Rube Goldberg Time!

Ahhh, it's the Vanden Physics rite of passage - Rube Goldberg. Put your physics concept know-how to work and construct a device that'll dispense some hand sanitizer. There are lots of examples of Rube Goldberg out there - just search YouTube or look at past years projects linked on my Class Assignments web page. Here's a popular one on the net these past few months...



If only you guys had a crew of 50 and a warehouse. They have mentioned in an interview that they purposily placed the most difficult steps in the first 30 secounds, so that when it failed they didn't have to reset the entire machine. Hmm? Worth thinking about. To learn more about the production of this video, check out their How it was Made segment on YouTube.

The Colbert Report just did a simple parody of this one the other night...

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Intro - Rube Goldberg Machine
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