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« on: April 30, 2020, 13:35:47 »
https://youtu.be/nORRgU8sGdE
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« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2020, 13:49:19 »
Truly awesome. And then there was more ...
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« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2020, 14:07:29 »
...and the pepper as well, please: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwaH-qT4Rm0
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2020, 21:15:58 »
There's some brilliant ingenuity in a lot of the Rube Goldberg machine videos on YouTube. A personal favourite of mine is this one from the band OK Go. Decent song too.

https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w
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They must take hours to set up
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« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2020, 10:57:09 »
Quote from: bignosemac on April 30, 2020, 21:15:58
There's some brilliant ingenuity in a lot of the Rube Goldberg machine videos on YouTube. A personal favourite of mine is this one from the band OK Go. Decent song too.

https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w

Ha Ha. Grin That made me think of Wilf Lunn in Vision On, although I don't think any of his inventions were as grand as that. Also There is a Heath Robinson museum in Pinner that I walked past a few years ago without knowing of its existence and I've been meaning to take a visit ever since.
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