For those who love the idea of Goldberg Machines....
First, the Honda ad that inspired these guys. Pretty cool looking, but just watch what it inspired.
Now I feel the need to set one of these up. Who has a free 8 hours or so?
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Well, I'd love to watch it being set up, but I doubt I have the engineering chops to do more than fetch and carry. Still, cool indeed.
Ok a few things to start off with, perhaps it is just me (which is possible as I have had very little sleep, by which non for 24 hours when I saw the Honda ad) but why do the wheels, which are not going at a spectacular speed keep going up the ramp after they transfer their energy? My understanding of physics tells me they should roll back down hill instead.... but I'm a paleo student not a physics.....
And another thing as cool as the idea was, it still kind of sucked for a Goldberg machine. I mean 22 steps to unveil the credits... pathetic. I say if you are going to design a machine that does absolutely nothing, at least make it do absolutely nothing in a big way. The record as far as I can find was 113 steps, I figure we can do one with 200 steps minimal. But that's just me.
-Tj
Well, as for the wheel, from what I saw on the Slashdot conversation, they set it so that the center of the wheel wasn't the same as the C of G, so that it continued on. And I agree, we should have at least 200 steps if we make one.
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