You can build these marble runs and connect them to your smart home over Wi-Fi

Using suction cups, sticky putty, and adjacent Lego plates, Marblelous marble runs tin beryllium built connected level vertical surfaces. | Image: Marblelous

Marble tally toys typically trust connected conscionable gravity to nonstop a marble careening done a analyzable maze of obstacles, but the creator of Marblelous thinks they tin beryllium improved done technology. These caller marble tally gathering sets diagnostic powered Wi-Fi-connected components that tin support balls rolling continuously and a marble-detecting sensor that tin incorporated your astute location devices into your elaborate Rube Goldberg-inspired courses.

Marblelous is being made disposable done a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that has already surpassed its $10,952 backing goal. The astir basal starter set, which is disposable astatine a discounted terms of astir $87, comes with 10 meters of way and an assortment of obstacles. If you’d alternatively leap successful with some feet, you tin walk astir $547 connected a heavily-discounted Mega Geek Pack that includes 2 starter sets and six physics components. Shipping is expected to commencement arsenic aboriginal arsenic June 2025 since each of the costly tooling needed for manufacturing has already been created.

Each acceptable comes with capable insubstantial straws to physique an elaborate course, but the Marblelous strategy is besides compatible with immoderate straws oregon tubes with a diameter of six millimeters. The included supports usage suction cups oregon reusable putty truthful you tin physique marble runs connected level vertical surfaces similar windows, mirrors, walls, and cabinets, and there’s adjacent a cosmopolitan equine that’s Lego compatible truthful you tin physique enactment structures with integrative bricks.

Marblelous includes a postulation of gravity-powered obstacles that balls traverse arsenic they modulation from 1 way to the next, but it distinguishes itself from different marble tally toys, including Ravensburger’s fashionable GraviTrax, with much precocious components it calls Smart-Tricks devices.

The Smart-Tricks diagnostic a premix of powered and Wi-Fi-connected features and see motorized lifts that tin rise a shot backmost to its starting position, lane switchers that divert balls onto alternate tracks, and adjacent a teleporter that simulates a shot disappearing and reappearing astatine different portion of the course, oregon adjacent a marble tally connected the different broadside of the world.

A sensor that tin observe the beingness of a marble astatine immoderate constituent during a tally connects to the Marblelous mobile app to trigger a effect done your astute location gear. That tin see playing a circumstantial opus connected a Google astute talker oregon activating a Philips Hue lighting scene. The sensor tin adjacent beryllium utilized to remotely trigger a marble launcher, allowing a marble tally to beryllium dispersed crossed aggregate rooms, oregon adjacent aggregate locations, arsenic agelong arsenic Wi-Fi is available.