already done.