I'm going to try to play 50 000 marbles
on the Marble Machine X. Hopefully with zero fails. Starting the motor right there. [MMX starting] So we're gonna play in 122 bpm. We're gonna drop
exactly 200 marbles per minute. Playing 50 000 marbles will take 4 hours and 10 minutes.
[chuckles] So we have the snare drum, as always.
[click] [snare drum] But I've added one instrument for this test, that's why we can play 50 000 marbles.
Let's go with the kick drum. [♪ unreleased/Rolling the Boulder (Drum Beat) ♪] We're at 2000 marbles, zero fails. Let's compare this result already now
to the last week's result. In the last test we played 30 000 marbles, 6 marbles failed
and we used 2 out of the 38 tracks, for a score of 0.16. In this test we played 2000 marbles so far, 0 marbles have failed and we are using 4 of 38 tracks, which gives us a score of 0.02. And my goal for today is to beat the previous score and set a new all time record for the Marble Machine X. Let's see if we can do that. [♫] 4000 marbles, 0 fails. Do you like my blue tape? I knew you would love it!
[laughs] [♫] 6000 marbles, 0 failed; So far, everything is perfect. To be able to play with
both the snare drum and the kick drum I built this plywood module here. [wood clattering] This was quite a 3D puzzle to design and assemble. I've used one of my favorite design techniques, I have split the design in the middle.
When putting two mirrored halves together
you get a perfect internal marble path. I absolutely love working with this technique.
[screwdriver clicking] The flat head bolts look so nice
in the countersunk birch plywood. And on the backside, you can see the bolts have
threaded into the internal threads in the plywood. Perhaps I used a few too many bolts here, but it's a nice feeling with this
packet that goes together so well.
The purpose of this design
is to create some friction for the marbles to reduce some weight
of the marble queue pressing downward. I'm trying to create the longest marble path possible to create maximum resistance. Here is a technique I learned from watching
Matthias Wandel's youtube channel. By tapping these screws lightly, you get a little point and you know exactly where to pilot drill. And then when you assemble things,
things assemble nicely. [wood sliding on table] The plywood module has eight channels: Two channels for the snare drum,
and two channels for the kick drum which we are using in today's test. But it also has two channels for the hi-hat and two channels for the cymbal. So I have done some preparation work for upcoming tests that will include the hi-hat and the cymbal.
Designing this module was a real brain twister, I had to really scrape
at the bottom of my [giggles] abilities to get all of these 3D paths ending up
where I wanted them correctly. So here I'm testing with a marble to see that all the inputs lead to the correct outputs. And I'm very relieved to see that they did. So far everything looks good. This is a prime example of form from function. I didn't design this to look good,
I just designed it to work good. But I actually really like how it looks. [♫] 8000 marbles played, 0 failed. Take a look at this clean floor.
[chuckles] So clean! When I designed the new marble droppers, I knew I wanted them to be removable, and this has proven to be extremely useful.
So now I can remove all the marble droppers
to make space to drill some holes in this horizontal bar. The plywood module rests on this horizontal bar and I can attach it from below with screws.
[screwdriver clicking] It's really nice to see this plywood monster in place. I think it looks really cool. [♫] 10 000 marbles, 0 fail. We are on our way to the goal of 50 000 marbles! Let's celebrate this marble milestone
by updating the score. So when I update the orange cell to 10 000 marbles, the score in the green cell updates automatically to 0.11 We're already close to beating the high score.
[music ends] And in the last video, I caused a huge controversy by using this spreadsheet plus an extra calculator on top. Which is of course, a very memorable
face palm moment provided by yours truly.
[laughs] As many of you pointed out a spread sheet is a calculator in itself and can of course, be used much more efficiently. So I made this new spreadsheet
using this function for the score calculation. [♫] This is not only more efficient, it's also really satisfying in that special way
only a spreadsheet can be. So, really, thanks everyone for the brilliant feedback. [♪ unreleased/Rolling the Boulder (Drum Beat) ♪] 12 000 marbles, 0 fails. I thought I'll just show you
how nice these muting levers were so… No kick drum… No snare drum… Kick drum No kick drum. Snare drum Kick drum [kick drum stops] It's so cool; This muting system is so great! Let's add some hi-hat machine.
[snare drum, kick drum and hi-hat] That is kind of cool. We designed the muting levers so I can pull them anytime,
nothing goes wrong. I think that is pretty cool. [♪ Wintergatan: Rolling the Boulder ♪] [music halts] [servo] [music continues] [sander vibrates] [blows air] [drill whirring] 14 000 marbles played, 0 fails. And… Boom! The Wintergatan Sheet Music Collection. Check this out! I always wanted to make a book like this. The Wintergatan Sheet Music Collection includes
all published Wintergatan music. If you go to wintergatan.net
you can buy the physical book or download the digital PDF version.
For the digital version
we have a pay what you want option. You can enter the price zero
and download the PDF completely for free or choose to add a voluntary payment if you want to. You can put the PDF on your digital devices. If you're a teacher,
you can send the PDF to your music students or print sheets from individual songs on your printer [♪ unreleased/Starmachine2000 (Piano Version) ♪] [misses the note] [laughs] Don't do that!
[chuckles] [♪ unreleased/Starmachine2000 (Piano Version) ♪] [♫] The book is illustrated by Genie
and transcribed by Jonas, both of them did an awesome job on this book and I'll leave a link in the description to them both. In the free download section of the website you can find all the audio files
to all the music in the book and also a license to use any Wintergatan song as background music in your video and live stream.
I'm really happy that I can
share the digital version for free. This is thanks to the generous support
from all Wintergatan patrons and youtube members. And looking at the history of the patronage system, I found out that artists like
Leonardo Da Vinci, Shakespeare and Mozart all were supported by patrons. And even though I'm not making any other
comparison here between me and them, it's kind of cool to know that we are in good company and that the patronage system has such historic roots. So thanks everyone for giving me the time to create art and giving me the opportunity
to share it for free with everyone.
[♪ unreleased/Starmachine2000 (Piano Version) ♪] ends [♪ Wintergatan: Rolling the Boulder ♪] [applause]
[♪ Wintergatan: Rolling the Boulder ♪] Back to the marble test! 16 000 marbles, everything perfect, 0 fails! To bring the marbles from the plywood module and
into the marble droppers I'm using acrylic pipe, and I need corn flour and a medical silicone
rod of 18 millimeter to do this properly. It's kind of difficult
to bend these acrylic pipes perfectly, so I've designed this whole design
to make the acrylic pipes short and manageable.
I'm doing one pipe at a time and when both are done, I can put them in simultaneously.
[screwdriver clicks] The next pipe was much harder to bend correctly, So I created a pipe bending jig, and started to machine it on the CNC machine, when this happened.
[music stops abruptly] [CNC machine grinding]
F✱✱k! [machine noise in slow motion] Whoa! [laughs] Epic! Epic CNC fail! I… I forgot to unmark
[laughs] the hole agai…
[laughs] The face palm value I provide
is the bread and butter of this channel. [laughs] So this is what's left of the screw here. [hitting wood] Peeerfect! [laughs] Perfect methods, perfect results. You're watching Wintergatan Wednesdays.
[giggles] [whoosh] Despite the screw up,
this bending jig performed brilliantly and the jig is designed
so it doesn't only provide the bend, but it also provide my cut off points. So when I'm cutting the pipe off I only have
to rest the saw against the side of the jig and that's exactly where the pipe needs to be cut off. I've been practicing bending acrylic pipes
a lot in this process and I think these are among the best pipes
I've ever made.
All four pipes are nearly identical and they fit into the machine perfectly. [♪ Wintergatan: Rolling the Boulder ♪] 18 000, clean floor! Nooo! Nooo! 20 000 marbles played, 1 fail. 20 000 marbles played, 1 failed, gives us 0.21 a new all time record for the Marble Machine X.
[whirring] [♪ unreleased/Rolling The Boulder] ♪] [♫] [♫] 22 000 marbles played, 1 fail. 26 000 marbles played, 2 failed. 28 000 marbles played, 3 failed. 30 000 marbles, 4 failed another one missed the funnels. 30 000 marbles is the most we have
ever played on the Marble Machine X and we have a new high score of 0.32. [♫] We played 34 000 marbles, 4 failed. 36 000 marbles played, 4 failed. 40 000 marbles, 4 fails. WOW! [♫] All four failed marbles missed the kick drum funnel
on the left side and ended up on the floor, and I have a nice idea for how to solve the funnel issue once and for all, but I will save that topic for an upcoming video. [♫] The kick dropper is doing great! But when I was building it, I had an issue with the
pressure that I wanted to show you how I solved.
OK, so now I'm gonna see if the pressure of these marbles is correct.
[music ends] Let's open the gate… [dropper click] Ooh, that looks perfect! [dropper clicks] Perfect! Okay, snare is all good, let's try the kick. Oh, it's very slow… I was scared of this so I'm pulling… yeah it… yeah, it's too slow. Look… [marble falls on drum] [chuckles] It's coming but it's slow,
there's too much resistance in this pipe. So now I'm really happy
that I designed everything in modules, I can take everything apart, open these marble lanes up
and try to remove some of the friction. [vibraphone ding] When I machined these parts, I programmed the CNC
machine deliberately to leave these ripples here, because I thought these ripples
would create extra friction.
You can actually hear them here…
[grating sound] So first I'm sanding the ripples down
to remove that extra friction and then I'm putting graphite powder
and working the powder into the wood. This will make the marble slide
even better against the plywood… I hope this will be enough. Moment of truth, will the marbles flow faster now? Let's try! [dropper click] [dropper click] No…
[dropper click] So we're just on the cusp of low enough resistance, but this gate can never run dry, that's a big risk for the machine.
So this is not working the way I wanted to. I decided to go the no compromise route, and design and machine some new pressure parts. So here to the right,
you can see the new less friction part. So in the old path here, it's like, ten marbles
and then the new path only five. [videogame sounds] So now for the real moment of truth: Will the marbles feed correctly? [quick succession of dropper clicks] Yeah, it looks good! [dropper clicks] Perfect! Wow! Please be good on this one… [dropper clicks]
Oh yes! [♪ Wintergatan: Rolling the Boulder ♪] Perfect! 48 000 marbles played, only 10 minutes left to 50 000 marbles. We have still only 4 marbles on the floor.
After I moved this funnel a little bit to the left, no marbles on the floor for the last like 30 000 marbles. Wow! 4 hours, 10 minutes… I'll have a snare drum nightmare tonight,
I can tell you that. [chuckles] 20 seconds to go. This reminds me of a Starship, SN8. T-minus 10… …9… …8… …6… …5… …4… …3… …2… …1…
[click] [music fades away] [ambient machine running sounds] [Marble Machine X slowing down] [Marble Machine X stops] Wow… The machine makes
the most beautiful sound right when I… slow it down at… and did you hear that? Final result of the test is
50 000 marbles played, 4 failed, and a score of 0.53 which is an all time record
for the Marble Machine X. And if we look at the scores in a chart like this,
we can see the big progress jump we made
from this test compared to the last one.
Actually, I don't think this could have gone
any better than it did, I think this is an amazing success.
It's exactly like SN8 SpaceX Starship… The… the idea is not how well we perform,
the idea is how much we can learn. Everything I put on now since my redesign
has worked like I intended. This design of the snare drum…
I have basically just copied it
and put it on the kick drum, and it just delivers. No issue with these marble gates, they've been delivering 50 000 marbles with no problem. Everything just works. That was part of my redesign. You're not watching me building a machine, you're watching me learning how to build a machine. I set a goal for myself
that was way above my skill level, and… basically last years has been
me going to school on… mechanical design. And it's more and more obvious that
all the marbles that are on the floor comes from the marbles missing the funnels. So once I get a grip on that it's just onwards and upwards from here. Thank you so much for following this crazy dream of mine, I wish you all a fantastic day, and check out
the free download section on the website. All the best, see you on the next one. [♪ unreleased/Wintergatan Wednesdays Music Box ♪] // Subtitled by Wintergatan Writers.
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