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Welcome to Wintergatan Wednesdays 
where I'm trying to finish the Marble Machine X.

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And the plywood parts lying on my work table today

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are going to play a crucial role
in me being able to finish this machine or not.

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I love these pieces. They are really 
tomato sauce umami pieces... [slurping sound]

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By the way, thank you so much for the amazing 
response on last week's update video.

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That was amazing to see. Thank you.

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In today's video, we are going to 
assemble these pieces,

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and try them out to see if they 
work and do what they should do.

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We're also going to meet the amazing 
Marble Machine X CAD team.

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But before that, let's get to some assembly.

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When designing these pieces, I've been using one of my 
favorite trick: I've split the design in the middle.

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So if you check here, if I take this piece and I turn it over 
180 degrees, and I put it together with the other piece.

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That creates a shape that is impossible 
for me to cut on the CNC machine.

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And then I use the same technique 
on these crooked marble paths.

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If I take these two pieces, they are mirrored, 
and I put them together, like so.

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We have a crooked marble path 
inside this plywood block.

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This marble module will alter 
the length of the marble paths,

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controlling that the marbles are flush 
on the top of the marble divider.

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I've designed these so you can open and close 
to keep the different modules locked in place here.

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[drilling]

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[ratchet clicking]

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So these are all unique marble paths with different lengths.

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As you can see, I can just fit four marbles on there.

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This "6" here, you can see that it's crooked.
I've shifted the path, six millimeters...

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You see that space there? That's the whole reason 
for the existence of this part. [chuckles]

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Let's check "14", even more space.

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And the longest path I have is this one, "22",

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and here you can see that I can even fit five marbles.

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So now when I know I have... the longest one can 
accommodate a whole extra marble,

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then I know I have all the combinations I will ever need.

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So every path has its corresponding mirrored path...
like so.

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These modules will later slot in here, 
but first we have to assemble them.

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To align them perfectly, I'm going to use some clamps.

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[drilling sound]

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I hardly feel the edge with my finger here. 
That's perfect!

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Looking at the outside of this module, 
we don't know what curves are inside.

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So I'm gonna mark them with their number 
on a surface that will be hidden when in use.

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I assembled all of them and they're gorgeous.
[chuckles]

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So, if there's something I've learned 
during the Marble Machine X project,

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it's to machine plywood. 
[laughs]

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Let's try them!

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So here we can clearly see how the top marble 
sits lower and lower and lower.

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Let's try them on the docking station.

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This is how it works. It slides in like so, 
and then I can take another one, put it like so.

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And I can change them out to adjust 
the top height of the top marble.

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But, there is a radius from the 
tool of the CNC machine, here.

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And here's a sharp corner and I want this radius here 
to make these a little bit more sturdy.

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So now I need to take off this sharp corner.

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The radius of this fillet is three millimeter.

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So I'm scoring a three millimeter 
line here with my caliper.

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And now I can use the disc sander to sand away 
this corner until I come up to the scored line.

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Here you can see I rounded over the corners 
and now it sits flush in the bottom.

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Perfect!

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All the pieces are ready and I can lower these cam levers,

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so we can test this out and see how it fits.

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This thing is actually gonna go up here on the machine.

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And I can already see a misalignment. Let me show you.

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I slide in the modules; you can then see the misalignment.

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This should be concentric; the parts are too much this way.

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So you can see the exact same effect 
on the top row but even worse.

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Here you hardly can spot the edge of the top edge.

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I'm gonna put shim washers 
both here and between them, here.

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3.14, so I need the two washers to be exactly pi.

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3.14, pi again.

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So you can use pi in this case,

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because whenever you take something 
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the width will always be 3.14...

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It's very useful.

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[drilling]

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I made a maracas!

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[rhythmic rattle]

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[thumping]

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[drilling and rattling]

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That looks super centered,

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and this looks perfect as well.

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Washer stacks has saved us once again,

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and we can now test this thing for real.

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These two PMMA pipes are just a visualization.

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Think of the top of these pipes 
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where the top marble needs to be absolutely flush.

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So we're going to start with "0" and "2", 
just to have something to experiment with.

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So I slot this in like a server, 
this I think is so cool,

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like: shtuck, shtuck, shtuck,
and then we're gonna fill the pipes.

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Do you see that this marble is sticking up, 
and that this marble is sticking up, but much less?

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With my modular system, I can now tweak this.

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So let's start over here with this channel.

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It needs to go down...

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quite a lot. So I'm going to take this one out...

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without dropping all the marbles.

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So we had "2" and now I'm inserting "16".

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Closing...

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Look at that!

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Almost exactly flush!

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I actually want this top marble to be a little bit 
higher. We used "16", let's try "14".

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This is a one-time setup. I would never have to 
do this more than once on the real machine.

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Yeah! Boom, that's perfect! This one is just 
a little bit over. Number "6", here.

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[marbles falling on the table and on the floor]

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Slot this one in...

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Boom, it's flush!

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[poosh]

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This part takes care of a function 
to make the marbles flush all by itself,

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leaving the new marble gates 
free to be much simpler.

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I make all the subassemblies 
more stupid, more reliable.

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If I keep on doing that, the Marble 
Machine X will actually work.

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What is more amazing though, 
is what's going to happen now.

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Because while I am building in my workshop,

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we have a CAD team working on the 
CAD model of the Marble Machine X.

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It's been a huge disappointment for me personally,

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that I haven't been able to keep... update 
the CAD model of this project.

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So while back I asked people on the discord server 
if they wanted to be part of a CAD team.

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This project has been going on in the background 
for the last four months,

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and it's just filled with amazing, amazing people.

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So right off the bat, I just want to say thanks to 
everyone who are part of the CAD team.

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And especially, you're gonna meet Maureen 
from Meticulae Designs youtube channel.

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Maureen is the defender of the Kinetic Fingers,

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and I asked Maureen if she could make a little video

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introducing the CAD team.

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So after this successful try I'm gonna 
hand it over to Maureen.

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Check out her youtube channel, Meticulae Designs,

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and... enjoy!

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[large gong sound]

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Maureen: - Three months ago... 
a butterfly made a list.

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[large gong sound]

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Three months ago... 
the butterfly put out a call for help.

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[large gong sound]

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And three months ago... the call was 
answered by an army of volunteers.

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But did they know what they were getting into?

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[♪ unreleased/The Ondophone Prototype 1.1 ♪]

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Inside that innocent-looking simple little
row, a great beast was hidden.

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The beast was born from software 
limitations, collaborator restrictions,

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and the abandonment of its tracking system.

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It threatened madness, despair, and
hopelessness on anyone attempting to tame it.

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But the thousand arms of the volunteers
were not deterred.

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They bared their spoons, because they knew 
the secret to conquering this beast.

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How do you eat an elephant?

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[♪ unreleased/The Ondophone Prototype 1.1 ♪]

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Hi, I'm Maureen! I'm here to talk
about the CAD MMX Project

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and share what the CAD team's
been up to in our first months.

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When Martin announced this project on discord,
dozens of CAD modelers immediately jumped on board.

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By now we have over 200 people signed
up to follow the CAD team discord channel.

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But finding volunteers turned out 
to be the easy part.

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The difficulty in this project lies with the complexity 
of the CAD model, pushing Fusion 360 past its limits.

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And with the management of thousands of parts
designed by multiple people over a number of years,

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many of which have been physically changed 
on the machine, but not updated in CAD.

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And the only reliable resource 
we have to track all of this

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are the MMX build videos Martin's made.

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So Martin wasn't kidding when he said that
the biggest challenge to this project was

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finding a project manager, 
because instead of just one,

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we currently have six managers of the CAD team.

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Some of them have been members
of the e-team for quite a while,

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while others are new to the team.

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Tim Keller's our project leader
and liaison with Martin.

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Tim Mitchell, Will Francis, and David Lewis
are our Quality Control team.

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Tim & Will make sure the parts 
our team members are working on

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match the modeling and defeaturing
guidelines set forth in our instructions,

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and David oversees assembly of the approved
parts into our new Master Assembly.

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Jordan Bowden is new to the e-team.

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He's an Airtable wizard who built our new database

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and manages all our assets.

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And I'm Maureen Krauth. I'm new to the e-team too,

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and my job is maintaining our documentation 
and People Management.

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The project is broken into two phases.
[♪ unreleased/Testing E-Bow on Ondophone ♪]

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In Phase 1, we're simplifying
the CAD model inside Fusion 360

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by removing all fasteners, defeaturing
internal geometry, and remodeling parts efficiently,

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to keep the 3D model
computationally light and easy to load.

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At the same time, we're bringing
the CAD model up-to-date

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so that it matches the physical machine.

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When Phase 1 is complete
we will release the CAD model

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to the MMX fan community for free,

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and if the ideas people are sharing on 
discord already are any indication,

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there'll be a lot of cool things
coming out after this project is done.

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In Phase 2 we will be rebuilding the CAD MMX
from scratch, likely using another program.

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We will closely scrutinize each and every
part, and redesign everything we can

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to be more easily manufacturable, so Martin can
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that don't require improvisations or manual CNC-ing.

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Along with these phases, we're recreating
the PBS inside a program called Airtable,

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to track everything we're doing.

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This new database has the old one in it,

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along with other data crucial for our team,

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including time-coded reference for which parts
are seen in which episodes,

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and flowcharts mapping out the 
power train and marble flow.

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Ultimately we'll create a bill of materials
that tracks every single part

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and piece of hardware for Phase 2,

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with details for machining and assembly.

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[♪ unreleased/Cyber Bass Funkalizer ♪]

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To start this project, Martin and Tim Keller
went through the whole machine together,

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sorting the machine into roughly 
100 logical assembly groupings,

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which make more sense now 
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than the older organization of the
design-as-you-go PBS system.

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Martin's done walk-around videos for us, explaining 
what's included in each of the new assembly groupings.

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We then dig through the old e-team folders 
in Fusion to find any existing CAD models,

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and bring them into our new team project.

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Any part that's been changed from its 
original design will need to be updated,

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while other parts were never designed in CAD
and have to be modeled from scratch.

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Every week on Wednesdays we have a team meeting
inside discord where we go over the parts we'll be assigning,

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and answer questions people have 
about what they're working on.

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And then we watch the Wintergatan Wednesday 
video together as a team. Hi guys!

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And collectively freak out any time Martin gets out 
the angle grinder for a part we've already done.

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Martin: - Time for the angle grinder.
CAD team members: - Ooh... [chuckles]

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Tim Keller: - Another part goes from 
completed back to not completed.

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Andrey Shur: - Yeees! 
[laughs]

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Andrey Shur: - Angle grind me, Martin! 
[laughs]

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Our volunteers span the entire globe,
speak 19 different languages,

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and have a range of experience levels
in Fusion 360 and other CAD programs

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from absolute newbie to experienced master.

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Because there are only so many parts to go around
and we want to try to include everyone,

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we've come up with a partnership system where we assign 
more experienced Seniors with less experienced Juniors,

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and team people up based on how their assemblies 
connect to each other inside the machine.

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These groups are overseen by team leaders,

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who look for alignment issues
as they test-fit the parts together,

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and we also have a Status Trackers team that keeps 
the organizational side of things running smoothly.

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They ensure everything is kept updated 
between discord, Fusion, and Airtable,

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so we can track the status
of every part of the model at any time.

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So far, 74 team members
have been assigned to work on

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80 different parts of the CAD MMX.

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Once the assignments have been announced,
the volunteers figure out if those models

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match the video reference or need to be updated.

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Martin measures specific bits of the machine

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that our team members request for accuracy.

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They update their models, defeature them,

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and submit them to be checked by Quality Control.

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After enough parts in an assembly group 
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they're ready for the team leaders
to begin Assembly Check.

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Aligning the power train to the base frame
was the first step in this process.

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David's created a master skeleton
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and the team leaders look for alignment issues
and figure out if everything's working together.

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The Assembly Check process can take a while,

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because everything is connected to
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checked against not only what it's mounted
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Bite by bite, we're making good progress,

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and we'll keep working our way
all the way up to the top.

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Three months ago, none of this existed.

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Three months ago, Martin had no idea if people
would even want to tackle this monster project.

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And three months ago, that elephant
had no idea what was coming for it.

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[♪ unreleased/ Cyber Bass Funkalizer ♪]

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[chuckles]

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Martin: - I'm laughing so much right now;

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I'm picturing the CAD team

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in these live-viewing parties of the episodes,

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like when I put out the angle grinder
[laughs]

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and someone has, like,

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CADed the piece down to perfection

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and they just laugh about it!

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That says everything; that we're a...

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huge club of delayed gratification.

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So, check out Maureen's videos on the Kinetic Fingers,

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and thank you, Maureen, for making this video.

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My favorite part of the CAD project is the Phase 2,

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where we're actually going to redesign
all the mistakes on this machine. [chuckles]

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Where we can, like, together,
me and the whole CAD team,

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everyone can, like, pitch in 
ideas for simplifications.

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I'm thinking, for example, 
I wanna skip the magnet lifts. [chuckles]

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They're causing so much trouble. Everyone told me 
from the beginning: "don't do magnet lifting".

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I wanted this cool visual effect.

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I think we should redesign the MMY to have 
a classical marble machine lift technique.

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We can then skip the whole demag wheel.

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Sorry, you who have CADed the demag wheel!

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But basically, the MMY is going to be, like,
the machine as I should have done it, right?

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So, the original Marble Machine
became a prototype for this.

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This is the prototype for the MMY.

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So, potentially, on the world tour,

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I will play live on the MMY. That can happen.

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At the main rudder of this gigantic 
cruise ship is Tim Keller.

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So, you know him from
Tim Keller and The Broken Endmills.

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Apparently, they changed name of the 
band to The Elephant Eaters. [laughs]

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Tim Keller has been a huge part
of the whole Marble Machine X project,

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and is now heading this CAD team
and is doing an awesome job out of it.

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Let's check in on the latest update on the 
CAD project from Tim Keller himself.

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Tim: - The update on the CAD project is 
"my team rocks". My team is... is so cool.

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It makes it easy to be the leader of a team
when your team just is all self-starters,

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and we're working on something where 
everyone, like, really wants to be part of it.

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It makes leading a team like that
really easy and really fun.

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There's so many people who are 
part of the discord community.

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I've been able to go and find people who 
look like... "Oh, this person is pretty engaged",

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"this person has a knowledge base or a skill base
that I think might be interesting".

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Have a couple of conversations with them, 
bring them onto the team,

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and all of a sudden they're doing amazing things 
that I wouldn't have thought of. And I love it.

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Early in the Wintergatan series, you guys had
an episode on the PBS system, right?

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That Chris had developed with Martin.

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This is the PBS system, and the PBS 
system was basically a number line, right?

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So as the numbers went up, 
you were able to categorize

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and get all the different parts
kind of into groups along that number line.

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This is a database, and the company Airtable

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actually gave us this for free,
which was awesome of them.

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They didn't ask for anything in return,
which was super awesome.

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And you can go down all the way
as deep as you want on these things,

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all the way back to, let's see...
vibraphone resonator pipes.

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You can see, these are episodes...

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where he's talked about the vibraphone resonator pipes.

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Here are... time stamps, transcriptions... [laughs]

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of what's happening in that episode. 
I mean, it...

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And this isn't... this isn't all just the software,

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we have a team of people who are doing this, 
and putting this information in, right?

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Garbage in, garbage out.

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The fact that this community is doing this, and...

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and especially, you know, as 
someone who gets to lead this team,

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I actually don't know who's doing this, right?

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This is being managed by someone 
who Maureen is managing,

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And it's all taking care of itself, because... 
because the community is so just energetic

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and willing to be... to play some small role in it.

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It's... super cool.

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When we get into phase two of this project, we're 
actually going to be doing it using a master skeleton

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of the machine where we have 
all the key components laid out.

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Where each axis of each, you know,
linear shaft has to be,

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where the mating points of 
all the gears are going to be,

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and where all of the different paths
that the marbles could take through.

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And we're gonna start with a skeleton like that,
and then design the machine around it.

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That's a big change to the way that Martin
originally designed it with Fusion 360.

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Fusion 360 is what's called a top-down modeling 
environment, where you design individual parts,

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and then you can kind of break them up into assemblies.

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Things like Solidworks and some other ones
are bottom-up, where you can say:

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Hey, this is the overall architecture of the... 
of what you're building,

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and now let me make parts 
that fit into that architecture.

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When you are making something as complicated as the MMX, 
you really do need a bottom up environment,

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which is why in phase two, we're gonna be going to 
a more professional software platform like that.

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So there are several kind of cool VR projects 
that are out there. There are...

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One is a guy who actually did
his own simplified Marble Machine CAD.

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Brian Harms: - Hi Martin, I have created a simplified 
version of the MMX that you can actually play in VR.

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Ah! Forgot the crank downstairs,
let me go grab that. Oh no, Wilson...

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Sometimes when he drinks he tries to 
CNC an army of evil Wilsons.

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All right, let's slap this on the machine.
[plop]

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[music slightly off rhythm]
[♪ Wintergatan: Marble Machine ♪]

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There it is. I hope you liked it!

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[strange laughter]
What was that?

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[high pitched Wilson noises]
Evil Wilson #1: Attack! Let's go!

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Brian: - Oh ho! Not again.
[Wilson laughs]

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Evil Wilson #1: Now you'll never finish this project!
Evil Wilson #2: Oh, sick burn evil Wilson!

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Tim: - The model that we spit out
at the end of this will be de-featured,

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it'll have all of the relevant parts,
it will be cosmetically accurate.

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It'll be, you know, the real machine.

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And people will be able to do with that digital 
asset, whatever the heck they want.

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There is so much you could do...

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We could make literally a playable 
virtual reality Marble Machine.

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Yeah, Martin is always very thankful and very... 
very keen to express his gratitude to these people,

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but we're all just doing it 'cause it's fun. And...

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I love that I get a place to play with 
people who are so generous,

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and who are so smart, and just gifted 
that the community itself is rewarding.

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I find myself just chatting with, you know, 
Maureen and with Jordan and David Lewis, it's...

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We're our own family and if Martin got 
hit by a Marble Machine, you know,

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two weeks from today, we'd probably 
still be doing this, right?

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The community has its own rewards, 
and I love being part of it.

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Martin: - What can I say?

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[Martin singing]
[♪ Tegan and Sara: Everything Is Awesome ♪]

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♪ Everything is awesome, ♪
♪ everything is cool when you're part of a team. ♪

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My main intention with the discord server

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was for like-minded people to have a platform 
where we could meet each other.

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That's exactly what is happening right now.

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And I mean, if there's any tech businesses 
out there in the world looking for amazing talent,

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lurking around in the Wintergatan discord server 
might be one of your best bets. [chuckles]

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I loved how you described the team members, Tim,

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and how many people are just like, 
taking their own initiatives.

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The attacking Wilson's... [chuckles] 
Brian, that was absolutely genius!

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I was wondering why my stash 
of Dragon tears was empty...

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I mean, the sky's the limit when it comes to digital, 
so maybe I can prototype MMY in virtual reality,

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so I can basically maybe even 
compose on MMY in virtual reality.

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Before we actually order 
the parts to be manufactured.

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We should make a whole like, VR game,

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where the purpose is to, like,
never finish the Marble Machine X.

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Like, the Marble Machine X is in the corner.

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It builds by itself and you have to 
procrastinate, so it doesn't get finished.

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Tim Keller has his own youtube channel, so be sure 
to check out Tim Keller's youtube channel.

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And if you wanna connect with 
any of these wonderful people,

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just head over to the Wintergatan 
discord server. They're right there.

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We just launched a new playlist 
on the Wintergatan youtube channel

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with all the videos from 
Marble Machine X collaborators.

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I don't want to miss a single video on this playlist.

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So if you know a video that 
should be in this playlist and it's not,

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please contact Joanna from 
Team Wintergatan on discord server.

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And Joanna: Welcome to the team, by the way!

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A while back we asked for Wintergatan 
community submissions.

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And we showed some of them, 
but then the building took over.

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But there is still coming a lot of cool submissions,

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so we thought we should take some of 
our favorites, and show them here,

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as a tribute to the Wintergatan community.

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[chiptune cover of ♪ Wintergatan: Marble Machine ♪]

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Simon: - Hi, Martin. I'm Simon from a tiny 
youtube channel, called Applied Procrastination,

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where instead of doing stuff we should have been doing, 
we've been using our last couple of years

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building an overly complicated art project. 
And we love what you do.

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We never even considered making
youtube videos until we saw yours.

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So we followed your formula and made an 
open build vlog where people can follow along,

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and even replicate our machine for free if they want to.

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So this is our tribute to you and to overly complex machines. 
Thanks for being an inspiration!

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[chiptune cover of ♪ Wintergatan: Marble Machine ♪]

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Martin: - I have no clue how they made
that black fluid go into letters... [chuckles]

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Applied procrastination, you have the best youtube 
channel name of whole youtube. Check them out.

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Thanks everyone for sending in 
the community submissions.

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I can't wait until this machine is done, 
and I can kind of come out of this dark hole,

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and meet all of you on the world tour.

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During the spring, I was... 
literally thinking of giving up

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and like, giving up is absolutely not an option.

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I believe in this project. 
Even more after seeing all this.

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Thank you, everyone!
[poosh]

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Tim: - I've been waiting just to 
talk to you for so long, you know,

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take my revenge on you for calling me... 
calling me a huge liar.

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I haven't forgotten that, by the way. 
Hannes: - Oh, no! [chuckles]

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Martin: - You know what Tim Keller 
told me the other day?

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He said that the Marble Machine X 
is not sunken cost fallacy.

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I was so happy to hear. [chuckles]

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Hannes: - Okay, he's a good liar, though...

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But, what you missed is 
that what I actually told him,

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was that the Marble Machine 
is not a sunk cost.

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It's an asset. Right?

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And... it is, it's a brand, it's all these other things.

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But it's... it's an asset like a racehorse is an asset, right?

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It only makes money when you ride it.
You have to feed it.

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So it's the kind of asset that you don't own.
It owns you. [lauging]

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So it's actually... It's actually worse 
than if it was a sunk cost.

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It's an asset that completely dominates your 
entire life. And if you let it go, you have nothing.

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[laughs]

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So, if Martin wants cause to be... 
you know, despondent and depressed

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about the Marble Machine X dominating his life, it's that:

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It's that he cannot get off this horse.