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Klicker, Schusser, Guggerle, Ömmer – Murmeln haben viele Namen, aber eines ist meistens gleich: Im Inneren der Murmel sind schöne, bunte Muster. Um herauszufinden, wie die da reinkommen, hat Malin eine Glasmanufaktur in Lauscha besucht.

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Marble Racing is a sport watched by millions. In fact, these marbles have more fans than a lot of athletes. People buy their merch, and they even have their own team chants! That’s because brothers Jelle and Dion Bakker have created a captivating world, where a bunch of inanimate objects rolling down a plastic track suddenly becomes an exhilarating sport.

After a life-long passion for marbles, Jelle created a YouTube channel, and audiences quickly became obsessed with their high production value and creative races.

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Marble League is starting officially with Honeycomb Team Pursuit! The season is starting and everyone is buzzing around for another exciting season! 16 events, 16 teams, 1 champion

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We’re making marbles at the Dave’s Appalachian Swirls marble factory! Join us at the Andy Davis Celebration Run as we walk you through the process of how machine-made glass marbles are manufactured from start to finish. We will look at the cullet, furnace, marble machine and the packing process.

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The exact alignment of the hose is very important for the marble run loop to succeed. The exact alignment of this marble run can take some time, but this is an easy way to make a nice marble run at home.

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Daniel de Bruin misst und biegt und klebt und lötet sich darin eine ziemlich geschmeidige Murmelbahn aus Draht zusammen. Ich mag das.

After my first how to make a marble machine video and the many questions I got from you, I decided to make the ultimate instruction guide on how to make a marble machine!
A perfect way to spend your time during corona quarantine.

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Vor drei Jahren hat Martin Molin von Wintergatan eine von ihm konzipierte und gebaute Murmelmaschine vorgestellt, die Musik spielt und hat damit so ziemlich alles abgerissen, was man im Netz so abreißen kann. Jetzt hat Molin eine neue Musik machende Murmelmaschine gebaut. Und die klingt fast noch besser als das drei Jahre alte Original. Beeindruckend ist die Idee und die Umsetzung allemal.

The Marble Conveyer Belt is Completed and it delivers Perfectly.
– lifts 8 marbles per crank turn.
– thanks to it being driven by ratchets and pistons, it makes a short halt to load and unload the marbles, on exactly the same spot every time.
– The pistons are connected to the crank shaft with a 2:1 gear reduction which means that the conveyer belt go in time with the music, and in half time. I can even use the mechanical sounds from the ratchets and the marbles climbing the fish stair to create parts of the beats.
– I only had one kick drum channel up and running so the kick drum plays on 2-4 like a snare normally would. Sounds a little strange but I just made this piece of music to demonstrate the concepts are working. (no music you hear in the videos are going to be used for the album, its quick and dirty functional pieces for the videos only)
– Its been a journey but we are now on our way. Again.
– the throw of the pistons s 40mm, the pitch of the chain is 15,875×2 mm, an imperial value, and it happens to be exactly twice the marble diameter. All this makes it possible to lift exactly one row of marbles per crank turn. The ratchets move 40 mm but only grabs onto the chain to move it exactly 31,75mm per crank turn.

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Die Quali für die MarbleLympics 2019 liegt schon eine Weile zurück, jetzt geht es endlich um finale Entscheidungen. Aber erstmal die Opening Ceremony.

Welcome to the 2019 MarbleLympics! The MarbleLympics is a series where teams of marbles compete in their own Olympic Games. This video includes the Opening Ceremony of the 2019 season, along with the first event, Underwater Marble Race.

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Neues Video von Jelle’s Marble Runs: „The qualification of the 2019 MarbleLympics (marble olympics)! 20 teams will battle for 12 qualification spots in 4 disciplines (events).“ Spannender als so mancher Tatort.

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„The trick at 0:23 caused the majority of the fails. It had to be exactly in the right position and it was moving because of the vibrations of the trick above. The air canon with the balloon was a big challenge to make. The rubber band squeezes the balloon around the straw to release the air in a specific direction. Then the hardest part was to find how to stop the air and deliver it when I want. It was too difficult to put something like tape at the end of the straw because it was either too clingy or not enough. The solution was to twist the balloon around the straw and block it in this position with a rope. In this position the air stays in the balloon until it untwists. I explain it because I think what exactly happened it’s not easy to get when you see the video. After this I built a timing catapult trick. I know I’m crazy because timing tricks are so unreliable, it was mostly based on luck but worked 80% of the time. It was so sensitive, just a little more dust or some hair on my table could make it fail so I had to clean it for almost every take. Yep I used a fidget spinner again, I’m proud of this one, nice and almost never failed. The big catapult was supposed to be a trick with fire (the plan was to build something with elements: fire, air and water). The marble was supposed to go up because of the explosion of a firecracker :p But it was too risky, I know it can work (it worked 2 times) but with MASSIVE luck. It’s impossible to predict how they’ll explode. And it caused lots of others problems. The marble was burned and it wasn’t rolling really well after that. The shockwave can trigger other tricks and finally the debris from the explosions was falling all over the place and could block the marble at a later stage. It also burned the table and hurt my ears. So I gave up, but maybe you’ll find this trick in a screenlink later ;) About the water trick. Release the water was really easy, but it took me weeks to figure out what to do with it. You can’t push something with it, not enough force … So I taped a folded paper and when the water touched it, it got wet and unfold because of the weight :D But the marble also touches the water and gets wet. After that you can see that it moves slowly. So the final trick had to be VERY sensitive. Why do I always put the most sensitive trick at the end?“

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Kaplamino hat sich ein paar dutzend Fidget Spinner genommen und mit denen eine ziemlich abgefahrene Murmelbahn gebaut. Die aktuell wahrscheinlich beste Verwendung für die Dinger.

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„The sculpture has ten different track paths with loops (both small and large), four tipping arms, balls on track, Ferris wheel ball lifter, serpentine, zig-zag, semi automated switch, two ball switch, ball collector jump, ball collector, spinning arm, three tall spirals, oval flat spiral, conical spiral and plenty of track! the helical lift has three guide tracks, delivering the marbles back to the top of the sculpture. Each set of marbles remains independent of the other two sets.“

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After 3 months of work and probably more than 500 fails, I’m happy to present you my best video ever.
Since magnets and marbles I’ve always wanted to make a big chain reaction in one take with this 2D style !

It’s also a „one marble path“ which means you have to follow the same marble for all the tricks (in that case the little blue one.) Because everything is in a tilted plane, the hard part was to find different ways of having the marble riding up along the table (magnets, falling weight, catapult …). To do that, the marble has to be light. And because everything has to be triggered by this little marble, all the tricks are very unstable. Most fails happened when an element fall down earlier than expected.

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this is my favorite! #matteogonet #glassworks #mobilabgallery#met #MetGala #perrotin#gagosian#gagosiangallery#dakisjoannou #frieze#ursfischerart #glassart #artgeneve #artinny #artweekmiami #childhood#artsf#artinla#losangelesart#lasvegasart#mo16#MO16#tokyodesignweek#icff#frieze #artmiami

Ein von Childhood in a marble (@kosmosphaera) gepostetes Foto am 6. Mär 2016 um 12:59 Uhr

daylight sand and happyness @mobilabgallery #kosmosphaera next expo april 30 th @chateaudevuillerens

Ein von Childhood in a marble (@kosmosphaera) gepostetes Foto am 3. Apr 2016 um 9:36 Uhr

no filter! magic moments where fire give birth #glassworks #kosmosphaera #londontent2016#artbasel#dakisjoannou#art#artglass#glassmarble

Ein von Childhood in a marble (@kosmosphaera) gepostetes Foto am 27. Mai 2016 um 14:16 Uhr

first exhibition early 2016@mobilabgallery next exhibitions: june 28 th permanant collection of xxxx museum ( name revelated on 28 th…) august 16/21 poli cup Gstaadt and tentlondon sept 22-25 #kosmosphaera #art #contemporaryglassart#dakisjoannou #tatemodern#herzogdemeuron#artbadel#matteogonet#marbles#glassmarbles ? thévoz-choquet ??

Ein von Childhood in a marble (@kosmosphaera) gepostetes Foto am 13. Jun 2016 um 5:18 Uhr

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In this project, I use those little magnets that can be used to make cubes and others geometric figures, I think the name is „Neocube“.

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33 marbles will compete in this exciting Marble Race which measures around 500 feet. This track has been made on a sand hill „Klimduin Schoorl“, („Climbing Dune“ near Alkmaar, the Netherlands).
The marbles will encounter some junctions, halfpipes, jumps and lots of curves while rolling down to the finish.

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A very amazing long marble run made on a sand hill, 12 marble competes to win this epic rally! Only one marble will win. This marble race is divided in 4 stages, each of tem contains lots of obstacles like junctions, slaloms, halfpipes, a funnel and a jump.

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