I love computers but I think my slightly addled brain is just too stupid to quite understand how they work. Thankfully people like Matthias Wandel are looking out for me (although they probably don't ...

Equipped with a marble, some wood and the principles of potential energy, kinetic energy and gravity, one man built a remarkable machine that warps your very sense of what’s physically possible.

In the fever dream that was my youth, I was enamored with an odd sketch on Sesame Street featuring a ball that goes up and down a long, windy track before ending up as a pile of powder. This sequence ...

There's something mesmerizing about watching a marble race down a wooden track, clicking and clacking its way through loops, spirals, and drops. It's a simple pleasure that never gets old, no matter ...

Last year, artist and musician Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan shared the results of his mechanical labor of love with the online community – the Musical Marble Machine. A captivating ...

Pincho balls are circulated like a Pythagora switch by combining wooden handwheel handles, gears, rails, etc. with drums, vibratophones and bases, turning the handwheel handle, and when the pachinko ...