Netherlands-based YouTuber and “designer of prototypical machines” Daniel de Bruin posted a pair of videos featuring a “miniature marble machine” – and the little contraption is mesmerizing. It’s a ...

Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

Artist Martin Molin has spent the last 14 months designing and hand-building the Musical Marble Machine, a huge loom- or printing press-like contraption made from birch ply that makes use of 2,000 ...

There have been plenty of impressively elaborate musical machines in recent years, but this might top them all. Swedish band Wintergatan has crafted a Musical Marble Machine that, as the name suggests ...

Marble machines are the coloring books of the appliance world. A weirdly soothing attention vortex, this contrivance asks nothing and offers nothing except the joy of watching gravity pull a sphere ...