Wintergatan war bereits im April 2016 Gast in unserer damaligen Ausgabe der „WIN Compilation„, jetzt hat er wieder gute Chancen, am Dienstag in der nächsten aufzutauchen. Noch bin ich jedoch unsicher, ob ich ein kurzes und knappes Stück aus dem Video bekomme, das die Großartigkeit seiner neuerlichen Konstruktion auch treffen zu übertragen weiß. Daher bekommt die im 78. Arbeitsschritt (bzw. Video zur Erstellung) endlich fertig gebauten „Marble Machine X“ diesen Einzelbeitrag, in dem ihr die musikalische Murmel-Maschine in voller Aktion erleben könnt. Alleine, wie die Murmeln von der Trommel in das Rohr fallen – ein beeindruckendes Stück Technik!
„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.
The carriers are flame polished cnc:ed acrylic
– The chain was custom made in Japan and I waited 5 months for it to be delivered. haha. Of all the time consuming darlings on the MMX I love the conveyer belt /fish stair combo the most.
– the marbles looks like they are stuck over the demagnetiser wheel, this is by design, as soon new marbles come into the pipes from below, the marbles are slowly pushed over the demag wheel which ensures perfect demagnetisation.“
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