Rube Goldberg machine contest 2008

Submitted by Deleted Accounts on April 6, 2008 - 2:16am.

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Just popped up on engadget.com, the national Rube Goldberg machine contest of 2008. This years challenge was to make a hamburger in no less than 20 steps ..

here's the article with a peak at this years coverage. (blog.makezine.com)

Rube Goldberg is well known for his political cartoons, usually involving "contraptions" that make a one or two step process take a much more ridiculous, multiple step and usually outrageous path to accomplish the same result. Nerds love em..

edit - posted the video rachel linked to.. and added to group "amazing video society"

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damn you all

Submitted by Robert Logue on April 6, 2008 - 9:49pm.

damn.. how deliciously distracting. Now excuse me while I chase ants around my apartment. I swear, its all part of the essay writing process. huh, what's that? gotta go.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence" - Gandhi

hellz yes

Submitted by Rachel Ayres on April 6, 2008 - 10:47am.

I LOVE rube goldberg machines.

If only I had the time and proper materials available to me....

Some of the pictures of those machines are really intense!
I spied a stuffed killer whale, a mr. potato head, a pool ball, a whisk, and what appears to ba a series of small gravestones??

When is this competition coming to london!?

I hope the video is up soon.

-r.