Adam Savage Unboxes a Mechanical Marble Run!
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2024
- Adam unboxes and tests this mechanical marble run that was sent to him from Marbolous, and ends up having to tweak and fix the track on the machine to get the marbles flowing through it smoothly. Tuning a marble run is a delicate task, but Adam enjoys the mental challenge of figuring out how every adjustment affects its operation. Can he get it to run smoothly or will Adam lose his marbles?
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Manufacturer:
"Unboxing video of our product yay!!!"
*sees that it's 20 minutes long*
"Oh no..."
Ha!
For $300 there really is NO EXCUSE for something as simple as this NOT to work out of the box
@@gibberishnameseems you missed a word in there.
@@rasmusvedel haha, thanks. speech to text fail. fixed.
@@gibberishname There are more than one kinds of "simple". Having effectively only two moving parts is one kind and it applies to this device... sort of. OTOH count up the number of curves and straight slopes add one for a marble and you have a more realistic idea of the number of moving parts. Now make each of these parts adjustable but adjustment of one changes at least two other parts, and your idea of "simple" becomes a joke. You could make a version of this device that needs no adjustments and works flawlessly every time. It would not look anything like this and would most likely be ugly as sin.
My two cents: the marbles have large enough differences in weight, diameter and "roundness" that tuning this thing to perfection is a wild goose chase
In one of the close up shots you can see where Adam is having the problem (16:30). It looks like inside wire is disconnected. It transitions from one wire to another lower wire. I suspect it is causing the balls to bounce and be unstable at that point.
@@dodaexploda I totally forgot that aspect you are right. My point still stands imo
He lost his marbles😂
@@robinmaurer2645 your point absolutely still stands and is a potential issues.
Nah. Marble sizes today are highly accurate, uniform, and void of flaws that would disrupt a run. The problem is not in the marbles, but lies in the alignment of the track rails. They do need to be finessed a lot if they go out of alignment.
Hey Adam! Sebastian here, the engineer behind Marbolous. Your unboxing video totally made my day! 😊 Seeing Marbolous come to life like this is awesome. It was definitely a wild ride getting everything just right - those precision welds were no joke! If you're setting it up, that little instruction sheet really is a life- and timesaver. 😉 By the way, we have in the meantime optimized the stainless steel tracks and they run much better now.
BR Sebastian
PS: Whoever send the MARBOLOUS to Adam (we bet on a KICKSTARTER or INDIEGOGO supporter?) Thanks so much, you are incredible!
I'm glad you showed up, here. There are an awful lot of early commentors that don't seem to understand that it's kinetic art, not an industrial marble delivery mechanism.
@@blindleader42 Hi! Nice to get to know you :-) Indeed we are with MARBOLOUS far, far away from any industrial marble run. For instance our track elements are all stainless steel, laserwelded not any cheap plastic like most available models. If you have ever tried to weld such small parts you do understand how tight tolerancing must be to built a working marble run. Still I guess we need to rework on adjustment instructions. Once understood the adjustment process is easy and fast to handle. But we didn't want to make it too easy for Adam either ;-)
I was anxious just watching the instructions being totally ignored
@@rondavis3232 :D we too
I almost guarantee he didn't set it on the most level surface ever. Since he rotated the fixture and had different results. Kind of a giveaway
I love how the first instruction in the manual is how to open the box… that also contains the instruction manual 😂
A lot of instructions have digital versions available to download so customers could potentially see how to open the box before they have access to the physical copy.
@@ObsessiveGeekYou shouldn’t need instructions on how to open a box. Digital or physical.
Something i learned a long time ago: You can make instructions as idiot-proof as you want, but the joke's on you because an idiot won't read the instructions to begin with.
Seeing Adam's face contort as the thought " oooo a problem to solve " hits is amazing.
Frustrating trying to troubleshoot something when the failure isn't consistent
personally it would be but watching adam do it is quite satisfying
given it sounded like the marbles may be "natural materials" I'd see if it was the same marble or two that are slightly heavier or lighter... thought it could be the total mass of marbles on the run changing the geometry a bit
Story of my life , every single time I try to fix something for someone else, a 5 minute fix turns into an hour or hours ,, it's what the universe gives me for being nice (nice guys always finish last)
I have to believe that you have a couple of marbles that are ever so slightly larger or heavier.
@@gfdia35. Funny how “nice guys” seem to have such a victim mentality…..
If you don’t genuinely want to be helpful, don’t fake it and resent doing so later.
I think it's commendable of Adam to remain enthused by the product, even after its shortscomings appear.
However, while Adam is the perfect person to send a product that needs tweeking, I doubt that many would share his enthusiasm
Let's send him a plank of wood and a spool of solderable wire and call it a diy marble run kit. Bet he'll love it.
I'm losing my marbles just watching this.
Well done.
Adam almost lost some too :)
For the eternal tinkerer I think the need to tweak this out of the box is probably just as satisfying as the product working... But I don't think more average consumers would be as tolerant
Honestly i think if Adam has paid money for this thing and he couldn't get a whole video out of him messing with it he probably wouldn't have been forgiving of the product.
I buy 250$ failure, and open at birthday party for my friend, everyone have the same problem, dont work. "You have one job", to make marble go down, and not working, i spend so much money 250$, and so much time and effort, CEO of company take millions of $ and give this shame? This is the flop of the millenium, everyone hit like button here so nobody buy and spend money and have embbersement like i have, shame on company DONT BUY 250$ dont work. I want public apologies to everyone and 2x money back, ceo make that for 15$ and take 225$ in pocket, am gonna sue the company, and everyone do the same.
Indeed part of the whole fascination with MARBOLOUS should be to interact and adjust it - we think this was always the best back in the good old days once we all played with Marble runs. I assume - and there the blame is on us - we need to improve the instruction on how to adjust the marble run in a structured way. This seems to be the whole "problem" for our point of view
Yea I wouldn't be.. a little tweaking.. maybe.. but it should work as it should out of the box. because 250 bucks isn't nothing, and you're allowed to have the expectation that it should work as normal.. it simply should have better tolerances to be more forgiving to failure for a consumer market
Its a very common problem with marble machines. I think the real problem is simply that the track is formed out of steel wire which is kind of springy and is left floating too much in the air.
I love the fact that the instructions on how to safely remove the product from the box is placed inside that box! Genius!
Just watching the problem solving that Adam does here is so calming. This is why I am a member of this channel. If you aren't a patron, you should consider it.
Exactly!, 100% agreed. I love watching the way in which Adam's mind works with how he becomes completely focused on a task in order to figure out a solution. It is both fascinating and calming.
I cannot see or say the word "Fragile" in my head without going "It must be Italian."
Same with "ESCAPE"... hey, that's spelled just like "escape!"
CZcams at its best: Watch someone buy something I can't afford and then fix it in a way I wouldn't want to. My brain is happy!
Love how you got more enjoyment out of fixing this than the thing working perfectly.
Well, there's not that much joy in it when it works perfectly and tinkering is its own joy. So yeah.
"Fascination knows no age" --Insert screenshot of Adam's face when he's working on it 😁😁😁
Adam Savage may be the only person on the whole planet saying "I don't want a Newton's cradle" while playing with some marbles :D
I saw hints in the comments of a couple of these, but I'd begin here:
1. In marble run v2, make the rails slightly further apart to presumably elimnate the chance that the marble would escape sideways due to excessive velocity.
2. Before shipping out sets of balls, build a device at the factory to sort thousands of balls by size. Ship only CLOSE sizes with a given set to reduce inconsistency.
3. Adam, you went right into bending rails--but what if the center tower supporting everything was the only thing misaligned in the beginning? Seems like the start of an endless chase for alignment. :-) Aside from a bubble level which wouldn't seem precise enough, could there be a one-use leveling jig for the customer to use following shipping? Then have three feet on the base to tweak with screws (or just bend the tower), but I'd still argue this could be corrected with suggestion (1).
All this is said having never built a marble run, but I've imagined doing so MANY times! :-)
So half way through the tweaking, I would hear my wife's voice telling me, "Why don't you read the manual."
Funnily enough the fact that Adam had to fix a faulty product probably gave him more fun engagement with it than if he just unboxed it and it worked 😂
11:05 That exact moment when the marble from below touches the marble from above and eats its momentum, that's hard to time, nice you got that one on camera.
I bought myself a Marbolous just recently and mine worked fine right out of the box without any need for adjustment. The marbles that were sent were all very uniform in size, so the problem Adam was having was probably not variances in marble size as much as slight alignment issues with the track. Maybe Marbolous got better at their process, but all I can say is mine worked like a charm without any need to tweak the rails. Things like this play in my head well. :)
Having designed one from scratch myself, I found that a source of "random" failures for me was the fact that my marbles (amazon) were not of uniform size. I laser cut a straight track with a slowly widening slot, and ran them down with small bins underneath, thus sorting them by size. then I found the size that worked best and things vastly improved. Your marbles seemed pretty uniform, but worth mentioning for anyone else working on similar projects.
“Here’s the model for Adam, we hand fitted the parts to make sure it works for the video”.
“What do you mean? I just grabbed one off the shelf and shipped it to him yesterday?”
“YOU DID WHAT?!?!”
I imagine this guy being homeless now!
EDIT: perhaps even his wife leaving him and his son refuses to call him daddy XD
@@g60force Yikes..
Yet Adam is beside himself! "Oooo... I have a tool for that!" LOL
I love marble runs even tabletop ones like that. Now it makes me wonder. If Adam would ever make himself a simiilar style marble run or one on a larger scale that he could make run perfectly.
Yeah it'd be great to see Adam make his own. Would show us many small maker skills like soldering and problem solving
*David Morrell - Rolling Ball Sculptures*
You’re welcome
Hey, Boss. This one I can't fix.
- Send it to Tested.
But it's not working?
- He'll fix it for the video.
As a joke?
- Sure.
haha, indeed. 😂
Something that is $315 and supposed to work straight out of the box yet needing any sort of tool by the owner to fix... hard pass.
what would you pay?
Basically none of these work out of the box.
@@zachmoyer1849 current state that Adam received it..... 10dollah MAX!
@@zachmoyer1849 well it was free to someone who is likely in the top 0.1% of enjoyers of this thing, implying that for us regular people it has no value as something that needs to be tinkered with
It's $250 for the design.
To watch Adam in joyful fascination was a lovely moment to see. True to thought, fascination knows no age.
Not sure if I should feel more or less nerdy that Adam also got excited about the cardboard quality and packaging
Having to troubleshoot something that costs over $200 bucks is insane. It should be flawless out of the box.
Me with my $4000 computer. 😒
ooh Adam .... i loved watching your eyes back n forth following the marbles! so fun!
Love the entusiasm and joy in your eyes when it all works out ❤
Watching Adam having to tune it, and then the smile that comes on his face when it's almost right, but not perfect, so he continues to tweak it. As someone with ADHD and a hint of Aspberger's, the delight is awesome. Now I want one!
I used to sell these at work and they would always stop or jump the track at the exact same spots as your did. It’s honestly pretty validating watching Adam make the exact same tweaks to it that I did!
the plier set you where using to adjust the marble run is one of my favorite sets. That set has so many good plier angles to use, worth every penny.
If I had paid for this myself and had this much trouble with it I would've been fuming but watching Adam tinker with it and try to fix it is so entertaining.
The duality of content I suppose. Watching it is great, not so much the struggle if it was me.
Very satisfying sound of the marbles rolling down the track
I think it's because it is such a nice looking object that Adam really took the time to tune it. Nice job.
Honestly, it’s one of the most interesting and unique puzzles out there.
There is so much empathy with Adam watching this.
Watching Adam get mesmerized by a thing you built must be one of the coolest feelings on the planet
The look on your face at 18:06 after all the persistence and tweaking of the marble run. It just shows. You were _that_ kid. You were me.
When I was a kid the science centers and some malls around me had these kinetic pool call sculptures by George Rhoads.
I'd watch them for as long as my parents or grandparents patients would last 😂
Adjustment like this is basically what I do for a living on mechanical packing machines lol. Its so frustrating when only one in 100 fail
Adam tinkering with this marble run is very much up his alley
Videos like this where you're clearly still a kid at heart are some of my favorite!
That company went from the highest of highs with Adam’s appreciation of their packaging, to the lowest of lows for the performance of their product.
Maybe the glass is there to catch marbles that jump off the track.
Ya think?
I think the reason you're creating your Newton's Cradle is the weight of multiple marbles on that section is deflecting the track enough to cause them to stall
This is the perfect gift for you. You get to problem solve and tinker then enjoy.
OMG seeing Adam aged so much reminds me how time flies
I enjoyed Adam's enthusiasm even while tuning the track, and catching a bit of a grin cross his face as he pushed the lever down to load more marbles on the track.
the look on adams face when it would randomly jump the track was amazing
What better example of the dichotemy between "good enough" and "perfect".
I doubt this could ever be tuned to absolute perfection since tuning for 1 ball at a time might result in multi-ball sticking or the weight of 1 causing another to jump the track, etc.
Add in different ball release intervals and the chaos of the real world is shown in all its glory :)
That thing could keep my cat amussed for hours!
That awkward moment when you send something to an influential person hoping for a glowing endorsement, and the item craps the bed. So much for that potential sales bump.
I suggest marking some of the marbles that fall off and see if they are always the same ones with issues.
I love the enjoyment he gets with problem solving!
Frustration knows no bounds 😂
Holding your hand on the side to catch the marbles that fall out even though the glass is on.
Pure beetus
The look of satisfaction at the end is worth all that effort
The “Hey hey hey … doot” moment really resonated with me 🤣
That machine became a perfect toy for any of us like Adam who likes to manipulate the world and devices around them... :) Making a machine work better, or as perfectly as it is capable of is actually hugely satisfying - this machine went up several notches in entertainment level immediately it had a marble stop somewhere! Cheers from Oz, I really like the manual operation, it's not just a battery powered thing that has no more operator input beyond fitting some batteries - mechanisms that do not use batteries are far too under-rated...
I'm way more impressed by the plier 9:44 that Adam uses to fix the toy than by the toy itself. now I need those pliers
Honestly I think that part of the joy of this kind of toy is the satisfaction of tweaking it until you get it to run perfectly and reliably. It's a fidget toy of sorts
This reminds me that you should really do a video with Matthias Wandel. You both deserve visibility to each others' viewers if they aren't already subscribed to one!
Adam, I love your work so much. I think this is one of my favorite videos in the channel, because we can just see your mind working.
As a software developer, I just identified completely with what I do everyday
They need to ship him one, let him fix it and ship it back. Then rinse and repeat. He had way to much fun fixing it. lol.
This is so a one day build. So many things to show off, simply remarkable
Watching Adam work with this thing is more interesting than actually owning one.
Spreading the tracks apart just a bit will help slow the marbles down. That’s a cool piece of art
What a beautiful looking time sink.I love how it is mechanical and not electrical
I think part of the fun is figuring it out and tweaking it. Im going to hint to my wife to get me one for Father's day.
Mythbusters CZcams channel added full episodes and then they quickly removed them, I was planning on binging them this week
Im not sure whats more entertaining, watching the mechanism work or adam watching it to fux inconsistencies haha
The purrrfect toy for Adam... one that he must tinker and fiddle with to make it work how he wants.
I think tuning that marble run would be part of the joy of owning it. Or maybe that's just the tinkerer in me speaking.
My main takeaway from this is that you can wrap the teeth of your pliers with tape to keep from marring a surface with them. I can't believe that never occurred to me.
I could watch marble runs all day long.
Was also thinking about the marketing department going trough all the emotions watching this
I remember having a marble rollercoaster as a kid. You could build it and rebuild it in any pattern you wanted. I could spend hours getting it perfect, just to have to go to bed. In the morning the vinyl track would be out of tune again.
As someone who used to make these, I cringe every time I see Adam just manhandle bending the tracks up and down without any consideration for banking in the rails. In-fact, the problem he's trying to troubleshoot at 7:00 is the result of him eliminating a banked rail just because he haphazardly pushed up and and down on tracks. The "settling" from shipping was actually probably a slight deformation in the banking due to temperature fluctuations in transit, storage, etc. or his table being not level. It only needed slight adjustments - and mostly to the banking - not just yanking entire tracks up and down. These are also HIGHLY influenced by how level they are. Never make adjustments unless you're on a completely level surface.
Is it weird I enjoyed the adjusting more than the toy it self ?
i had a little asmr moment in there
Not at all!
In that case, get yourself one of the old Bandai Spacewarp kits.
This was stressful to watch. I admire your patience. I am definitely not the target demographic for this device.
They say Adam's still down there in the old cave, adjusting his marble run, getting just a little closer every day...
That little bit of sticky that is left from the corner that you initially need to peel up is easily removed by using the sticker itself. Put the sticker back over that small spot and quickly peel it back up a few times and it will remove any left over residue without leaving a single mark.
You could also use something like Goo-Gone but then you also need to thoroughly clean it with glass cleaner afterwards.
Basically, manufacturer sends Adam Savage their product for UX testing, which then involves "Adam Savaging" the product to get it to work. 😂
It is indeed a beatiful object, one that I would certainly enjoy futzing with for hours. Also, I suddenly feel the desire to watch the Marblympics again. Lol.
How many others of us watched to the end waiting to see Adam take the whole thing apart and make a better one with lights
perfect Adam gift. give him something that needs tinkering 😂
Surprised the micrometer did not come out. I'm holding out for the glow in the dark marbles but still fun. Looks like Adam had more fun adjusting than just playing with new toy.
The slow motion feature built into the camera on your phone could have probably helped you identify where the problem is without relying on the naked eye. You could probably even bank all the corners so the marbles go really fast. That is a very cool gadget.
I love the concept. Too bad it needed so many tweaks though. One problem creates another problem that creates another problem...augh.
I think that working in their quality control department would be a very stressful job.
I was waiting for you to insert a screwdriver under the outside of the track and over the inside of the track to bend it upward to give it a little bit more bank in the corners. You ended up doing the same thing with the pliers.
I can see Adam playing with this for hours on end
Couldn't stop playing with my marbolous while watching this video!
As an engineer, I was (almost) screaming at the screen- No! Not that! Bend THAT!!!"
Just like a kid on Christmas morning. Pure joy!!!
I NEED THIS... for.. legitimate reasons... That will become evident.
That is the least aggression I've seen you use against packaging, haha.