Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Can Lego play the drums? [video]

youtube.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 23 posts

Re: Can Lego play the drums? [video]

#2

Post by ClearAndPresent »

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it.

Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos

Re: Can Lego play the drums? [video]

#3

Post by tromp »

ClearAndPresent wrote: post #2

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos

I love its mechanical-only design; that really is a piece of musical art. And at 1:30 in the video, it looks like LEGO is used for the encoding pegs (also possibly some gears and supports at 1:36).

Someone else made an entire version in LEGO [1] [2] but without marbles and playbacking to/covering the original:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP9x3t5HUa4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCsgpq9e2AE

Re: Can Lego play the drums? [video]

#4

Post by smusamashah »

ClearAndPresent wrote: post #2

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos

https://youtu.be/WN90HYiFpAw?t=736 His recent update is good watch.

He learned after 3 years that he made a few things too complicated because 'it looked cool' and he should have instead kept the design 'dumb'.

Re: Can Lego play the drums? [video]

#6

Post by ben174 »

ClearAndPresent wrote: post #2

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos

Don't forget Animusic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCIpKAIFyo

Re: Can Lego play the drums? [video]

#7

Post by pbronez »

smusamashah wrote: post #4
ClearAndPresent wrote: post #2

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos

https://youtu.be/WN90HYiFpAw?t=736 His recent update is good watch. He learned after 3 years that he made a few things too complicated because 'it looked cool' and he should have instead kept the design 'dumb'.

His journey post v1 has been fascinating to watch. I hope he eventually makes a full length documentary based on his vlogs. It’s a great story about the relationship between ideas, execution, business, and real life in the context of the modern maker economy.

Re: Can Lego play the drums? [video]

#10

Post by wodenokoto »

ClearAndPresent wrote: post #2

Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Martin is working on V3 of the machine. Plenty of updates on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan/videos

Is he? Last update on V3 was 5 months ago. Last update from him was 3 months ago about a new studio.
Post reply on HN