This Magnetized Marble Run Is Magnificently Mesmerizing

[HardOCP News]

Honestly, I wish I had time to do stuff like this. It just seems like it would be pretty damn cool to put it all together and then test it over and over until it worked perfectly.

 

[Nukester]

Those are some weak magnets. The ones I use have warning labels. That being said, I loved it. Great use of tedious tricks that I would never have the patience to set up. It was great.

He should get an A in physics for this.

 

[MongGrel]

Pretty slick from a Rube Goldberg aspect, looks like it was edited a few times myself

Fun to watch though.

 

[fuzzylogik]

fun watch indeed

 

[NExUS1g]

Are those thin little sticks pieces of dry spaghetti?

 

[Criticalhitkoala]

That was really fun. White balance variance was annoying, but it was nice!

 

[nilepez]

All smiles after that video.

 

[Nukester]

All smiles after that video.

Something about watching those magnets grab the chain and spin around, just makes you smile.

 

[FrgMstr]

We need to buy that guy a bigger table.

 

[Galvin]

Be cool if there was a marble simulator. That makes you make all the things we seen with balls or marbles.

 

[CptTrips]

Was that a table or his floor? Poor guy has a super slanted house.

 

[Youn]

It was fun guessing what the outcome would be... like reading source code before knowing what a program does...

I'm guessing it was set up on a slightly tilted table, using tape to secure thing down?

 

[Rahh]

I wanted to see the entire thing as a while before or even after it was done. >:8( With that said it was interesting to watch.

 

[steakman1971]

Cool video. It distracted me from answering an annoying email, so kudos

 

[Xrave]

Was that a table or his floor? Poor guy has a super slanted house.

Yea...I couldn't figure out where the gravity was coming from.

 

[Dr. Righteous]

Guaranteed view getter.
Yeah, lots of editing in that; none of that was shot in sequence.

 

[Stereodude]

Yea...I couldn't figure out where the gravity was coming from.

It looks like it was on a table with an incline. Clearly not vertical or flat.