Eli Whitney Museum

3D Marble Maze

Year: 2016
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After seeing a game at a toy shop while traveling in Switzerland, I was inspired to use the materials at the museum to create a variation of a vertical maze.A common problem with marble mazes is that the marbles often flies off the game and gets lost. To solve this, I added a wedge in-between the front and back boards so a marble rolls down and into a drilled divot and remains in place after an unsuccessful attempt at guiding the marble. This model shows a perilous mountain climb with places where the marble can get stuck on physical items or fall into the holes, but the project allows for endless variations.