Showing posts with label Rube Goldberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rube Goldberg. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
"Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention" opens at Children's Museum
Kids and families are now enjoying the new exhibit at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh called "Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention."
Friday, November 15, 2013
Rube Goldberg — INSANE Domino Tricks!
3 months of work and 25,000 knuckles to show the destructive power of dominoes.
Take a closer look at three basic app monetization models that will be fundamental in 2018, make your choice carefully and remember, that without a good business development strategy, your product will likely fail.
Take a closer look at three basic app monetization models that will be fundamental in 2018, make your choice carefully and remember, that without a good business development strategy, your product will likely fail.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
2012 CPEP Rube Goldberg Sponsored by Stanley Tools.
Дизайн корпусной мебели вы можете посмотреть на Фото шкафов купе изготовленные компанией Купе-Хаус.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Rube Goldberg Machine 3D concept
This is our version of a Rube Goldberg Machine, written & rendered with Povray and ffmpeg, made for a university project. Many thx to the team, many thx to jolin newcomer for making free music, downloadable at jamendo:
http://www.jamendo.com/de/track/464039
song: jolin newcomer gladiolus Rag, Scott Joplin
чернигов дизайн
Friday, August 29, 2008
Rube Goldberg Machine (Turns On Ipod)
Строительная компания Верхолаз выполнит в кратчайшие сроки КРОВЕЛЬНЫЕ РАБОТЫ любой сложности по очень выгодным ценам. Также специалисты компании произведут качественную покраску фасада в Чернигове, Киеве, Львове.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Rube Goldberg Project for Physics
This is a student project in the exploration of energy transformations via a Rube Goldberg process.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Discovery Casting Rube Goldberg Reality Show
I'm generally not one to the get behind reality TV shows. Honestly, since the damned things first exploded in this country, I've considered them a blight on the cesspool that is American popular culture. That said, occasionally I catch wind of a concept that I can't help but love.
Take, for example, Super Rubes (currently in the casting process). Stupid name, sure, but according to Boing Boing, it has the sort of setup only a bona fide dork could love. A one-hour weekly show set to be broadcast on the Discovery Channel, Super Rubes features a team of inventors who create massive "Chain Reaction Machines" to accomplish simple tasks, like turning on lights, using as many steps as possible.
The name, of course, is an homage to the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose strip was based on such outlandish devices. His name has since become the default description for these sorts of machines, and has lent itself to contests in which they're concocted.
It's only fitting that someone invoke his spirit to harness a reality show for the sake of honest-to-god entertainment--perhaps the most inefficient bit of machinery yet.
Link realitywanted.com
Take, for example, Super Rubes (currently in the casting process). Stupid name, sure, but according to Boing Boing, it has the sort of setup only a bona fide dork could love. A one-hour weekly show set to be broadcast on the Discovery Channel, Super Rubes features a team of inventors who create massive "Chain Reaction Machines" to accomplish simple tasks, like turning on lights, using as many steps as possible.
The name, of course, is an homage to the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose strip was based on such outlandish devices. His name has since become the default description for these sorts of machines, and has lent itself to contests in which they're concocted.
It's only fitting that someone invoke his spirit to harness a reality show for the sake of honest-to-god entertainment--perhaps the most inefficient bit of machinery yet.
Link realitywanted.com
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Cological Marble Run Construction Set from ThinkGeek
Ever heard of Rube Goldburg? I’ve discovered that people who don’t know who Rube Goldberg is know of his work. He was the one who drew these odd contraptions that worked in odd ways, such as a roller skate attacked to a needle, which pops a balloon, which in turn does something else.
Goldburg’s contraptions always started with a ball rolling, and that is what the Cological Marble Run Construction Set is supposed to play off of. This little playset from Think Geek will give you everything that you want for ball-rolling action better than the Mouse Trap game. This will especially be popular with the Lego crowd, as they can make machines that work with no bumpy parts to inhibit the rolling of the marble.
The Cological (I have no idea what that means) Marble Run Construction Set has twenty-three types of mechanisms such as little cars or mallets until it ends with a tiny flag that comes up. There isn’t really much as far as instruction is concerned, just to let the user know what type of toys they have to play with. I believe it is up to the user to let their imagination come up with great toys.
If you want it, you can get it now for $69.95 from thinkgeek.com
Cological Marble Run Construction Set In Action
See also:
Rube Goldberg Sandwich Maker
Nesquik Rube-Goldberg Machine
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Awash in freshwater data streams
Mike Broomall and three of his colleagues at the Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale examined the green garbage bin with the pensive concentration of a team of surgeons.
"All I know is this thing's got to be tight," said Broomall, a research technician, fitting a black drainage pipe through a hole at the bottom of the trash can. The bins eventually will be used as quarantine tanks to study four species of fish native to the Susquehanna River.
The staff at the Stroud Research Center has something of a Rube Goldberg complex. They can turn a Coleman Cooler and some plastic tubing like the kind sold at Home Depot into a cozy love nest for breeding mayflies.
This ingenuity (or eccentricity) takes place daily at the water-research laboratory, tucked away on 900 acres of hilly farmland in southern Chester County.
Stroud scientists have studied the world's streams, rivers, and watersheds since Lyndon B. Johnson was president. This year the center is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and next Sunday it will be one of several environmental and conservation groups to benefit from the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup steeplechase races.
Running on a $4 million budget and a staff of 50, researchers here have investigated the quality of New York's water supply, the Amazon River, the tropical streams in northern Costa Rica, and the Schuylkill. Stroud likely is the only research institution in North America focused solely on freshwater streams and rivers, according to Bern Sweeney, president and director.
At the heart of Stroud's research is the White Clay Creek. Scientists have catalogued the stream's temperature, flow, chemistry, and biology every day for the last 40 years. They compare these data to those collected on every other freshwater body they study, including the Amazon. The shin-deep stream is about seven feet wide and looks surprisingly small for having such a big role.
Stroud scientists also recently finished examining the water quality of the Schuylkill. According to Sweeney, 50 percent of the water quality has been lost, mostly because of deforestation and industrial and residential development. The goal for researchers, Sweeney said, is to use this data to figure how to allow for human activity and development without compromising water quality.
The center is also experimenting with planting 6,000 trees along the east branch of the Brandywine Creek to act as pollution buffers.
Constructed to look like a Quaker farmhouse, the Stroud Center has a brick and clapboard exterior and a gabled roof. But inside, abstract murals on the walls add contrast to the rustic wood and stonework.
These contrasts between urban and rural, modern and quaint, are apparent throughout the center. The scientists' offices are cluttered with stacks of papers and books, looking like typical academic suites except for the knee-high water boots stashed under desks.
One of the original founders, William Bolton Stroud, for whom the center is named, wore work boots and khakis to the center. Stroud walked a mile to the center from his farm, using a machete to cut down plants that were harmful to the creek.
When he wasn't hacking weeds, he enjoyed a buttoned-down role on the board of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Stroud's wife, Joan, helped champion the center's educational programs. Stroud currently educates 3,000 students each year and provides professional development to more than 200 teachers.
The other cofounder, Dr. Ruth Patrick, was in her 60s when she helped establish the center. Patrick split her time between the water-research center and serving as the head of the limnology department, which studies bodies of freshwater, at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Sweeney, who joined the center in his early 20s as a University of Pennsylvania graduate student, recalled that Patrick had a remarkable intensity and vivacity.
"When she talked to us, it would never be, 'What did you think of the Phillies game?' " said Sweeney. "It was always, 'What new have you learned today?' She was challenging us every day."
The Strouds passed away - Joan in 1985 and William in 2005. Patrick recently celebrated her 100th birthday and still has an office at the academy.
Sweeney said he hoped the center's work would help ease a "global freshwater crisis."
American consumption depends on 150 gallons per person a day, he said, whether it's for drinking, manufacturing automobile tires, or producing light bulbs. By comparison, people in India use 10 gallons a day. Sweeney said it's imperative to conserve and maintain high-quality freshwater.
"Every drop counts," he said.
"All I know is this thing's got to be tight," said Broomall, a research technician, fitting a black drainage pipe through a hole at the bottom of the trash can. The bins eventually will be used as quarantine tanks to study four species of fish native to the Susquehanna River.
The staff at the Stroud Research Center has something of a Rube Goldberg complex. They can turn a Coleman Cooler and some plastic tubing like the kind sold at Home Depot into a cozy love nest for breeding mayflies.
This ingenuity (or eccentricity) takes place daily at the water-research laboratory, tucked away on 900 acres of hilly farmland in southern Chester County.
Stroud scientists have studied the world's streams, rivers, and watersheds since Lyndon B. Johnson was president. This year the center is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and next Sunday it will be one of several environmental and conservation groups to benefit from the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup steeplechase races.
Running on a $4 million budget and a staff of 50, researchers here have investigated the quality of New York's water supply, the Amazon River, the tropical streams in northern Costa Rica, and the Schuylkill. Stroud likely is the only research institution in North America focused solely on freshwater streams and rivers, according to Bern Sweeney, president and director.
At the heart of Stroud's research is the White Clay Creek. Scientists have catalogued the stream's temperature, flow, chemistry, and biology every day for the last 40 years. They compare these data to those collected on every other freshwater body they study, including the Amazon. The shin-deep stream is about seven feet wide and looks surprisingly small for having such a big role.
Stroud scientists also recently finished examining the water quality of the Schuylkill. According to Sweeney, 50 percent of the water quality has been lost, mostly because of deforestation and industrial and residential development. The goal for researchers, Sweeney said, is to use this data to figure how to allow for human activity and development without compromising water quality.
The center is also experimenting with planting 6,000 trees along the east branch of the Brandywine Creek to act as pollution buffers.
Constructed to look like a Quaker farmhouse, the Stroud Center has a brick and clapboard exterior and a gabled roof. But inside, abstract murals on the walls add contrast to the rustic wood and stonework.
These contrasts between urban and rural, modern and quaint, are apparent throughout the center. The scientists' offices are cluttered with stacks of papers and books, looking like typical academic suites except for the knee-high water boots stashed under desks.
One of the original founders, William Bolton Stroud, for whom the center is named, wore work boots and khakis to the center. Stroud walked a mile to the center from his farm, using a machete to cut down plants that were harmful to the creek.
When he wasn't hacking weeds, he enjoyed a buttoned-down role on the board of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Stroud's wife, Joan, helped champion the center's educational programs. Stroud currently educates 3,000 students each year and provides professional development to more than 200 teachers.
The other cofounder, Dr. Ruth Patrick, was in her 60s when she helped establish the center. Patrick split her time between the water-research center and serving as the head of the limnology department, which studies bodies of freshwater, at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Sweeney, who joined the center in his early 20s as a University of Pennsylvania graduate student, recalled that Patrick had a remarkable intensity and vivacity.
"When she talked to us, it would never be, 'What did you think of the Phillies game?' " said Sweeney. "It was always, 'What new have you learned today?' She was challenging us every day."
The Strouds passed away - Joan in 1985 and William in 2005. Patrick recently celebrated her 100th birthday and still has an office at the academy.
Sweeney said he hoped the center's work would help ease a "global freshwater crisis."
American consumption depends on 150 gallons per person a day, he said, whether it's for drinking, manufacturing automobile tires, or producing light bulbs. By comparison, people in India use 10 gallons a day. Sweeney said it's imperative to conserve and maintain high-quality freshwater.
"Every drop counts," he said.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Rube Goldberg Sandwich Maker
This was a project for a 3d animation class to create a rube goldberg machine. i know it would never work in real life and it is by no means accurate, but it looks pretty cool i think.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
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