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I love watching Marten's designs evolve.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh he is STILL at it? Wow, that's 5 years? Or more? Gotta give him this: he's persistent! I watched him at first, even if it's infuriating at times, but eventually even I lost interest, and I build shit like that myself. No marble machine, but giant mechanical calculators, a pneumatic organ, boats etc But I think that's what happens when musicians fabricate stuff. I know one who builds his dream guitar for 16 years. Next year he'll be done. So he says. But then again, so he says for 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, he threw out the machine to start over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Both machines are on display at a museum in Germany. Volunteers have iterated on MMX to the point where is can play music https://www.smmk.de/marble-machines.html