RePlay7575 (September 5, 2008 at 2:10 pm)

LOL!awesome :)

xbox33781 (September 5, 2008 at 3:18 am)

WHAAA!!?

rockpapscissors (September 4, 2008 at 5:33 am)

Seriously, this is one of the best videos on Youtube. It's actually interesting and fun to watch, and it doesn't have some teenager blabbering on about nothing.I'm wondering if it would be feasible to make a multiplication machine. I think the goal should be to eventually have a marble graphing calculator. Wouldn't it be so great to bring one of these into an exam?

unotwat (September 4, 2008 at 3:00 am)

i can see this being developed to make a marble run computer. using falling marbles instead of a computer relaying signals through a computer board.wich in turn could be attachted at the base to several signal pickup's. wich connects to a screen that is run in a simialar fashion using coloured marbles instead of pixalsif you like this idea then give it a thumbs up

torpcomics (September 3, 2008 at 11:23 pm)

Surely the machine is more powerful and easier than adding fingers together? And besides, calculators owe their existence to these analogue ancestors.

nupanick (September 3, 2008 at 8:53 pm)

the kind we all use, of course. When you add 24 + 67 in a calculator, it displays 71. That is, it adds up all the numbers and sorts it into 7 tens and 1 one. When you read the number, you are mentally adding 70 + 1, but this doesn't seem very hard because you are used to doing this with decimal-based numbers. If we were taught binary before decimal, it would seem weird to group numbers in tens and we would write the number 71 as 1000111 and mentally add the numbers 1000000 + 100 + 10 + 1.

GrimDesignator (September 3, 2008 at 7:51 pm)

very good

PiterAnnema (September 3, 2008 at 7:18 pm)

You don't get the point of the machine, it isn't made to actually calculate the outcome. It only simplifies the calculation by sorting all the numbers.

sou3789 (September 3, 2008 at 5:25 pm)

looks cool but a useless piece of shit...wut kind of adding machine requires u to add at the end?

Fushen1 (September 3, 2008 at 3:45 pm)

that's super sweet!