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. More »
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. More »
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. More »
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. More »
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Marriage can be complicated. Everyone knows that. But marriage proposals can be complicated too – just ask Robert, a Gizmodo reader who constructed an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to deliver his girlfriend’s engagement ring. Watch the big moment zip-line in. More »
