Watching Rube Goldberg Go Viral
Rube Goldberg has really become an adjective, thanks to the strange, enduring attraction to his devices
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Rube Goldberg Devices Promote Cooperative Learning
It’s called “MakerKids Rube Goldberg Device,” but the point of the exhibit is more about getting kids to work together toward a goal
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Watch These Kids Go Nuts Making Rube Goldberg Machines
STEAMLabs invited kids and families to build crazy Rube Goldberg machines at their brand-new Makerspace in downtown Toronto, and the resulting video is 62 seconds of fun. Makes me think OK Go should just hire these kids to do their next video. STEAMLabs is a non-profit, all-ages Makerspace dedicated to empowering kids and adults to […]
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What IF…Festival of Innovation and Imagination
What IF… Festival: Don’t miss the geeky gadgets, DIY demos, cool experiments, new technologies, hands-on learning, and live performances! September 7th, 10am-4pm in Colorado Springs, CO.
Continue ReadingHow Rube Goldberg Would Take Photos
This has to be one of the more impressive Rube Goldberg machines we’ve seen here at MAKE and I think photography buffs will especially enjoy the unconventional use of photo equipment to take a few pictures. While you watch, keep an eye out for a hat tip to OK Go’s own Rube Goldberg machine. And […]
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Melvin The Magical Mixed Media Machine
Netherlands-based design firm HEY HEY HEY created this Rube Goldberg machine which promotes its own identity: Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) can be described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg’s do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often […]
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Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine
It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to water a single flower.
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