#marblemachinex

The comet of change - Wintergatan Grinder T-shirt

My main idea for this design is make it look like a comet. Keeping with the space theme Wintergatan has. With the sparks usually seen when using an angle grinder acting as the comet tail.

Wintergatan, aka Martin Molin released the first official video of the marble machine in 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q), the first iteration was made mainly out of wood and was successful in producing the music intended, but still had many flaws in the design due to its “DIY” nature as the multiple moving parts would drop marbles frequently. (image 1)

The second design (image 2 + 3) was much more engineered and accurate and achieved the functionality very well while being aesthetically pleasing, displaying the moving parts in a artistic way. Martin came to realise that these two aspects were clashing with one another and decided to start the 3rd iteration recently, which aims to focus more on the engineering, keeping things simple and sticking to a preliminary digital CAD design rather than designing and manufacturing parts as time went by and as new things were required, as the problem of never finishing is much more likely in a situation where you don’t have a clear outcome to use as reference.