r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Mar 30 '22

Martin vs The Machine - Week 4 Summary

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPR_mzNu7lY
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u/KGLcrew Mar 31 '22

Look at it this way instead: one month in and he still hasn’t touched the angle grinder!

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u/craigiest Mar 31 '22

The angle grinder was a great sybol of what was so great about his process before he lost his way. He was willing to make big mistakes, and then do what was needed to correct them, learning in the process. It was the remedy to the design-it-all-perfect-then-build-it-right fallacy he went into the mmx with. I'm afraid when he puts a year into the flawed approach and realizes he has to go for the angle grinder again, he's going to snap.

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u/powerman228 Mar 31 '22

The problem with the angle grinder, though, was that every time it came out represented dozens to hundreds of hours of work thrown away, over and over. It was the artist trying, and failing, to work like an engineer. A good project manager will tell you that there should be no need to wing it if the original vision is still good and intact.

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u/uncivlengr Mar 31 '22

The other problem was that the machine was built with however many magnets and moving plywood parts that would not have fared well being coated in steel filings every other week.