Related Work

These sections present a sample of related work to explore further.

Marble Machines

• Jelle’s Marble Runs. YouTube channel with a wide variety of types of marble runs.

  • Marble Run Machine with 11,000 Marbles (YouTube)

  • 100,000 tiny marbles (YouTube)

• woodgears.ca Marble Machines. Many machines, several articles, many photos.

  • Marble adding machine (YouTube)

  • Ryszard #4: Amigorg: Maszyna na kulki nr. 4 (YouTube)

• Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) (YouTube)

• 1972 Nishijin M-11 Pachinko Machine (YouTube)

• Turing Tumble, a marble-powered mechanical computer.

• other related YouTube searches

  • https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marble+run

  • https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pachinko

  • https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pinball

Physical Computing Projects

There are a huge number of projects related to physical computing documented online. The following resources represent a tiny slice of where to look for inspiring examples.

• Daniel Rozin:

  • Weave Mirror

  • Wooden Mirror at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum.

• Daniel Palacios: Waves

• David Bowen: SPACEJUNK

• Found Collective: Three Pieces

• Benjamin Grosser: Interactive Robotic Painting Machine

• Tangible Media Group: Materiable

• Univ. Antwerp: Project ASLAN

• Jesse Stiles: Kinderklavierfeld

• Random International: Rain Room

• Chris Combs

Videos of Related Work

• Arthur Ganson
• Beatbots, Marek Michalowski
• “Butterfly” robot manipulation
• Jacob Tonski
• Jordan Wolfson
• Louis-Philippe Demers
• Norman White
• Penn Mechanisms for Design Course
• Raffaello D’Andrea
• Reuben Margolin
• Simon Penny
• Stelarc
• Zimoun
• Useless Boxes

Other Tutorials and Guides

Electronics and embedded computing.

• SparkFun tutorials

• SparkFun YouTube channel

• Adafruit tutorials

• Adafruit YouTube Channel

• Arduino Playground

DIY Fabric Sensors

• Kobakant DIY: extensive guide to homebrew fabric sensors.

• Stickytape Sensors: quick and simple pressure and bend sensors.

• Handcrafting Sensors: long guide to variety of fabric sensors.

Other Academic Programs

• ITP Physical Computing

• Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab

• Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Lab