The Lunch Feeder Rube Goldberg Machine Feeds You a Meal

Posted on 05/10/2018 by Conner Flynn

You know how it is. You’re working hard at the office, and then you get hungry. But if you stop your work to get some food, your productivity will suffer. What can you do? You either go hungry or fall behind on your tasks. Well, that’s not the case if you have The Lunch Feeder.

This Rube Goldberg machine is genius. It was built by Joseph of Joseph’s Machines and feeds him a four-course meal. Specifically a brussel sprout, hotdog with ketchup, asparagus spear, and soup. Now, this guy can work and eat at the same time like a productive worker ant.

Never forget to feed yourself again. And since we don’t have robots that will take care of that task for us, this is the next best thing. I mean, yeah, it’s a lot of work to put into something just to avoid falling behind in your work but nevermind that. It’s a machine that feeds you and that’s all that matters. Great job Joseph. Hopefully, that asparagus spear doesn’t poke you in the eye though.

[via Laughing Squid via Geekologie]

This Rube Goldberg Machine Takes 9 Minutes to Pour a Glass of Lemonade

Posted on 20/09/2018 by Conner Flynn

When you could just walk over to the fridge, nine minutes seems like a long time to wait for a glass of lemonade. In this case, it’s totally worth it. What you are looking at is a ridiculously long Rube Goldberg machine that spans the entire house just to pour a few glasses of lemonade. I mean, I would have poured you a glass if you just asked. There’s no need to build a huge machine. Geesh.

This overly-complicated contraption was built by a team of talented machine builders: Sprice Machines, DoodleChaos, TheInvention11, Hevesh5, 5MadMovieMakers, DrComplicated, and SmileyPeaceFun. Needless to say, they really, really like lemonade. This was their first ever house-wide machine project and probably their last if anyone’s wife lives in this house. The machine travels through the kitchen, a kid’s room, bathroom, office, parent’s room, living room, patio, and backyard while using everyday objects to eventually achieve its goal.

This machine is one of the cooler ones I’ve seen in some time and superbly designed, except for, you know, the fact that you have to wait nine minutes to get a drink. This must have taken a long time to set up, and lots of trial and error. But the promise of that sweet and tart lemon drink must have driven them forward. Minute Maid? Meh. We can beat that with Nine-Minute Made lemonade!

[via The Awesomer via Geekologie]

This Crazy Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Tape Dispenser

Posted on 30/04/2018 by Conner Flynn

What if I told you that it takes a full five minutes to get a single piece of tape out of this insane Rube Goldberg machine? Hey, it’s about the journey, not the tape. At least that’s what I would keep telling myself if I had to wait on this machine to get said tape.

This overly complicated machine was built by Youtuber DaksDominos. It took him two months to put it together, and he had to get through 187 failed attempts before finally getting this video of a success. The amount of stuff happening on this machine is crazy. Remember, he had to set everything up again each time. That’s crazy. Isn’t this the definition of insanity? How does anyone have that much patience? Or maybe he just really needed a piece of tape that badly.

Anyway, you can watch the whole process right here without having to invest two months and 187 failed attempts. That’s the benefit of letting someone else do all of the work for you. It just goes to show you that with enough SOLO cups, ping pong balls, Hot Wheels tracks, and tape, you can do almost anything, as long as you don’t mind that it takes forever to do.

[via The Awesomer via Sploid]

Relax and Enjoy This Rube Goldberg Machine

Posted on 08/02/2018 by Conner Flynn

I’ve always wanted to build my own Rube Goldberg machine. Sadly I lack the free time and the expertise, but maybe I could build a 2D version like this one day. Who am I kidding? This thing is way too sophisticated for me.

Check out this minute-and-a-half run of Kaplamino’s ‘Blue Marble’ 2D Rube Goldberg style machine. Another reason I won’t be attempting something like this anytime soon? It took him over 3 months complete this masterpiece, and he estimates more than 500 fails. Yeah, Rube Goldberg machines take a lot of time and work. I’ll just enjoy this one in the video.

Kaplamino always wanted to make a big chain reaction in one take with a 2D style machine and he did an amazing job here. This machine has what is called a “one marble path”. That means you have to follow the same marble for all the tricks. Because everything is in a tilted plane, the hard part was to find different ways of having the marble riding up along the table. Some of the solutions for that were magnets, a falling weight, and a catapult. I find this video super relaxing, especially since I didn’t have to build it.

[via Geekologie via Neatorama]

This Role of Tape Rolling Through an Obstacle Course Is So Cool

Posted on 10/03/2017 by Shane McGlaun

Give a geek some cardboard, wood, and a roll of tape and he will cook up a very slick little obstacle course for said roll of tape. I don’t know what it is about this course that I find so mesmerizing.

I’m watching and thinking no way is that tape going to make it through the the slots cut in that cardboard, but it does. I could watch this video all day.

It sort of reminds me of the start of the TV show Elementary, but this clip comes from a classic Japanese kids show called Pythagora Switch, which featured all kinds of fun Rube Goldberg-esque machines like this. you can find more of them over on YouTuber KeN KeN’s channel.

[via The Awesomer via Laughing Squid]

Microsoft wrote an OK Go music video to DNA

Posted on 07/07/2016 by Engadget RSS Feed

OK Go's song "This Too Shall Pass" is merely a serviceable song with an interesting video that features contraptions inspired by Rube Goldberg. Microsoft and the University of Washington have deemed it important enough to write it to the largest DNA...

The Sunday Morning Breakfast Machine Is Good for Any Morning

Posted on 04/07/2016 by Conner Flynn

Two friends worked together to make this cool Rube Goldberg machine designed to fix breakfast for their wives. Peter Browne designed the mechanics, while his friend Mervyn Huggett handled the electronics. The idea is to make people laugh, but it still had to work. Mission accomplished.

The Sunday Morning Breakfast Machine will cook a soft-boiled egg, toast, and tea or coffee depending which you select. It even delivers you the latest newspaper and clears the dishes. The extra lights, gadgets, and toys are what make people laugh, but this thing actually does an impressive job of making breakfast.

It took about a thousand hours of work over three months to complete it. This has got to be a hit with their wives.

[via Uproxx via Neatorama]

LEGO & Raspberry Pi OCR Hack Now Reads Books Aloud, Still Sounds Horrible

Posted on 12/05/2014 by Lambert Varias

Last year we featured Dexter Industries’ Bookreader, a device mostly made of LEGO and a Raspberry Pi that can read text from a Nexus 7 tablet. It seems like the contraption was a hit, but people kept telling the company to make one that can read actual books on its own. So Dexter Industries made the Bookreader 2.

The Bookreader 2 reads just like its predecessor. A Raspberry Pi Camera capture an image of the page to be read. An OCR program extracts text out of the image. Finally a text-to-speech program reads the extracted text aloud in an impatient and cold tone. In case you need a reminder of how it sounds, here’s the Bookreader at work:

What made the Bookreader 2 challenging is that it had to turn a book’s pages as well. The engineering and the math behind that seemingly simple task are more complicated compared to aiming an arm to push a tablet’s screen. To accomplish this, Dexter Industries used two EV3 Mindstorms motors. One motor powers a wheel to lift a page, and the other motor rotates an arm 360º to turn the page. Check out Dexter Industries’ guide to see how you can build your own Bookreader 2.

[via Hack A Day]

LEGO & Raspberry Pi Reads eBooks Aloud: eReader Reader

Posted on 17/12/2013 by Lambert Varias

Dexter Industries makes a Raspberry Pi add-on called BrickPi, which connects the ultra cheap computer to LEGO’s NXT Mindstorms parts. To show off what you can do with its kit, they made a robot that reads eBooks aloud.

The BrickPi Reader was designed to read from the Kindle app on the Nexus 7 tablet. Aside from a Raspberry Pi and LEGO, the BrickPi Reader also has a Raspberry Pi camera. The camera takes a picture of an eReader’s screen. The Raspberry Pi then uses an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program to extract text from the picture. A Text-to-Speech engine reads the extracted text aloud. Finally, its Mindstorms arm taps on the Nexus 7′s screen to turn the eBook’s page. When you think about it, it’s basically a Rube Goldberg machine.

But don’t say goodbye to Audible just yet. Not only does it take the BrickPi Reader a few minutes to convert a single page, its “voice” is also horrible. Maybe it’s soothing to baby robots.

I love how they show a guy wanting to read an eBook while driving, as if their finished contraption could be used in a vehicle. Still, who would’ve thought LEGO could read?

[Dexter Industries via Make:]

Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Hanukkah Menorah

Posted on 05/12/2012 by Craziest Gadgets Jeff

rube goldberg menorah Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Hanukkah Menorah
Happy Hanukkah to all those Craziest Gadgets readers celebrating the festival of lights starting this weekend. A few mechanical engineering students from Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology) have created a Rube Goldberg machine (appropriately enough, as Rube would have celebrated the holiday) to light a Chanukah menorah in as many steps as possible. Using helium balloons, dominoes, toy cars, a bicycle tire, some nitroglycerin, and eventually a robotic arm, the team created a Chanukkah miracle of engineering as seen in the video:

Apparently that’s how Israeli geeks light the menorah. And I believe we haven’t use this spelling yet: Chanuka. Ok bases covered. Have a great holiday everyone, try not to eat too many latkes (try).

Rube Goldberg Machine Lights a Hanukkah Menorah

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The Lunch Feeder Rube Goldberg Machine Feeds You a Meal

This Rube Goldberg Machine Takes 9 Minutes to Pour a Glass of Lemonade

This Crazy Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Tape Dispenser

Relax and Enjoy This Rube Goldberg Machine

This Role of Tape Rolling Through an Obstacle Course Is So Cool

Microsoft wrote an OK Go music video to DNA

The Sunday Morning Breakfast Machine Is Good for Any Morning

LEGO & Raspberry Pi OCR Hack Now Reads Books Aloud, Still Sounds Horrible

LEGO & Raspberry Pi Reads eBooks Aloud: eReader Reader

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