Rube Goldberg machines are getting a little long in the tooth. OK Go may have made them popular again with their video for This Too Shall Pass, but since then it’s been like a cold arms race to build the biggest and best. Yawn.
If you thought Purdue’s previous Rube Goldberg machine was impressive, a 156-step burger-making contraption, you’ll be ‘blown away’ with its latest creation. A 300-step machine whose sole purpose is to blow up, pop balloons and set world records.
There’s nothing quite like watching a second-grader expertly analyse and explain his application of the scientific method as it relates to capturing stuffed monsters to make you question what you’ve been doing with your life. This kid is could be a real-life Chris Knight.
To be fair, they managed to take two pictures! But boy did it take them some time. There’s at least a gazillion gorillapods, reflectors, flash cards, soft lights, cameras, printers and balls involved in this bat-shit crazy Rube Goldberg Machine.
Sony, Rube Goldberg-style videos are meant to be fast, exciting! And fast. Unless…unless you’re trying to manage expectations about the S1 and S2 tablets’ processor speed? Oh, you teases. I may as well go watch that OkGo video again, for kicks. [AndroidCommunity]
Rube Goldberg contraptions are cool no matter what – but getting one to mechanise dinosaurs, WWII, the Cold War and the 2012 apocalypse is extra icing. Extra extra icing is the machine’s 244 steps—a new world record for convoluted mechanisms.
Two Pratt graduate students, Alex Crawford and Austin Nelson, decided their lives – or studies, anyway – wouldn’t be quite complete without having built a Rube Goldberg Machine of their very own. But it’s not just a bunch plinking and plopping for its own sake; this complex contraption actually begins and ends with a photograph.
He’s a generous Dad too – he has put the instructions on Instructables for building your very own. I don’t think you even need children as an excuse to create this, that’s how awesome it is. [Instructables via DailyWhat]
Remember as a kid, when you saw Rube Goldberg-style perpetual motion setups and wished you could build one yourself? Daniel from St Louis didn’t stop there. Using an exercise bike, farm motor and dry-cleaner rack, the fun even spans the ceiling.
