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A million people have watched this blue marble

February 14, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you ever let a marble roll down your desk? Maybe at school? Kaplamino says this took about three months and more than 500 attempts to make this work. I believe that! You follow a single marble in this… the little blue one. Yeah, sure, sometimes heavier marbles move in order to judge the little […]

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1,000 marble tipping machine

March 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This video has taught me that the German for marbles is knickers! Well. Okay. Nearly. It seems to be knikker but that’s close. Watch as the machine transports dozens of marbles at a time, saves them up and then tips them all at once when there’s 1000 in the pen.

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5 amazing marble runs

November 29, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The marble run is both an art and a science. It’s often amateur carpenters or engineers who are responsible for some of the best creations too; all of them proud geeks at heart. 1. Perimeter Marble Run 2. Motorized Aero Marble Run 3. Magical Marble Maze > 4. Tournament of the Minds’ Marble Run 5. […]

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