<story><title>Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guhcampos</author><text>I follow him and coincidentally (or not, maybe there&amp;#x27;s some correlation with this coming back to HN?) he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany.&lt;p&gt;According to him, he realized he&amp;#x27;s been trying to engineer a functionally perfect machine this whole time, and that&amp;#x27;s pointless, because it&amp;#x27;s never been about the machine function, but about the artistic expression of creating such machine.&lt;p&gt;From this, he derived that instead of optimizing the machine for function, he&amp;#x27;ll begin optimizing for fun, looks and generally the &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; of the machine. I&amp;#x27;m excited to see what&amp;#x27;s going to happen from now on.</text></item><item><author>datadrivenangel</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s on his third iteration of the machine because he keeps over engineering parts and starting over, in a way which is simultaneously impressive and heartbreaking.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>According to the artist himself, this video is a bit misleading as the majority of what you hear in this video is not from the machine. There were some fundamental flaws in the first designs, he almost gave up on the whole project, but he&amp;#x27;s recently come back with plans for a whole new version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s very open about the whole process, it&amp;#x27;s quite interesting from an engineering perspective.&lt;p&gt;Designing the marble divider: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Testing the new fly wheel: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starky</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m happy to hear he is finally realizing the error of his previous decision, but this should not be an epiphany. So many of us that followed the project told him exactly that when he decided to throw out the MMX and start over. I still worry that he hasn&amp;#x27;t learned the lesson that &amp;quot;perfection is the enemy of good&amp;quot; and will use yet another change of direction&amp;#x2F;method to avoid actually finishing something.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guhcampos</author><text>I follow him and coincidentally (or not, maybe there&amp;#x27;s some correlation with this coming back to HN?) he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany.&lt;p&gt;According to him, he realized he&amp;#x27;s been trying to engineer a functionally perfect machine this whole time, and that&amp;#x27;s pointless, because it&amp;#x27;s never been about the machine function, but about the artistic expression of creating such machine.&lt;p&gt;From this, he derived that instead of optimizing the machine for function, he&amp;#x27;ll begin optimizing for fun, looks and generally the &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; of the machine. I&amp;#x27;m excited to see what&amp;#x27;s going to happen from now on.</text></item><item><author>datadrivenangel</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s on his third iteration of the machine because he keeps over engineering parts and starting over, in a way which is simultaneously impressive and heartbreaking.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>According to the artist himself, this video is a bit misleading as the majority of what you hear in this video is not from the machine. There were some fundamental flaws in the first designs, he almost gave up on the whole project, but he&amp;#x27;s recently come back with plans for a whole new version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AbmMnu-NpaI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s very open about the whole process, it&amp;#x27;s quite interesting from an engineering perspective.&lt;p&gt;Designing the marble divider: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Y83I8mLKufo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Testing the new fly wheel: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=8ouH21npL58&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>&amp;gt; he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany&lt;p&gt;He does this every year or so. He always has some big takeaway – engineering for fun, getting back to enjoying his work, getting anything finished so he can go on tour which he enjoys...&lt;p&gt;I followed the channel for a few years because I wanted to see a machine come together, but I realised over time that the machine is not the point. It&amp;#x27;s a self-help channel, it&amp;#x27;s about productivity, burnout, and the process of engineering and design.&lt;p&gt;If that&amp;#x27;s what you want, great. But I get enough pontificating about engineering process in my job, and I was there for the machine, so I gave up. If he ever goes on tour I&amp;#x27;ll be there, but I&amp;#x27;m not holding my breath.</text></comment>