Rube Goldberg engineering

[spinningmagnets]

Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who drew overly-elaborate contraptions that were much more complex than neccessary in order to perfrom a simple task.

How Rube Goldberg gets the blinds to open so the sun wakes him up in the morning

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c

If you liked that, here's the Honda "cog" commercial

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6006084025483872237#

Goldberg cocktail pouring machine

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1497920/the_falling_water_rube_goldberg_cocktail_making_machine/

From the movie "Waiting", how Rube Goldberg pours a beer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAQ_c1C1JfQ

From busted_bike, the band "OK Go" performing This Too Shall Pass

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

 

[TPA]

paper bag would not hold water unless coated.

Magnifying glass would not burn hole in bag as long as there is water in it.

 

[slayer]

Maybe he could put rice instead

 

[gilnet]

Nice critique,It was HUMOR.people in the thirties laughed wthout worrying about the tecnicalities.

 

[spinningmagnets]

In looking up info and a pic for this thread, I was suprised to find out most of his cartoons had a seed of satire and were making fun of how government operates. A friend sent me the window blinds video, and I thought there must be many young posters who've never heard of RG, and may have not seen these videos yet...harmless fun.

 

[AussieJester]

The windows blinds is freakin INSANE toooooo much time on there hands but very impressive none the less...After seeing LiveForPhysics efforts with that physics game he posted awhile back i reckon he could come up with some pretty cool "Rube Goldberg" contraptions!

The Honda ad also screened here in OZ...

KiM

 

[mwkeefer]

RG was either the inspiration or the actual author for the famous and memorable contraptions used in the Tom and Jerry cartoons... overly complicated, psuedo functional but freakin hilarious!

-Mike

 

[drifter]

I wouldn't put my shoes on without socks and I'm a Tasmanian

 

[spinningmagnets]

College students and Coca-Cola...Fast forward to 1:33...

[youtube]KEBJmZL8G1E[/youtube]

 

[Hillhater]

Have you seen any of the "Wallace and Gromit" animations from Nick Park ?

 

[The fingers]

Wonder if he designed the Mouse Trap board game of the '60s? 8)

 

[spinningmagnets]

This is also how an old water-wheel/steam-engine hammer-mill crushes ore from big rocks into small one. Its how cams were invented long before cars.

 

[TylerDurden]

That would be a projector geneva...

 

[busted_bike]

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

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

 

[spinningmagnets]

One of the most enjoyable 3-minutes and 54-second events I've had in quite a while (insert joke here about double-entendre that involves insertion)

 

[Trackman417]

One from Mythbusters.
[youtube]lCYg_gz4fDo[/youtube]

 

[salty9]

I wouldn't put my shoes on without socks and I'm a Tasmanian

As we would say in the states may be a tad too much inside baseball.

 

[spinningmagnets]

I recently found out you can make GIFs bigger by holding down the CTRL key (bottom left of keyboard) and rolling the mouse wheel.

 

[Miles]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22083752

 

[spinningmagnets]

 

[cal3thousand]

Can't leave out my favorite: The Truffle Shuffle

[youtube]D_UsDrreJeo[/youtube]

 

[spinningmagnets]

 

[spinningmagnets]

Found one more:

https://www.facebook.com/HappyPeopleHappy/videos/854659591254771/?type=1&theater

 

[spinningmagnets]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY

[youtube]nWU0bfo-bSY[/youtube]

 

[spinningmagnets]

Dozens of "Rube Goldberg" devices on this facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/josephsmachines/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf