Some years ago the "Nottinghack" made a Rube Goldberg Machine as well called it at the time and I made this blog post about it. These incredibly pointless machines can be very very difficult to make work. They also teach you more about physics in one day than you could learn from a book in a month. As mentioned in my previous blog post on the subject Adam Sadowsky engineered the OK GO Rube Goldberg Machine for the RGB version of "This too shall pass".
These machines do not have to be huge to be impressive. Look at these from the Japanese children's educational programme ピタゴラスイッチ Pitagora Suitchi Pythagora Switch
These simple machines use mostly grooved wood, cups, marbles, counterweights, baffles, gates, sew-saws, pulleys and so on. Marble runs are a great project for any age group and can be completed in a very small or a much larger area.
One of my favourite Rube Goldberg Machines is this one called "Creme That Egg" which is dedicated to the "World's Most Tolerant House Mates. 30 hot melt glue sticks and 300 drawing pins".
and also this Star Wars themed machine just for it's pure geeky-ness.
I have a new Rube Goldberg Machine type project in the offing. Watch this space!
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