Marble Adding Machine

The marble adding machine adds 6 bit positive binary integers.

Marble adding machine.

My marble adding machine had its roots with an automated lego marble machine that i had built many years ago. Lego and marbles make a great combination because most marbles fit nicely in the space of a two by two stud lego piece 16x16 mm. Marble math is a fun and educational activity for children learning addition. I had built an elevating device and was adding more and more crazy and noisy ways for the marbles to.

More pictures of marble machine 2 just incase you wanted to see more. Have fun with this addition game for kids. It had occurred to me that perhaps with an insane amount of perseverance it might be possible to build a whole computer that runs on marbles. Drawn plans for many of the marble machine projects on this website.

Marble machine 3 the modular marble machine. Make it fall in the first output if there is two marbles. There are five different levels of addition and a fun bonus activity after each level. Children must score 80 or greater to advance to the next level.

It takes a binary integer as input adds it using binary arithmetic to the binary integer present in its memory and then presents. In general it s fun to subtract 1 from numbers because nearly the same number results but with all the original marbles dumped and replaced by new marbles. Make one of them fall in the second output. Michael schulteiss marble machine a very elaborate hand cranked machine.

Each of these plans has an instruction showing the detail assembly of the project. Audio helps children understand how to count and play the activity. If there is one marble. That second marble lands on another flip which block the first one.

On payment you will be able to download your plans immediately or you will receive an e mail from us with instructions to complete your download. It actually wasn t too hard to make one. That is numbers when expressed in decimal form are between 0 and 63 of course adding zero is not interesting there s nothing to do. Marble binary adding machine a binary adding machine that operates on marbles.

Adding 1 to 1 is the same operation as adding 63 to 63 above and it results in 111110 the 6 bit two s complement representation for 2. Marble machine 2 unleashes a torrent of marbles. The first marble flip a little piece of cardboard so if there is a second marble it fills fall in a hole.