Wintergatan

Physics & Form From Function FTW

Design Requirements work in progress

90 degrees boooooooo 45 degrees yeeeeeaaaa

The design requirement process pushed me to gather some more information about how the instruments were supposed to play. So here we are with some prototyping again.

weeeeeoooowww wakawaka weeow

Big Thanks to Louis Barclay for recommending this book on the Marble Machine engineering discord!

I’m making a cardboard model of the new Marble Machine, as a quick way to try different design options. I got the idea from the book ”How Big Things get Done” where the Planning Professor Bent Flyvbjerg recommends cardboard modeling as a low-tech, fast and cheap planning tool for complex projects. I never knew planning could be this much fun, I always thought planning was boring and uncreative. Compared to sketching in CAD this was much faster and felt much more real. Scale 1/10 BOOM!

How can we switch between songs on the new marble machine, fast and reliably? In this video we are looking at a new method to make this possible.

Researching how I can make Steel Balls Dropping on Cymbals sound good.