The Creation of the Maze

After working with Evan in Central Shop to get usable designs for the CNC router, I was able to render my tracks in 3/4" MDF. The process went quite smoothly and the tracks all worked fairly well individually. Each track is designed to be positioned on a level surface. This is possible because the tracks themselves are designed to be sloping downward from the beginning of the path. 

This is the last section in the set of tracks. It is a simple catching dish designed to hold the marbles after they fall through the maze. It was turned on a lathe, pictured below.

Snazzy lathe.

 Here the CNC router is shown. The first track has already been completed at this point and the second is underway. 

 All tracks have been completed here and are sitting on top of the router. 

Track number 6

Track number 5

Track number 4

Track number 3

 Track number 2

Here are a couple views of the structure I created to hold the tracks in place being glued together and held tight with a ton of clamps. 

This is a shot of the end result with some bamboo skewers stuck in haphazardly. The plan is to use the skewers to guide the marbles from track to track smoothly so that they don't go flying out. This is a temporary solution though and may not be present in the final design. Everything hinges on the group's opinion of this aesthetic change.

Closeups of the skewers.