Bingemann, Jan Niklas: Marblebeests (Physical marble runs as scannable programs)

Marblebeests is a system in which physical marble runs built from 3D-printed tiles are the program. A companion app scans the physical construction, uses a vision-language model to parse the topology into an intermediate representation, and either executes that program against test cases (puzzle mode), streams commands to a connected Raspberry Pi robot (robot mode), or runs a simulation. The physical marble run is the source code; building it, debugging it, and rebuilding it is the programming a