Household Rube Goldberg Machine

By John Farrier in Everything Else on Feb 19, 2010 at 10:16 pm


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Tom Baynham and Ben Tyers, graduate students in mechanical engineering at Cambridge, created this enormous Rube Goldberg machine that stretches over an entire residence. They call it “The Contraption II.”

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  1. gmoneydbm
    Feb 20th, 2010 at 12:33 am

    The chess section of this Goldberg was incredible. I found it absolutely fascinating!

  2. matt
    Feb 20th, 2010 at 7:28 am

    Awesome! I loved the moving chess pieces!

  3. Morgan
    Feb 20th, 2010 at 8:02 am

    Very neat!!!

  4. ted
    Feb 20th, 2010 at 9:45 am

    Very imaginative, but it’s better when these are done in one take. Too many opportunities for cheating.

    One edit when the red ball appears to have stopped too soon.

    Another edit when the slinky was going down the stairs.

    And a few other opportunities along the way.

    The chess pieces appear to have been done by stop-motion animation. Or were they done with magnets underneath? If magnets, then it was an excellent idea. If stop-motion, then there’s another cheat.

  5. lapidus
    Feb 20th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    too many cuts.


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