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yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012
A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) -Wikipedia

Today there are some seriously impressive rube goldberg machines, whether they're made inside a video game like the incredible machine or minecraft, animated like some something awful's own blue ball machine, or even made in real life!

To start things off, here's one of my favorites, made with lego mindstorms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWd3vgLaA_M

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yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012
I don't have a video for this one, but The timekeeping machine from the later series of Scrapheap Challenge. Early on they'd just keep time by... keeping the time, but after a few seasons they replaced it with a large machine that started by rolling a ball down a chute, and after ten hours, ringing a gong. The machine had a great "scrappy" look to it, which really meshed with the aesthetic of the show.

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012


MOUSE TRAP

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

Fun fact about that video: the rube goldberg machine executed in one take but they had to make a cut in the video because a sound guy got in shot

StudlyCaps
Oct 4, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQGn4wTIFs4

Pitagora suitchi!

doodlebugs
Feb 18, 2015

by Lowtax
This ones pretty good.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ipc2n_the-way-things-go_creation

blunt for century
Jul 4, 2008

I've got a bone to pick.

This one is pretty old, but still pretty neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

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Painful Dart Bomb
May 23, 2012

And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew he'd say "I'm gonna be like you, dad" "You know I'm gonna be like you".
This red bull one is pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0jmSsQ5ptw

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