From JWZ‘s LiveJournal today comes a plethora of Rube Goldberg machines. JWZ kicked it off with this link to 12 minutes of what appear to be interstitials for a Japanese TV show apparently called “Pitagora Suittchi,” or “Pythagora Switch.”
Very cool stuff.
Then of course the comments filled up with other cool machines.
There is The Contraption – created by some students at St. Johns College in Cambridge. I really love the Rubik’s Cube used as a two axis pivot – that’s clever. There is also a second camera angle video here.
Then there is the 30 minute Der Lauf der Dinge – a German machine that is huge and astonishing. And supposedly where Honda got their idea for their The Cog video.
Here is a pretty clean version of The Cog and the parody by 118 118 (which is pretty funny.) There is a cleaner version of the parody on their website.
For more non-Rube Goldberg fun, watch the Honda Power of Scream video and then 118 118’s parody here.
