Gravitrack is a fantastic new build-it-yourself desktop-scale marble machine kit from our friends at SolarBotics, and available now at our store.
Gravitrack is available in two versions: A no-soldering battery-powered version (shown above), or a soldering-required solar version. We also still carry the original SolarBotics Marble Machines, in battery and solar flavors.
Ooooh….
Any plan to sell a digital version? Or at least one in perspex?
Digital?
And now for a marble powered one..
Does anybody know if there’s a formal design method that comes up with all those cool pivots and oddly shaped levers? In other words, transforming a rotational motion into a complex path…
Here’s one neat tool for designing linkages: http://blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mechanism-designer-and-simulator/
wow, it works so sexy