Helpful Website Links and Videos
Rube Goldberg Machines:
Watch Isaac Newton vs. Rube Goldberg https://vimeo.com/54913096 or Nat Geo’s giant 4 ton machine http://www.wimp.com/videos/epicgiant/ (a massive machine with 38 triggers and 71 moving pieces, including a few staff members themselves and a car)
Get students’ creative juices flowing by having them watch clips from the following and seeing how and what others used to make their Rube Goldberg Inspired Machines:
- Rube Goldberg TV https://www.youtube.com/user/RubeGoldbergTV
- Sesame Street: Rube Goldberg Machines (which also does an excellent job of reinforcing concepts about simple machines and how they can all work together.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMpmit5YMcg
- 75 Rube Goldberg Ideas & Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzUx2EFk8s [This video is split up into 3 sets of 25 ideas by 3 different youtubers. These short screen linked clips can help you with school projects or making your own chain reaction. This video is intended to help individuals obtain ideas and/or inspiration for building their own Rube Goldberg Machine. It is not meant to look like one actual machine. It is simply screenlinked to give more flow and continuity to the video.]
- Find videos and images at http://rubegoldberg.com/ , such as A-Trak & Tommy Trash - Tuna Melt [also at https://vimeo.com/62846755] and Tinkering with Monks [Tinkering with monks: Chain Reaction Contraption from The Tinkering Studio on Vimeo.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0B1hgP1tlE Pythagoras Switch - Japanese Rube Goldberg machine
An in-depth and fantastic resource is: How To Design and Make Automata by Robert Addams http://www.smithstudents.com/New_Archive_MAKE_files/How_to_make_automata.pdf
It is highly recommended you go to http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/2014/08/20/automata-examples to see further examples of automata.
Real World Artist: Peter Markey is an artist who often makes whimsical automata out of wood, utilizing cams and cam followers as his main source of movement. www.focsle.org.uk/first/markey & www.cabaret.co.uk/artists/markey/htm
The Tinkering Studio
Dogs Chasing their Tails: http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/2014/08/20/automata-examples
Modern automatons? Enhance the discussion using a video such as: Magic Robot - The Illusion of the Thinking Machine from Marco Tempest https://vimeo.com/87599583 Marco Tempest invites you to meet EDI, a deceptively charming robot who wants nothing more than to be your friend while we ponder the challenges and ramifications of creating an intelligent machine.
Robots are bringing tech and fashion together! Watch the news report here: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3678082248001/robots-create-fashionable-dresses/#sp=show-clips
Einstein Robot - UCSD Machine Perception Laboratory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpWCu1k0ZI
There’s a very helpful and informative video that takes you step by step through the throwie construction process here: http://makezine.com/projects/extreme-led-throwies/
Small Scale Passive-Dynamic Walker
Watch it walk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwrrzOBtpTc Instructions & images via: http://nomadpress.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/NP_ActivityPrintOut_Mini-Walker-Robotics.pdf