I love Rube Goldbergs

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » January 17th, 2010, 12:54 pm

And this one especially so:

http://www.break.com/index/best_rube_goldberg_ever.html

Very creative use of a wide range of objects.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » January 17th, 2010, 11:26 pm

I have a deep nerdy love of Rube Goldbergs. Especially the Honda one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o

EmilyBee · Post by **EmilyBee** » January 18th, 2010, 10:10 am

Asaf: *boggle!!* That was amazing!

Chelley · Post by **Chelley** » March 2nd, 2010, 3:22 pm

Thought you guys might like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

There are obviously some edits but overall still very impressive.

Post by **happywaffle** » March 2nd, 2010, 4:39 pm

Holy wow. Where do you see any edits? That looks like a single shot to me.

Ya know, I feel the same feeling watching Rube Goldberg contraptions that I do when watching stop-motion animation: I'm amazed, but I also get a headache thinking about the amount of work involved.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » March 2nd, 2010, 5:03 pm

happywaffle wrote:Holy wow. Where do you see any edits? That looks like a single shot to me.

Yes.

happywaffle wrote:Ya know, I feel the same feeling watching Rube Goldberg contraptions that I do when watching stop-motion animation: I'm amazed, but I also get a headache thinking about the amount of work involved.

Yes. They have about the same Work:Product ratio.

Science & Art. My two loves.

jillybee72 · Post by **jillybee72** » March 2nd, 2010, 11:38 pm

OK GO!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube][/youtube]

SarahMarie · Post by **SarahMarie** » March 3rd, 2010, 10:50 am

Love love love love love love!

WHen I grow up, I'm gonna have a whole room to do things like this in.

zyrain · Post by **zyrain** » March 4th, 2010, 2:55 pm

sara_anm8r wrote: Yes. They have about the same Work:Product ratio.

I'm not sure how it is with stop motion, but I used to build Rube Goldberg devices all the time as a kid, and I was amazed at how fast I got at it. In the beginning, or when working with a strange new component, it is slow trial and error, but after a while one can rather quickly translate an idea into a machine with relatively few trials.

jillybee72 · Post by **jillybee72** » March 5th, 2010, 1:39 am

In that OK Go video there's a part where you can see all the broken TVs from their previous takes.

zyrain · Post by **zyrain** » March 5th, 2010, 3:13 am

Article from Wired:

How OK Go’s Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Was Built

They used a lot of 'fiddly bits': complex stuff that was often intentionally calibrated to the music timing, thus making it a nightmare!

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » March 5th, 2010, 8:58 am

Q&A with some of the Rube-Goldberg builders.

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Go back to any pilot you can think of and you'll find a bunch of nervous actors just trying not to get fired.
-- Jack Coleman, of _Heroes_

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » March 5th, 2010, 9:56 am

Marble machine made of bits of wood.

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Without music, life is just a bunch of dates by which bills should be paid.
-- Frank Zappa