I WANT ONE OF THESE!!!!!

Too much free time on hand.

sroemerm - i actually screamed out "I WANT ONE!!" while watching this too cool!

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/binary_marble_adding_mach.html

Numbers suck! Letters FTW!!

maybe you'd like a marbla machine that splits words into syllabes?

I wonder if this is a good way of explaining the binary system to someone new to it or if it would just add to the possible confusion.

Now that the constructor of this machine has the addition done what's next? I can already imagine a comparator with weighing scales. And after that: The Marble CPU.

Great!!
hypnotic!!
buuutt...after a couple of secs I did not pay any attention to the numbers and my attention was just catched by the little cute spheres..I missed all the "binary stuff", so..I´ve to play it again!

i don't get it. you start with one addition problem, and it turns it into another addition problem. either way you're still left with an addition problem which, for big numbers, you'd probably need a calculator. still cool to watch tho. i admire his creativity.

pipp, this machine is not meant to help you doing additions, it is meant to show you how binary numbers work.

Well, maybe it's simply meant to be cool.

This is a good visual aid for learning the binary system, IMO. It's sheer visual entertainment value is just as great.

looris, that comeback to karaidl, was high comedy....

lol }hs\


(i meant, "lol thx")

i wanna see the Marble NVIDIA GeForce 8800 rendering a frame from Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta

i don't get it. you start with one addition problem, and it turns it into another addition problem. either way you're still left with an addition problem which, for big numbers, you'd probably need a calculator. still cool to watch tho. i admire his creativity.

I can clearly see how it would pile up dust so neatly on my shelf... :*)

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

uselessness directly proportional to coolness.

lol the cluster. actually I think you can really build a device to cascade them, at least: notice when he overflows the marble drops down.

nice, a canadian wooden adding machine i love it.

The only reason it "turns an adding problem into another adding problem" is because you reflexively start in base-10 and end in base-10. If you used binary as your native number system, it would do all the work for you.

*engineering

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