We love building things and we love watching machines move. Here are some of our latest favorites from the web to brighten up your day.
#1 The Marble Machine
Music and Engineering. A mechanical wonder. This gentleman is part engineer and part musician (as Front man for the Swedish band Wintergatan), and plays this hand-crafted mechanical engineering beast like it’s an instrument. A circuit of 2000 cascading steel marbles activate a vibraphone, an electrical bass guitar, a built-in Turkish cymbal and other instruments. Incredible sounds and fun to watch.
#2. Bridge building machine
Got a bridge you need to build in place? Necessity is the mother of invention. We don’t know how else they would do this, but this machine is amazing in the way it can lift itself up and move things around to build a bridge, in place.
#3. 5-Axis CNC machine
Machining a crank shaft in one shot. I’ll never be this coordinated. Beauty is in the details. Yes, it’s a long watch, but anyone familiar with the complexities of a crank shaft will appreciate the coordination of multiple axes working together to polish the journals.