Back in 2007, Animusic, a 3-D animation company that creates visualizations of various MIDI-based music, created “The dream pipe”. Basically it was pingpong balls bouncing around in every direction. *If you haven’t watched it by now, here’s the link*

Then Intel, yes the company, sort of got jealous and decided to recreate the pipe dream in real life. So in 2011, Intel introduced its version of “the pipe dream” using an array of their finest computer sensors and processors, and thousands of pingpong balls. Although that idea was, theoretically, cool as f***, and the way it looked was just so mesmerizing, it didn’t sound like you’d think it would, majorly because of the background noises generated by the air guns that shot the balls, and the unpredictable trajectories of some of the balls (which you’d think the creators had taken into account, but they didn’t). It’s a great effort, especially that all of it was automated through god-knows-how-much code! *yes if you haven’t seen that either, here’s the link*

Queue Wintergatan. Talk about artistic creativity and ingenuity! Wintergatan is a swedish born band of musicians and instrumental visionaries (is that a term? it should be). They haven’t amassed a big following (YET!) but here’s what they did:

Allow me to tell you what this is. THIS is countless months of design and planning, and 14 months of intensive hand labour. Upon completion, and numerous testing (and alot of fails and tweaks, that’s for sure), the hand powered marble machine was ready for its debut. The released youtube video (released 1st of March) has gotten over 2 million views so far. This will certainly not end there. Expect more from these guys! *You can check their other stuff here, including the building and testing processes*

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