These machines are so cool!

[GJB93]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8P4fE8Yn0

They were made in Japan

 

[kikie]

I like these things too.

 

[FoolKiller]

Since you like them so much I suggest trying to find the game so you can make your own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

 

[F1GTR]

http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0670811062646

 

[slider-s15]

awesome. audi used to have an advert that was one of those made of bits of audi. i'll try and post a link for the video later.

 

[FoolKiller]

Or build your own and enter the contest:

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/

 

[Flerbizky]

awesome. audi used to have an advert that was one of those made of bits of audi. i'll try and post a link for the video later.

Wasn't that a Honda ad ?... That's how I remember it at least..

 

[Flerbizky]

And you guys should find a movie called :

The Way Things Go"... Now THAT is an incredible clip... Almost 30 minutes of tires, planks, bags and chemical reactions...

 

[slider-s15]

thats probably why i can't find it! i'll try that.

found it. it was a honda ad....
honda ad

 

[Danoff]

We did something like this in college called the Rube Goldberg competition. We'd have to accomplish a task (like peel an apple), with a machine that wasn't allowed to have any compressed air or chemical reactions. There were also rules about how big the machine could be and how long it took to reset. I think there was also a minimum number of 30 steps, but the objective was to go way over that.

It was quite a bit more difficult than these look since they had free range of space and, in most cases, only put up a sign. In some cases, they just land a ball next to a sign, which is especially easy.

Of course, we worked our asses off on the Rube Goldberg competition, and the machine had to work 99% of the time or you could be guaranteed it would fail in front of the judges.

 

[socomplayer2]

those things are pretty cool, but the audio make me wanna stab somthing

 

[F1GTR]

thats probably why i can't find it! i'll try that.

found it. it was a honda ad....
honda ad

There's a 'Making Of' video in my post.

 

[FoolKiller]

We did something like this in college called the Rube Goldberg competition. We'd have to accomplish a task (like peel an apple), with a machine that wasn't allowed to have any compressed air or chemical reactions. There were also rules about how big the machine could be and how long it took to reset. I think there was also a minimum number of 30 steps, but the objective was to go way over that.

It was quite a bit more difficult than these look since they had free range of space and, in most cases, only put up a sign. In some cases, they just land a ball next to a sign, which is especially easy.

Of course, we worked our asses off on the Rube Goldberg competition, and the machine had to work 99% of the time or you could be guaranteed it would fail in front of the judges.

Post #6, I linked the competition.

 

[Jim Prower]

Gotta love what engineers do with too much time on their hands.

 

[FoolKiller]

Gotta love what engineers do with too much time on their hands.

What else are they going to do, surf the net?

 

[Danoff]

What else are they going to do, surf the net?

Go post on GTPlanet?

 

[Bram Turismo]

Lovely machinery there though, lots of creativity. Especially the one with the spoon (it was a spoon, wasn't it?) was 👍

 

[Keef]

The Honda ad is amazing, but I have one question. Why do the wheels roll up the ramp like they do? That just doesn't seem right. I can see how the first wheel (the one not on the ramp) could hit the second wheel and make it jump up the ramp a little, but there's no way that second wheel could go all the way up to the third, and then transfer all of it's energy to make the hird roll up just as far. I know it's a commercial, but it ought to be real.

 

[F1GTR]

I think they've been weighted. Only a tiny amount of CGI was used (for the reflections on the Accord's windscreen).

 

[Jedi2016]

The Honda ad is amazing, but I have one question. Why do the wheels roll up the ramp like they do? That just doesn't seem right. I can see how the first wheel (the one not on the ramp) could hit the second wheel and make it jump up the ramp a little, but there's no way that second wheel could go all the way up to the third, and then transfer all of it's energy to make the hird roll up just as far. I know it's a commercial, but it ought to be real.

It is real. Your mistake is assuming those are normal tires. They're counterweighted and carefully balanced. The weight is balanced at the top of the tire, so when it's bumped, there's enough weight to make the tire appear to roll uphill, but it's actually just the weight moving to the bottom.

 

[DustDriver]

The Coke-Mentos Version:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-274981837129821058&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en

well, it's more like domino, but it's a bit like these machines

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

The OP videos, by the way, are from a Japanese children's show called, if I recall correctly, "Pythagoras Switch", which is what the singer is trying to pronounce.

 

[Keef]

I think they've been weighted. Only a tiny amount of CGI was used (for the reflections on the Accord's windscreen).

It is real. Your mistake is assuming those are normal tires. They're counterweighted and carefully balanced. The weight is balanced at the top of the tire, so when it's bumped, there's enough weight to make the tire appear to roll uphill, but it's actually just the weight moving to the bottom.

Thanks guys. I was thinking that, but I had my doubts. They must have put a lot of weight on those wheels. I can see how it works.