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Kaplamino · Youtube · 136 HN points · 0 HN comments

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Music : Kontinuum - First Rain [NCS Release] :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKI1P2gEK54

Hey ! After 3 domino videos, Marbomino is back ;)
In this project, I use those little magnets that can be used to make cubes and others geometric figures, I think the name is "Neocube".

It's really impressive how many tricks you can do with that, at the beginning I didn't think that I could make a whole project based on those magnets, but finally, it was pretty easy and I think there is still lots of cool tricks to discover !

I like this kind of video when I can't do what I want, I'm forced to think of tricks with magnets in that case. It's the opposite of my video "Random screen link" when I just build all the thing that come to my mind, constraints are good for the creativity it allows to find original tricks that no one has thought (I think, because I've never seen something like this on youtube). It reminds me my project "The New Trick" after rubber bands, let's use magnets ;)

I think this project is the best one of the three I did with marbles, but there are still a little problem : the lighting.

Because now that I'm in a small appartement for studies, there is only one window on my room, it's not a big one and I don't have powerfull lights. That's why some of the ideas in this screen link seems to be darker than others, you can litteraly see the difference when a cloud passes over the sun (and it's happend 2-3 times).

It's also the reasons why I made a project with marbles, in a small room it's easier than dominoes, even when you have a long table !

- Why the video has taken so long to come out ?

Yeah, I know ... but let me explain, because there's many reasons :

First, I had to buy marbles and magnets on ebay, I waited 2 weeks for the delivery. Then I made a first screen link but it was bad because of a format problem on my camera. The movie was jerky and the lighting was terrible because I tried to use artificial lights (very bad idea ).

Also, this screen link was supposed, at the beginning, to be a big machine in one take on my table, but I give up after 50 fails, maybe RGM is not my thing. Maybe I just need to try with more reliable tricks ^^

And the last reason : I'm lazy and perfectionnist, with those two things it's hard to finish a project, because I have this idea in my mind since 3 months maybe, and I work really hard for only 4 minutes at the end (domino builder is a hard job) .But trust me there is more work in this project than you can see in this video, because of how many times I start from scratch.

You can see that this description is bigger than in my other videos, because this time I had lots of things to say, and I realize that it's better for you to know the background of a project.

If you read all this description, thank you and sorry for my bad english, I'm not used to write long texts like this, but I hope it was interesting and I hope you like my video ;)

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May 10, 2016 · 136 points, 17 comments · submitted by NikhilVerma

⬐ sethammons
From one of the comments, this needs to be a game / app. It has the feel of Magic Pen or Cut the Rope. My game dev skills are non-existent, but a game with these physics, blocks, magnets and marbles, etc, would be a fun playground. Create these kenetic sculptures and share, or modify them to pass a level.

⬐ benjoffe
There are games of this sort, the earliest I'm aware of is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_%28seri...

⬐ jagermo
It was my Minecraft, building strange and funny contraptions and stuff. So good.

⬐ nexxer
TIM is indeed incredible, I remember spending many hours on the PC playing it.
The proposed The Incredible Magnet should be mobile, a dumbed down subset for casual puzzle solving. Move the magnetic sphere from X to Y using magnets, pulleys, and rubber bands!

⬐ sethrin
To my mind, this qualifies as 'kinetic sculpture'.

⬐ sago
I find myself wanting to sing "pitagora suichi' at the end of every screen.

⬐ etrautmann
This is insanely creative - very worth watching.

⬐ ultrablue
Genius!

⬐ po1nter
We're /r/videos now?

⬐ aaron695
Since we are not I guess the conservation can be it's obviously fake.
Or else why do they keep cutting it?
It's just a series of small rube machines (aka luck pot shots) faked together?
The wood grains look pretty similar to me between shots.
Not to say the art of a fake movies is valueless, the masses and what they believe are funny to watch, but not up to HN standards about truth and hacking and engineering.

⬐ ygra
As the creator commented: »I know this thing isn't a real "Rube Goldberg" because it was not taken in a single shot. I tried but it was almost impossible because tricks with magnets are really unpredictable.«

⬐ eckza
Read the info on the video man, the author refers to it as a 'screen link'. Nobody's trying to fool anyone.

⬐ 91bananas
What exactly is fake about it? It's clearly not intended to be portrayed as a continuous system... It's just a series of cool shit man

⬐ NikhilVerma
No we are not. The day we start voting videos of soflo antonio we will become.
This is an insanely creative video, i have not something like this in many years so i thought the creative minds at hn would like it. Maybe it will inspire someone to create something different, who knows?

⬐ CPLX
First reaction: How the hell are people voting lame videos onto the HN front page? Ugh, this place it turning into Reddit.
Second reaction: OMG this is mesmerizing. Wait how much time did I just burn watching the entire thing?

⬐ bgeeek
It was on the front page of reddit yesterday.

⬐ collyw
I enjoyed it (and I read Reddit as well as HN).

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