Robe Goldberg Pancake-omatic
Youtube Direkteggs, via Gizmo
Eine Pfannkuchen-Rube-Goldberg-Maschine namens „Pancake-omatic“.
The Pancake-omatic took a team of four design engineers more than 200 hours to construct and a further 100 to test. The device which will go on display at the Design Museum later this month, uses a wide selection of household objects including an old-style gramophone and an electric whisk and features a luxury nest throne for the hen to lay her egg in – we think it’s the best invention to eat the most delicious pancakes!
Rube Goldberg Parkour
Youtube Direktparkour, via Ronny
Nettes Viral eines Brauseherstellers, in dem Parkourläufer durch eine riesige Rube Goldberg Maschine rennen. Sweet!
Melvin, the traveling, blogging Rube Goldberg Machine
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Vor rund einem Jahr bloggte ich über Melvin, die bloggende Rube Goldberg Maschine. Die hat jetzt ‘nen kleinen Bruder, der rumreist, Bilder seiner Umgebung auf Facebook postet, Postkarten verschickt und seine Reise per GPS und Google Maps dokumentiert.
Melvin the Mini Machine uses a smartphone and bespoke code and software to determine its location, write messages and recognize the people around him. Like the other parts of the machine, most of it is purpose-built and other parts are adaptations of (open source) software.
The phone we use is a HTC Desire running Android 2.3.3 which was given to us by Blue Mango Interactive. We use an app custom built by Michael Schifferling that takes a picture and sends it to a webserver, where an image URL and GPS data are added to a MySQL database. Still with us? [...]
Once a picture is uploaded after it’s been processed, the data and the picture are published to Facebook and Twitter using the API from both platforms. Melvin’s travels page runs the Google Maps API with a custom layout. And last but not least, the GPS data link uploaded by the phone to the markers on the map is a custom jQuery script.
Selfplaying Games in a Rube-Goldberg-Machine
Den hier hatte mir Stefan von der Next Level Conference schon an Weihnachten geschickt, aber da hatte ich bereits die Füße hochgelegt: Game-Art: Rube-Goldberg-Lauf-der-Dinge-Electronic-Circuit-Feedback-Machine
Während der Next Level Conference haben die Kölner Medienkünstler [vom Paidia Institut] ein Labor aufgebaut und an einer Versuchsanordnung gearbeitet, die aus einer Reihenschaltung sich selbst spielender Computerspiele besteht: Die »Rube-Goldberg-Lauf-der-Dinge-Electronic-Circuit-Feedback-Machine«. Als Vorarbeit für die Maschine mit dem langen Namen dienen sich selbst spielende Spiele als geschlossene Feedback-Systeme, mit denen das Kölner Kollektiv schon auf dem PLATINE Festival im Sommer experimentiert hat. Die Maschine erfüllt den Zweck, einen virtuellen Golfball in dem Spiel Wii Sports mittels zielgerichtetem Putt per Wii-Fernbedienung fachmännisch einzulochen.
Hier der Ablauf der Rube-Goldberg-Installation im einzelnen:
Plugging in the power connector (A) turns on robotic hand (B) which plays the Atari classic Decathlon hurdle game (C). As runner passes the finish line (D) light dependent resistor sends signal to solenoid (E) that presses a button on a game controller (F) which launches tortoise shell in Mario Kart killing Luigi (G) causing a black screen detected by light dependent resistor (H). Motor gets activated and coils up string that pulls mouse against hammer (J). Smashed mouse button clicks on Hyperlink (K) thereby sending a signal to Second Life having a giant mobile phone appear (L). Second Life avatar clicks on virtual mobile (M) causing text message to be sent to real mobile (N).
Vibration of phone is detected by piezo sensor that activates solenoid which repeatedly presses a keyboard button (O) allowing a terrorist with a flashlight in the game Counter Strike to move forward (P). The light is detected by a light dependent resistor which causes a counter terrorist player to eliminate the terrorist (Q). The shot is detected by a piezo sensor (R) that activates a servo motor which opens a Play Station 2 CD tray (S), thereby a weight connected to a toy gun falls down (T). Gun shoots a wooden plank attached to remote control (U). Toy helicopter lifts off and pulls a mouse to the side (V) causing a virtual helicopter in the game Battlefield to go down (W). Crash is detected by light dependent resistor which turns on marble run that plays Winter Games bob sleight (X). Marble hits golf ball, golf ball hits Wii remote fixed with a rope to the ceiling (Y). Wii remote swings and sinks the putt in the Wii sports golf game (Z).
If somebody gets shot by gun or electrified move away before cops arrive.
Bookmarks for July 15th: Astronaut-Training, Half-Life, Donkey Kong, British Wrestling Posters
HALF-LIFE – Singularity Collapse – YouTube
GHOSTRIDERS II on Vimeo
Welcome to Titusville on Vimeo: Welcome to Titusville shows the impact of the 30 year Space Shuttle program on the residents of Titusville, a city that lies only a few miles from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2D Photography Rube Goldberg – YouTube
Leica Lenses (English) on Vimeo: Every Leica lens is hand-crafted and goes through meticulous manufacturing processes to uphold the quality and precision that Leica defines and customers have come to expect.
How It’s Made: The Impossible Project – YouTube: How It's Made takes us through how The Impossible Project manufactures its Instant Film for Polaroid cameras.
John Lasseter – A Day in a Life – Full Length Documentary – YouTube
Silverback Gorilla turns cameraman at Durrell – YouTube: Ya Kwanza the conservation Trusts 27 year old silverback gorilla became adept at snapping close ups of himself with a high definition camera which was encased in an indestructible box and covered with tasty honey and oats.
Let’s take back the Internet! – YouTube: In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a "Magna Charta" moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection.
Online Schools | State of the Internet 2011: Like any classic hero, the Internet grew from humble beginnings as a tiny speck to become the legend that it is today. The very first “instant message” wasn’t even a whole word before it broke the entire system, but it sparked a fantastic fire of possibilities. Now, we can IM friends from our phones while we browse Facebook and send a few tweets about our indigestion from last night’s cheesesteak, perhaps while taking care of that indigestion. We can email our friends in Paris and Tokyo from the MoMA and even send photos to Mom and Dad, too.<br />
Thirty-something years ago, this was stuff for sci-fi nerds.
NASA’s Glorious History of Training Astronauts | Wired Science | Wired.com
Space Shuttle Discovery – 360VR Images
Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization
David Byrne’s 1987 Predictions for the Computers of 2007: I don't think computers will have any important effect on the arts in 2007. When it comes to the arts they're just big or small adding machines. And if they can't "think," that's all they'll ever be. They may help creative people with their bookkeeping, but they won't help in the creative process.<br />
The video revolution, however, will have some real impact on the arts in the next 20 years. It already has. Because people's attention spans are getting shorter, more fiction and drama will be done by television, a perfect medium for them. But I don't think anything will be wiped out; books will always be there; everything will find its place.
The Secret History of Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong is perhaps the greatest outsider game of all time. It broke all the rules because its creator, the now-legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, didn't know them to begin with. It not only launched the career of gaming's most celebrated creative mind, it gave birth to the jump-and-run platform genre as we know it, and established Nintendo as perhaps the industry's longest standing superpower.
british wrestling posters – a set on Flickr
PAS House – A House made for Skating: Imagine a city of the future where skateboards are used as the primary form of transportation and recreation – in and out of your home. A utopia city for skateboarders would mean that a skateable path, like a ribbon connecting everything together, links each building in an unending ability to keep in motion on your board. The PAS House takes this concept and brings it to life through an architectural project mixing a modern single family home with a skateboard ramp structure – all from an environmentally-driven perspective.
The Humor Code: Deconstructing the Science of Funny | Underwire | Wired.com
Tweet to Metal « PRINTERESTING: Last week, to mark the 125th anniversary of the linotype machine, Portland’s Stumptown Printers (with the help of some friends at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry) celebrated with a twitter-based letterpress project.
6 Ways to Bring Civility Online | The Art of Manliness: 1. Remember that there are real people on the other side of the computer. 2. Never say something to someone online that you wouldn’t say to the person’s face. 3. Use your real name. 4. Sit on it. 5. Or don’t respond at all. 6. Say something positive.
Melvin, the blogging Rube Goldberg Machine
(Vimeo Direktmelvin, via notcot)
Melvin vom niederländischen Designstudio Hey Hey Hey ist eine Rube Goldberg Maschine, die ihre Zuschauer filmt und fotografiert und die Bilder und Videos twittert und auf Facebook postet. Hübsche Idee!
Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) can be described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg’s do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction – Melvin has an identity. Actually, the only purpose of this machine is promoting its own identity.
Melvin takes pictures and makes video’s of his audience which he instantly uploads to his website, facebook and twitter account. Besides that he makes his own merchandise. All of this within 4 minutes of craziness which you just have to witness yourself.
Google Sciencefair-RubeGoldberg-Commercial
(Youtube Direktscience, via Waxy)
Schönes RubeGoldberg-Commercial für die kommende Online-Wissenschaftsmesse von Google.
Google has partnered with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American to create a new kind of online science competition that is more global, open and inclusive than ever before. Students aged 13 – 18 from around the world are invited to enter and compete for awesome once-a-lifetime experiences, scholarships and real-life work opportunities.
Das Ding kommt übrigens von denselben Leuten, die auch OK GOs RubeGoldberg-Musikvideo zu „This Too Shall Pass“ gemacht haben: Syyn Labs’s League of Extraordinary Nerds.
“We’re a sensationalism service,” says Brent Bushnell.
Ask cofounder Adam Sadowsky and he says, “We’re a one-stop production company: We make physical art that moves people.”
“We want to be the ‘engineering is cool’ group,” Bushnell adds.
Another cofounder, Eric Gradman, sums it up this way: “We’re a glorified drinking club with an art problem.”
In the meanwhile: Google kann jetzt mit einer App für Android Sudoku lösen. Video dazu nach dem Klick.
Rube Goldberg Room
(Youtube Direktrube, via Boing Boings Submitterator)
Ein kleiner Teil des Rube Goldberg-Raums im St. Louis City Museum. Irgendwie so sieht es in meinem Kopf aus. Echt jetz!
This room was constructed with the humor of Rube Goldberg cartoons in mind at the St. Louis City Museum. Developed organically, the room started with one exercycle on the bench and the thought, “What can this become?” From there, visual and comedic mechanics were added day by day to create a space that with the push of a button, the room would erupt with motion and activity. A line shaft and belt system from the Industrial Revolution was used to transmit power and action over the viewers head, encompassing them with movement and the challenge of deciphering what powers what. An umbrella opens and closes with the aid of cables and manikin hands, a cup floats and falls with the power of pneumatic pistons, a 3ft. wheel of feet kicks up opposing balancing beams, a leg and foot continue to ‘kick the bucket’ and a fireplace bellows that spins the pinwheel.
OK GO – “This Too Shall Pass” Rube Goldberg Maschine Deluxe Version
(Youtube Direkt, via okgo)
Der neue Clip “This Too Shall Pass” der Viral-Combo OK GO feiert heute gestern seine Weltpremiere und protzt dieses Mal mit einer riesigen Rube Goldberg Maschine die in einem One-Take durchläuft. Und da RBM die nerdigste Sache der Welt sind, ist das hier quasi ein Pflichtpost.
The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.
Martin aka Mister Honk ist seines Zeichens Herzblut-Mediendesigner, Vollzeit-Nerd, leidenschaftlicher Biertrinker und für die nächsten Tage hier im NC Gastblogger.
RFID Rube Goldberg Machine
(Vimeo DirektRFID, via BoingBoing)
Hier die innovativste Rube Goldberg Maschine, die Ihr in einer Weile sehen werdet. Funtioniert komplett ohne Berührungen und mit RFID-Chips. Sweet! Snip von der Projekt-Site:
The film Nearness explores interacting without touching. With RFID it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the technology. Here we play with the problems of invisibility and the magic of being close.
Rube Goldberg Machine Is Made of 100,000 Toothpicks, Shaped Like San Francisco
Artist Scott Weaver spent 35 years working on this toothpick structure of San Francisco, which required 100,000 toothpicks and has a ball that rolls through the entire thing in Rube Goldberg fashion. But perhaps the best part of this is Weaver’s sentiment towards the project, when he mentions that he loves to “know that I’m building something that people will see later on that took a long time to build for no reason.”
