Project14 | Using Rube Goldberg Projects to Consider Design Engineering

RE: Project14 | Using Rube Goldberg Projects to Consider Design Engineering

Workshopshed — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:03:37 GMT

Over here in the UK, we usually class this kind of machine a "Heathrobinson" after the artist Willian Heath Robinson who drew such wacky inventions back in the 1900s.

For those who visit London there's a museum of his art in Pinner, North West London.

https://www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org/

RE: Project14 | Using Rube Goldberg Projects to Consider Design Engineering

Workshopshed — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:50:29 GMT

Another film reference, the automatic dog feeder in Back To the Future

Automatic dog feeder | Futurepedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjX1jU9pQeY:740:466]

And here's how to make one with Little bits

https://littlebits.cc/projects/doc-brown-s-automatic-dog-feeder

RE: Project14 | Using Rube Goldberg Projects to Consider Design Engineering

shabaz — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:13:03 GMT

The truffle shuffle.. The Goonies was the height of cinema [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-298ac113-abc9-4609-8f06-b1848bf7806c/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16] I still recall watching it for the first time when it was broadcast on TV and all the kids at school talking about it the next day - it was that awesome!

RE: Project14 | Using Rube Goldberg Projects to Consider Design Engineering

Workshopshed — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:40:44 GMT

There's a few fun things on this theme in the film Malcom - Malcolm (1986) - IMDb

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpgF2HIALw:740:466]