20 May 2020, 04:50

Excitedly introducing Marble Track 3

(started 04:50 Wednesday 20 May 2020 JST)

I am sketching out my plan for presenting Marble Track 3 to people online today at 9:30 my time.

Here is a video of me presenting Marble Track 2

Predictably, responses to the video were in two main camps.

“awesome”

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“wasted time”

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Some people were like “How did you make it??”

Well, start with a wooden base, then put two sticks on it to act as guideways for marbles. Here is one of the end points for large marbles

endpoint for large marbles Tuesday 31 Oct 2006 0202 PM

endpoint with small marble Tuesday 31 Oct 2006 0203 PM

adjacent end for small marbles Tuesday 31 Oct 2006 0355 PM

then just keep going… This is five days later:

Sun 5 Nov 2006 1156 PM Sun 5 Nov 2006 1158 PM

A month after starting:

Thu 30 Nov 2006 072443 PM

And there are more images. You can see them here https://b.robnugen.com/art/marble_track_2/

Hmmm these pictures don’t really show every detail. Wow wouldn’t it be cool to have a video where each piece of the track just appeared in place? It would just seem to 3D print itself.

Nah; that would not look realisitic..

Here is my first attempt at a video

Here are some behind the scenes bits of the first time

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I lost the images, camera, camera holder, and we moved.

I learned a lot from making the first video. I want to have a rotating stage, a better camera mount, and a real camera.

I tried to make a camera holder

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Fortunately, I decided to splurge and get a real tripod.

real camera real tripod: mt3 setup aug 2017

And now, if you are still here, you can see the video snippets which show the construction so far.

https://mt3s.marbletrack3.com/ should be the permalink for the video snippets. It currently refreshes to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KjsYc4Mb5g&list=PL0osPGt21FB48UwuhtCUoi9JndC9YDHAZ

Things to do

Here is the site

https://www.marbletrack3.com/

Current-ish version as of this writing https://5c582c422ffdf30008626c5d--wonderful-bhabha-dfd1ef.netlify.app/

Old version from Jan 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190111132634/https://www.marbletrack3.com/