Hey ! After 3 domino videos, Marbomino is back ;) In this project, I use those little magnets that can be used to make cubes and others geometric figures, I think the name is "Neocube".
It's really impressive how many tricks you can do with that, at the beginning I didn't think that I could make a whole project based on those magnets, but finally, it was pretty easy and I think there is still lots of cool tricks to discover !
I like this kind of video when I can't do what I want, I'm forced to think of tricks with magnets in that case. It's the opposite of my video "Random screen link" when I just build all the thing that come to my mind, constraints are good for the creativity it allows to find original tricks that no one has thought (I think, because I've never seen something like this on youtube). It reminds me my project "The New Trick" after rubber bands, let's use magnets ;)
I think this project is the best one of the three I did with marbles, but there are still a little problem : the lighting.
Because now that I'm in a small appartement for studies, there is only one window on my room, it's not a big one and I don't have powerfull lights. That's why some of the ideas in this screen link seems to be darker than others, you can litteraly see the difference when a cloud passes over the sun (and it's happend 2-3 times).
It's also the reasons why I made a project with marbles, in a small room it's easier than dominoes, even when you have a long table !
- Why the video has taken so long to come out ?
Yeah, I know ... but let me explain, because there's many reasons :
First, I had to buy marbles and magnets on ebay, I waited 2 weeks for the delivery. Then I made a first screen link but it was bad because of a format problem on my camera. The movie was jerky and the lighting was terrible because I tried to use artificial lights (very bad idea ).
Also, this screen link was supposed, at the beginning, to be a big machine in one take on my table, but I give up after 50 fails, maybe RGM is not my thing. Maybe I just need to try with more reliable tricks ^^
And the last reason : I'm lazy and perfectionnist, with those two things it's hard to finish a project, because I have this idea in my mind since 3 months maybe, and I work really hard for only 4 minutes at the end (domino builder is a hard job) .But trust me there is more work in this project than you can see in this video, because of how many times I start from scratch.
You can see that this description is bigger than in my other videos, because this time I had lots of things to say, and I realize that it's better for you to know the background of a project.
If you read all this description, thank you and sorry for my bad english, I'm not used to write long texts like this, but I hope it was interesting and I hope you like my video ;)
Hey ! After 3 domino videos, Marbomino is back ;) In this project, I use those little magnets that can be used to make cubes and others geometric figures, I think the name is "Neocube".
It's really impressive how many tricks you can do with that, at the beginning I didn't think that I could make a whole project based on those magnets, but finally, it was pretty easy and I think there is still lots of cool tricks to discover !
I like this kind of video when I can't do what I want, I'm forced to think of tricks with magnets in that case. It's the opposite of my video "Random screen link" when I just build all the thing that come to my mind, constraints are good for the creativity it allows to find original tricks that no one has thought (I think, because I've never seen something like this on youtube). It reminds me my project "The New Trick" after rubber bands, let's use magnets ;)
I think this project is the best one of the three I did with marbles, but there are still a little problem : the lighting.
Because now that I'm in a small appartement for studies, there is only one window on my room, it's not a big one and I don't have powerfull lights. That's why some of the ideas in this screen link seems to be darker than others, you can litteraly see the difference when a cloud passes over the sun (and it's happend 2-3 times).
It's also the reasons why I made a project with marbles, in a small room it's easier than dominoes, even when you have a long table !
- Why the video has taken so long to come out ?
Yeah, I know ... but let me explain, because there's many reasons :
First, I had to buy marbles and magnets on ebay, I waited 2 weeks for the delivery. Then I made a first screen link but it was bad because of a format problem on my camera. The movie was jerky and the lighting was terrible because I tried to use artificial lights (very bad idea ).
Also, this screen link was supposed, at the beginning, to be a big machine in one take on my table, but I give up after 50 fails, maybe RGM is not my thing. Maybe I just need to try with more reliable tricks ^^
And the last reason : I'm lazy and perfectionnist, with those two things it's hard to finish a project, because I have this idea in my mind since 3 months maybe, and I work really hard for only 4 minutes at the end (domino builder is a hard job) .But trust me there is more work in this project than you can see in this video, because of how many times I start from scratch.
You can see that this description is bigger than in my other videos, because this time I had lots of things to say, and I realize that it's better for you to know the background of a project.
If you read all this description, thank you and sorry for my bad english, I'm not used to write long texts like this, but I hope it was interesting and I hope you like my video ;)All my projects in Domino challengeKaplamino2024-02-29 | I participate with a friend in the domino challenge show in France during the summer 2021, so here are all the projects I built during the show !
Our team lost (3rd place) on the Eiffel tower, because it was too complex so we ran out of time to build the other parts (only 5h for this)
For the big final they bring back all the eliminated teams to help, and we had 3 times more space to build. My team focused mainly on the last one with all the tricky parts and chess.
If you don't understand french don't worry, the dominoes are the most interesting part ;)
0:00 - Ghost train 1:26 - Rainbow valley 3:00 - Rio Carnaval 4:20 - Eiffel Tower 5:21 - Toy worldThe Toilet MachineKaplamino2024-01-30 | The sequel that no one expectedHigh-Tech KAPLA TricksKaplamino2020-12-04 | Watch the fails here : youtube.com/watch?v=uKXH_MOxGr8
After all my marble videos and chain reactions in one take: I'm back with the screenlink format. It allows me to test riskier techniques and make longer videos. And for the first time it's a 100% Kapla project, inspired by @KaplaBen here : youtube.com/watch?v=KBcEVPxVrZ0
Until now I only had 400 planks but I contacted the company and they sent me a big box with thousands of Kaplas :p I also personally bought red and blue Kaplas to make the project more colorful and easy to understand. The idea for the colors is that white Kapla = structure, blue = Domino and red = mechanism or important part (approximately).
I tried to use only big and impressive structures, which you can't do with normal sized dominoes. Let's talk about the tricks in order of appearance :
- Zig-zag Inversion : there is tape on all the blue kaplas to make them slide more, because the paint rubs too much and stops the kaplas from going down.The lever part is ultra tricky, it has to be perfectly placed to work in both ways. But once the right height is found it seems to work every time.
- Double Inversion: I didn't think that was possible x) . As you can imagine, the hardest part is the first descent. The kaplas must have exactly the right angle. If you look carefully there is a hole underneath the 2 horizontal red kaplas, to prevent the vibrations of the shock from making the tilted blue kaplas from falling early.
- Spiral stairs: like in the @KaplaBen screenlink but higher, with colors, and with barriers to prevent the kaplas from falling on each other which caused me some failures. It doesn't happen in his video but I still don't understand how, maybe luck?
- Double wallback: Probably the clip that failed the most, because the wall was too strong with pillars at 45°. With this version with all pillars aligned it seems to work all the time. I think it's even possible to do triple/quadruple/infinite wallback with this structure ! Each wall wants to fall because of the weight at its extremity (3 horizontal kaplas) but it can't because of the weight of the wall above
- Double slide (there is lots of double in this video) : I thought it was a fun challenge to design a multi-use element with kaplas. It almost failed, the red block almost touched the final blue line !
- Implosion towers : the way it was supposed to fall down is like the first tower, many kaplas fall at the bottom of it and the base breaks. Not really what happened but it looks cool. Don't build this trick, it's not reliable and based on luck. Sometimes the tower will not fall or a kapla will be ejected through the tower and hit the next blue line.
- Square slide : of course there is tape everywhere on the red kapla to make it slide easily
- KAPLApult : I cheated about my 100% pure Kapla project because of tape once again. It was impossible to make it work without a big block like that, all the kaplas need to apply the force at the exact same time. If you know how to build it without tape, feel free to leave me a comment below ;) It almost failed (especially the 2nd one). Yes it's unreliable and impossible to know where the red kapla is going to fall. To make it work you need a bigger target zone.
- Zig-zag towers : they are so much in sync that it's troubling
- Shockwave : I used a trick like that in my collab with Hevesh5. But this time it's more reliable (worked on the first try) because the shock is big enough, thanks to tape
- Falling inside the tower : I like how it goes up without any kapla falling on the ground and not that much protective barriers. And lol it hitted the light and make it turn to follow the chain reaction
- Tube bridge : invented by @kaploss here : youtube.com/watch?v=e38B2M4OjmI Easy to make it fall but a nightmare to build. You have to build it like a tower and turn it on its side. It holds thanks to the friction so paint is a good thing here. Placing the dominoes inside the tube was a hardcore level of building
- Kapla wheel : @kaploss again : youtube.com/watch?v=x33z10f_DIg Not reliable because it can disassemble randomly when rolling
- Classic bridge : Just because I had to do it. There is no real Kapla video without a bridge like that :)
- The arch : ultra hard to build alone, but it looks cool for a thumbnail
- Risky bridge : it's like a video game when the bridge is falling behind you. One week thinking about it and testing to find this design. Tips : easier to build if you have an even floor, not like mine
- X trick : a small and slow trick to contrast with the rest. Hard to build it high because of unstability
- Down tower : I invented this tricks almost 10 years ago in an old video on this channel. Because of the tunnel it continues only when the tower is completely destroyed
- Pyramid : a pyramidThe Quarantine Machine : a toilet paper chain reactionKaplamino2020-04-01 | A chain reaction machine with only toilet paper tricks ! Watch the fails here : youtube.com/watch?v=5qjLG9EuA5U
As toilet paper has become a meme in this quarantine, I thought it would be fun to make a chain reaction with it to spend time. First I had to go out and buy it, and be judged by people... But I took the packs one by one every day and there was plenty of it in the store, no shortage because of me haha. It is difficult to make a chain reaction with toilet paper because they roll unpredictably because of imperfections, and they're all different.
Now let's talk about the tricks :
- Slide on the broom : I had to add some tape on the broom because it wasn't sliding enough otherwise, that's why it's brown. The open book of the ground is useful because it helps to make the broom falling in exact same position each time, so it could hit the book. Fun fact, I used almost all the books available in my flat for this machine
- "Stay home" : I built this trick at the end, because I thought it was a shame I didn't put that message out. It was the trick that had the most failures (success rate ~50%), because the rolling was chaotic and it had to take the right angle to hit the next domino book. I tried to put it in the same initial position each time and the shock to make it start rolling is absorbed by the books so it's smooth and it always goes the same way. When it worked, it was mostly luck x) but I could afford it because the machine was small enough to take risks.
- Toilet pendulums : Yeah, I had to tape the toilet paper sheets to the ceiling with lots of tape. Both had a success rate of 100% but the problem was somewhere else. In order to film the machine, at one point I had to pass between the two hanging rolls without destroying them, even though they were very fragile and there was only 50cm (1.5 foot) between them. One time I smashed the first pendulum while passing, that's why it looks torned.
- Toilet paper that unrolls : my favorite trick in this machine. I used a lot of hot glue and a fidget spinner again ! It was a nightmare to rebuild, if you ever had to reroll a roll like this you know why, it just keep moving left and right so you have to reroll it slowly and carefully, which took me 5min each time.
- The liquid soap : it was an evidence to build this as a goal within the current context. A lot of weight was needed to push it so I had to use a heavy metal ball, which required hot glue to fix everything around so the ball doesn't push the chair. The blue domino line was supposed to give me time to put my hand under the soap but I did it at the very last moment in panic. As you can imagine it's not possible to rub hands with a camera in one hand so there is a cut, but I tried to make it looks natural and fluid.
Almost all the fails were caused by a minority of tricks (like in all my machines) : the "stay home" and the auto-tilt just before the fan. The auto-tilt failed mainly because of friction that stops the roll, so I added tape to the kaplas, and also early-trigger fail caused by vibration.
For this machine I was out of my confort zone, it was a "classical" rube goldberg with a large scale and large objets, not a tiny marble machine. Also It was hard to film because it moves rapidly and everywhere in the room (floor, table, ...). Also I built this in only 10 days, and not months like I am used to.Blue Marble 4 : the big leapKaplamino2019-11-03 | Here's episode 4 of the blue marble!
Like the previous one I used two tables which allowed me to build more and bigger tricks. It is the chain reaction that has taken up the most space in my room since the beginning.
Some information about tricks:
- the slidings white dominoes: this one was so satisfying; the dominoes slide exactly after the marble has passed over them. It looks like a video game when a character walks over a bridge that collapses behind him. But how do dominoes slide? The slope is not steep enough to make this possible. The idea is to pour fine sand under the dominoes and all the way down the slide. With the sand, any object placed on it will slide even with a very slight slope. I discovered this by accident when I was trying to make a trick with sand and the objects, I put on the table always ended up on the ground. To keep them from slipping there are 3-hole reinforcement, the dominoes are placed on them, but when the marble passes, they move a little down, fall from the hole reinforcement and start slipping. This technique required a high degree of precision to be applied at each test. If it was too sensitive, they would fall before because of the vibrations of the previous tricks (like the iron ruler), and if it was not sensitive enough, they would stay at the top without moving. Getting one under control is already hard, but I had the good idea to put 3 of them in a row to make it even harder. On the other hand, when they were well put in the right position, they worked 100% of the time, it's just that the right position was very difficult to find.
- the red car: it's called a "retrofriction car", but I learned it afterwards, in the store I had to ask "you know the car that you pull back and then it goes forward", it took me an hour to find it. At first the car was supposed to go to the top of the table by pushing the ball vertically but the slope was too steep, so I had the idea to compress the marble between a domino and the car, which pushes it upwards
- the fidget spinner: yes, one more. I like the simplicity of this one, only the spinner and the marble, no strings or complicated things, just the weight of the marble that makes the path turn, and it works every time
- the helium balloon: helium is expensive and hard to find. But that wasn't the biggest problem. It is such a small atom that it passes through the plastic of the balloon, which deflates with time. When I inflated it he had enough strength to lift the marble for about an hour. The little trick was to over-inflate it and put a weight with blu-tack to compensate (when it had too much strength it would blow the ball out of the circuit). As a result, every time the balloon lost strength, I removed a little bit of weight, which allowed me to hold on longer with the same balloon. I still used 6 or 7 (I had the capacity to inflate 25). Oh and yes, I used toilet paper for the ramp, because it's light.
- the fan: this is the main trick of the video. All the previous tricks take up little space but the fan takes up the majority of the white table. I wanted a big trick to contrast with the rest and make it even more impressive. This machine was hard to film because you had to alternate between the small tricks where you had to be close to understand what was going on and the large angles for tricks like this one, also the marble goes fast. This is the first time I use electricity in my machines (and not the last time considering all I can do with it). To start the fan the red marble falls on a button. This button is in balance between "on" and "off" which makes it very sensitive and a small shock is enough to tip it to one side. The fan is multi-use, it is used to make the marble go up with the elevator, and make it jump higher for the 2nd bounce to reach the other black platform. It caused a large part of the failures, not because of the fan, but the jump with the rubber band. The bounce remained a little random and it was necessary for the marble to land accurately, twice.
- coca/mentos : I always wanted to use the famous coca/mentos tricks, now it's done. You can notice that I used 3 mentos glued together because one was not enough (and I didn't test 2 because it cost me a bottle at each test). The first time it put coke everywhere, so I added the container at the bottom of the table to catch the liquid, and since there was the electrical outlet underneath, I think it's was good idea.
- the electric mixer: I couldn't make cakes for a month because it was glued to the table :(
If you read all of this, congrats, you're a true chain reaction fan. I'm going to try to post more regularly but I'm a great procrastinator (I bought the white table for this 4 months ago). The next video will probably be a screen link like Magnets and marble, It has been a long time. It will allow me to have fun with risky techniques that I can't do with one-take machines.Blue Marble 3 : the cannonKaplamino2019-02-26 | I didn't post for two months, now you know why ! I present you my most ambitious project so far, blue marble 3 ! I'm out of my comfort zone this time because the chain reaction is taking place on two tables, and with 0 fidget spinners. It is the longest in terms of duration and the one that takes up the most space in my room. I tried to use a little bit of everything like rubber bands, magnets, and elements. I had so many failures that I stopped counting, as always only a few tricks were responsible for the majority of failures, can you guess which ones?
Now let's talk about the tricks!
The beginning is mainly moving tracks tricks, I tried to compile all the ones I knew. You can notice that some are improved versions of tricks from previous videos. For example, the first one is inspired by the first blue marble video, but this version is simpler and more pleasant to watch ( ok I lied I still use ball bearings from "fidget" spinners, is that counts? ). Same thing for the grey track that rolls at 0:38 (and the timing is so perfect with this one). The track that rotates 180° in 3D caused a lot of vibration because of the big domino that falls and could trigger the rest too early, that's why I damped it with tissues.
You may be wondering what the two large metal balls attached to the tape measure are for. Two things, first, they slow down the tape to prevent it from flying away on the final impact, and second, they are used to slide the tape down because of the weight. The idea of using this slide came by accident, I saw that each time the tape measure was sliding down so I thought to myself why not integrate it into the trick. The speed of the slide is very random as you can see on the video, only one hair could stop it. It was very stressful to film thinking, "Go ahead... almost... you're going to make it... please".
The bridge of small metal marbles holds only with magnetic force. I wanted to put 8 marbles but the bridge was then too brittle and the marble destroyed it when passing over it. It was hard to break it in exactly the right place between the 3rd and 4th marbles. I think it is the trick that works in the most unexpected way of the project.
The air loop is very fun. The two main challenges were first to inflate the balloon with exactly the amount of air it takes to make 3 turns of the loop, and then to push a plug into the balloon (a small magnet with exactly the right size by coincidence) with exactly the right strength to hold it well but not too much :p You can see big magnets everywhere to recover the plug and prevent it from blocking a track, it was pretty unpredictable to know where it was going to jump. I couldn't put a large magnet too close because it could stop the two small magnets from getting closer or tear the cap off too soon.
Now let's talk about the red table! And more particularly the fire catapult, which is in my opinion the main trick of this video. I wanted to do it a long time ago! It is a cannon made of a metal tube with a small firecracker inside. I wore a headphone to reduce the sound of the BANG (even if it wasn't that loud). The marble thrown by the explosion hits another fixed metal marble that transmits its energy to the blue marble. This prevents the blue marble from being burned in the explosion, after which it could no longer roll.
The final technique with water is an improved version of my 1st water trick in Blue marble 2. It's better because there's a satisfying bubble sound :) It's the last one because once the marble is wet it doesn't roll much anymore and you can't do anything else.
I hope you will like it !Spinners and ElementsKaplamino2018-12-15 | This chain reaction is a mix of lots of differents ideas. First, you have of course the fidget spinners because their potential is definitvely endless, combined with 3 elements (air, fire and water) and to spice it up some magnets and rubber bands tricks. I'm really happy because it's the first time I've found a way to use all 3 elements at once (except earth I know, but I can't do anything with it so it doesn't count).
It has only 38 fails caused mostly by the fire trick and the timing trick with the white spinner at the beginning. The best strategy is to put at the beginning of the chain risky tricks (timing tricks are always risky no matter how careful you are) but easy to rebuild and I put at the end the safe tricks but harder to rebuild (for exemple the water).
- Fire : This was hard to find and it took me a lot of tests to find a way to make it work. I had either too powerful rockets that exploded the spinner making too much noise, or firecracker wicks that were too weak. I had to remove the weights from the blue spinner to make it lighter so that it can rotate despite the low force. The burning wick is beautiful with the black background and the sound is so satisfying.
- Air : the idea itself is cool, use the centrifugal force to release the marbles from the spinner. But I'm especially proud of the technique of plugging the straw with the magnet, by coincidence it's exactly the same size :)
- Water : just a big thanks to the hot glue gun that allowed me to build this complex mechanism.
Now about the yellow spinner launched at high speed with the red rubber band. The main difficulty here was how to release it, because the force on the first straw is very high because of the tension. But thanks to the help to the lever effect, to force on the second straw is much weaker, and it can be easily removed with a steel marble !
Finally I like the fact that the first trick use the orange spinner, and the last trick use the same spinner, because it's still spinning. That's why I lauched it with so much force at the beginning.Rubber Bands and MarblesKaplamino2018-11-06 | I built and filmed this machine in only one week (40 fails). The rubber bands in the last video gave me the inspiration to do more with those.
It is shorter than usual because I preferred to do few impressive tricks and focus on quality and how well it looked rather than complexity or length. Also because tricks with rubber bands are unpredictable and unreliable.
As you saw I learned from my mistakes and put the most sensitive part at the beginning with the sliding trampoline, so that the vibrations of other tricks can't trigger it too soon
The most complicated trick was the stack marble effect at 0:10 (check youtube.com/watch?v=2UHS883_P60 to learn more about it). The spacing between the two marbles had to be exactly the right one for it to work. This trick caused 90% of the fails.
My favorite part and the main idea of this video is as you can guess the loop. It's very satisfying. And what impresses me the most is the simplicity of the launch system, just 2 dominoes and a rubber band. And surprisingly it works almost every timeBlue Marble 2 : air and waterKaplamino2018-08-31 | Here is episode 2 of the blue marble ! Same concept as the 1st, a big one marble path on my table in one take. Let me introduce you to the tricks used in this project.
The trick at 0:23 caused the majority of the fails. It had to be exactly in the right position and it was moving because of the vibrations of the trick above.
The air canon with the balloon was a big challenge to make. The rubber band squeezes the balloon around the straw to release the air in a specific direction. Then the hardest part was to find how to stop the air and deliver it when I want. It was too difficult to put something like tape at the end of the straw because it was either too clingy or not enough. The solution was to twist the balloon around the straw and block it in this position with a rope. In this position the air stays in the balloon until it untwists. I explain it because I think what exactly happened it's not easy to get when you see the video.
After this I built a timing catapult trick. I know I'm crazy because timing tricks are so unreliable, it was mostly based on luck but worked 80% of the time. It was so sensitive, just a little more dust or some hair on my table could make it fail so I had to clean it for almost every take.
Yep I used a fidget spinner again, I'm proud of this one, nice and almost never failed.
The big catapult was supposed to be a trick with fire (the plan was to build something with elements: fire, air and water). The marble was supposed to go up because of the explosion of a firecracker :p But it was too risky, I know it can work (it worked 2 times) but with MASSIVE luck. It's impossible to predict how they'll explode. And it caused lots of others problems. The marble was burned and it wasn't rolling really well after that. The shockwave can trigger other tricks and finally the debris from the explosions was falling all over the place and could block the marble at a later stage. It also burned the table and hurt my ears. So I gave up, but maybe you'll find this trick in a screenlink later ;)
About the water trick. Release the water was really easy, but it took me weeks to figure out what to do with it. You can't push something with it, not enough force ... So I taped a folded paper and when the water touched it, it got wet and unfold because of the weight :D But the marble also touches the water and gets wet. After that you can see that it moves slowly.
So the final trick had to be VERY sensitive. Why do I always put the most sensitive trick at the end?
So this is it ! I hope you'll like it as much as the first blue marble !SpinnersKaplamino2018-03-17 | I already used two fidget spinners tricks in the previous video, but they were very simple. I knew that it was possible to do much better, because this object has a lot of potential for chain reactions and can be used in many different ways. So I made a video with 10 of these tricks, in one shot again. I hope you'll like it :)The Blue Marble : a one marble path chain reactionKaplamino2018-02-04 | After 3 months of work and probably more than 500 fails, I'm happy to present you my best video ever. Since magnets and marbles I've always wanted to make a big chain reaction in one take with this 2D style !
It's also a "one marble path" which means you have to follow the same marble for all the tricks (in that case the little blue one.) Because everything is in a tilted plane, the hard part was to find different ways of having the marble riding up along the table (magnets, falling weight, catapult ...). To do that, the marble has to be light. And because everything has to be triggered by this little marble, all the tricks are very unstable. Most fails happened when an element fall down earlier than expected.
I learned a lot about chain reaction, and I discovered the amazing power of the hot glue gun !UNCONVENTIONAL Domino Tricks ! - Hevesh5 & KaplaminoKaplamino2017-10-21 | Music : Good For You by THBD soundcloud.com/thbdsultan Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/-K_YSjqKgvQ
This type of domino video is called a domino "screenlink" where each clip is built separately, then edited together to make it appear like one continuous chain reaction. Hevesh5 and I live in different countries, so it was impossible to do it all in one take. Doing this video as a screenlink was simply a way for us to make a collab video together :) The first half the video was built by Hevesh5, then at 1:44 it switches over to me. What was your favorite trick? :)
The main idea of the video was to create a project with fire because it’s impressive and rare to see it in a Chain Reaction (as an example, there are much more tricks with air). And when there is fire it’s generally just a moving candle that burns a rope. But there is a problem with candles, you have to light it just before starting the reaction. It would be better to find a way for the reaction itself to light the fire just at the moment you need it.
There is an example of this idea in the Sprice project for America's Got Talent quarterfinals when the machine ended with fireworks : youtube.com/watch?v=d4xC-CZbAnY#t=0m59s It uses a match to start the fire, this is probably the best way to do it because you only need friction and it's a really common and cheap objet. But in this machine the mecanism was a bit complex and used very large material.
My goal was to light a match in the simplest way possible so that everyone will be able to reproduce it. The challenge is that you need a lot of energy to get enough friction, and so what is the best option to release a large quantity of energy in a small space ? A rubber band ! And I already have a cool trick with a rubber band that I found in my video "The New trick" : youtube.com/watch?v=e_4KdMtNb1k#t=0m16s I just added a match on it with tape. Honestly when I tested it for the first time I didn't expect it to work and it was a great surprise ! It had so much potential that I decided to make a screen link with it. The first trick was discovered by accident when the fire cut the rubber band, I think this is the first multi-use rubber band trick ever !
To make this video more impressive I decided to create a big chain reaction in one shot with all the tricks that I found at the end (and also to prove that I can do it to all the people that say that I cheat because it doesn't count when you build and film all the parts separately, even if it's the definition of a screenlink ) It was a great challenge because I didn't build a lot of large projects like that (before this one, my biggest project in one try was in the middle of my random screen link video) and now I can understand the frustration of all machines builders because it failed about 20 times. It took me a full week to build it and make it work.
The ideas you can see in this video are more reliable than you think and work almost everytime if you build it correctly (the hardest part was to find how to build it correctly, in the screenlink you have the first version of the trick and in the final machine the 100% working version). And when there was a fail it was never caused by the part with the rubber band ( the match always lights up). Feel free to use it in your videos ! I'm sure there is so many tricks to invent with this concept.
Oh and why I didn't upload during more than one year ? Because I prefer quality than quantity and I only upload a video when I think it's awesome, and it was hard to reach the level of Magnets and Marbles in terms of originality. It's the problem when you have a huge sucess, you don't know what to do after it ^^ I don't know if this video is going to be as popular as the previous one (probably not), but personally I love it :) I didn't add music for the final chain reaction, let's just appreciate the sound of dominoes, and RIP headphones users for the explosive part.Musically Timed Screenlink 2 ! w/ FlashdominoKaplamino2015-12-06 | A fun domino project based on a concept of Flashdomino (go to his channel if you want to see the episode 1 of this series).
Music : "Chaotic" by Waterflame : youtube.com/watch?v=BhN9OdjE4m4Random screen linkKaplamino2015-09-11 | Sorry for 6 months without uploding, I had some problems like a broken camera, and not enough time to build because of studies ... And now I'm in a small appartement with carpet on the floor so I don't know how I'm going to make more videos, maybe carpet dominoes or RGM on my table ^^ But you have to know that even if I don't post new things, I'm always on youtube and you can send me a message if you want to know something ;)
Ok now let's talk about this video, it's a screen link again because I like that as you know. But with no theme, I just build everthing that come to my mind. Some tricks take me a while to make (the stairs with kaplas, the tape trick, the origami part ...). You can also see some ISM inspiration :) I hope you like it !
Music : "Spotless Mind" by Indigo Rain : youtube.com/watch?v=c39Ut1coEigSanderMovies1 Contest EntryKaplamino2015-02-28 | A screen link for SanderMovies1, I hope you like it ;) Contest screenlink collab : youtube.com/watch?v=WAwyrgFWCQEMarbles TricksKaplamino2015-02-05 | Music : "Accidents Will Happen" by Silent Partner from youtube audio library.
I had not planned to do this video but when I saw everyone comment "I like the part with marbles !" I decided to do one video with just the marbles ;) I hope you like it !Special screen link for 1000 subscribersKaplamino2014-12-11 | Finally, I reached 1000 subs ! Thank you, it was really awesome =D This is my longest screen link ever with 5:15 ! I hope you like it because I tried some new things.
Channel informations : It's not a comeback because this video is very special. In fact, when I see that my subsribers continue to increase after 500, and all the positives comments in my last video, I started to think about this project. But it took me time, a lot of time. One clip each day during the last months. And I can't tell you when I'm going to make another video ...
This is my last video ... why ? Because of school :( And I have no more inspiration, if I continue with dominoes, it could become boring, that's why I made pool tricks, because it's fun and I never made a video with trick shots..
So, I've to say a big THANK YOU, for this 2 years on youtube, 600 subs and 150.000 views. Thanks to Hevesh5, StickTrickDominoDude, and all the domino builders who support me, it was really amazing.
If you want to tell me what you think of this 2 years of work you can leave a comment :)
Music : "Sound Off" by Jingle Punks : youtube.com/watch?v=99U-yp0z1qMBuilder challenges / 500 subsKaplamino2014-07-07 | In this video, a builder challenge screen link and some cool rally with dominos and kaplas. Maybe one of my last video because of school ... Next year will be for me my hardest school year so I can't spend all my time with dominoes. Thank you everyone for 500 subs =D
Song :
-1st : Mr.Pink by Topher Mohr - 2nd : World Map by Jason Farnham99 Amazing Chain Reaction Tricks Part 2Kaplamino2014-06-01 | A collaboration between Kaplamino and:
Music : 8 bit beat Machine by Indigo rain : youtube.com/watch?v=yRWjyyPhUccMarDominoes Contest EntryKaplamino2014-05-08 | My entry for SuperMarMarMan1 :) I tried to do my best and I hope you like it ! Results : youtube.com/watch?v=4zxuSEljIBMRubber bands and kaplas tricksKaplamino2014-04-13 | A new trick with rubber band, it's cool to make speed screen link ! Only 2 minutes of video but a long time to make it, trust me ;) You can use this trick on your video of course !
Music : "Bonus Level" by EnV : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/570434Contest resultsKaplamino2014-03-14 | The contest result ! Thanks to Pyro Maniack, StickTrickDominoDude and SuperMarMarMan1 for their entry ;)
Music : "Feel the air" by Janze : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/569946 SuperMarMarMan1's channel : youtube.com/user/SuperMarMarMan19 tricks to make cool domino rallyKaplamino2014-03-06 | A screen link made in one week =D With sonimod, doors, direction changers, wall, speedwall, fallback, magic trick, la ola, and corner. What is your favourite trick ? Music : " -Hexagon-Force- " by Waterflame : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/568699Random Domino FunKaplamino2014-02-23 | Dominoes, sominod, speedwall, wall, slowstones, fallback, pyramid, reverse trick, carpet kapla, kapla rally, and more .... Music : "Big booty" by Kor-Rune : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/566040200 subs specialKaplamino2014-02-01 | Hey, I got 200 subs !!! I make a screen link, a rally and some tricks just for fun. I hope you like it ;)
Music : Approaching Infinity by Bacon92 : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/462755Dominoes stairs tricksKaplamino2013-12-30 | 13 dominos / kaplas tricks in the stairs ! With 4 game included, try to find the right answer for each one and leave a comment with your results =D
Music 1 : "Dance of the snow man" by AceJackLind Music 2 : "Speedrunner" by darthdubaRubber bands tricks contest (CLOSE)Kaplamino2013-11-02 | Welcome in Kaplamino contest ! You want to get a tribute ? So join it ;)Domino screen link 5Kaplamino2013-09-23 | Hey guys ! This is my new video, yes, another screen link ;) I hope you like it, I make some cool new tricks ! Music http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/549623Domino screen link 4 / 100 subsKaplamino2013-04-21 | It's a big screen link with kapla and elastic tricks ! Sorry for 3 months without new video, I have many work at school ... Thanks again to my subscribers and to all the people who like my video =D
Music : "Return to Babylon" by Bacon92 : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/491671Tricks, fields and rallyKaplamino2012-12-26 | A lot of project in this video ! I have made a cool trick with elastic at the end ;) Next video : screen link 4 Music : http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/51355550 subs and domino testsKaplamino2012-10-11 | 50 subs special and a lot of tests, tricks and project. Enjoy !PenBdomino contestKaplamino2012-08-08 | Special video for PenBdomino contest ! Results here : youtube.com/watch?v=MVqvsMmC1j420 kapla rallyKaplamino2012-06-22 | 20 kapla rally with some new tricks !Domino screen link 3Kaplamino2012-05-18 | Domino screen link 3 and rube goldberg test !25 subs and dominoes on the wallKaplamino2012-02-17 | 25 subs - 2D domino - Cards screen link and more ...Random kapla rallyKaplamino2012-01-14 | Kapla rally with new kapla tricks.10 subs special and domino tricksKaplamino2012-01-04 | In this video, 10 subs special and lots of tests !Domino screen link 2 and kapla towersKaplamino2011-12-03 | Domino video n°2 with screen link and kapla tower !50 tricks with dominoesKaplamino2011-11-11 | For my first video, a big screen link with 50 techniques of domino !! :) 1 month to make the video !