# most awesome rube goldberg machine ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062 "2010-02-23T01:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/1 "2010-02-23T01:39:19Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vrCb_fNmSTA/maxresdefault.jpg "Creme That Egg! | How To Squish A Creme Egg! | Joseph's Machines") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrCb_fNmSTA) Creme That Egg! Most awesome rube goldberg machine ever! And it looks like they just made it up in their garage with toilet paper rolls and things from around the house. Amazing! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/2 "2010-02-23T01:44:14Z")
Cute. I know I’ve seen more complex ones, but that one has a great theme. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/3 "2010-02-23T02:57:25Z")
I’ll see your egg and raise you one [Honda Accord commercial.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo) There are no special effects, no CGI, no tricks. It is the real deal. [Wikipedia has a page about this commercial.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(advertisement)) ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/4 "2010-02-23T03:12:07Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > I’ll see your egg and raise you one [Honda Accord commercial.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo) And I will raise you one that [spans the entire history of the universe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf07e5h8474). ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/5 "2010-02-23T03:22:45Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > I’ll see your egg and raise you one [Honda Accord commercial.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo) > > There are no special effects, no CGI, no tricks. It is the real deal. [Wikipedia has a page about this commercial.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(advertisement)) I thing the thing that impressed me about the original one is that it was done by amateurs in a garage, not professionals on a sound stage. It’s incredible hard to get all of the details right. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/6 "2010-02-23T03:33:43Z")
What’s going on at 1:50 in the OP’s video? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/7 "2010-02-23T03:58:05Z")
Looks like a piece of plastic pinned to the wall warped in such a way that there’s a channel for balls to roll down. The top left corner is the furthest out while the bottom right is against the wall. Not sure that I’m explaining this clearly. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/8 "2010-02-23T06:26:54Z")
I’m willing to see that topped. It’s probably not the best ever, but pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/9 "2010-02-23T09:29:42Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > I’ll see your egg and raise you one [Honda Accord commercial.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo) > > There are no special effects, no CGI, no tricks. It is the real deal. [Wikipedia has a page about this commercial.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(advertisement)) Hmm… 606 takes! Many spliced together and “additional [post-production] work included re-centering the frame to stay closer to the action, **removal of wires** , highlighting a spray of water, and adjusting the speed of some sections for dramatic purposes” sounds like there was some CGI and a few tricks. Still very elegant. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/10 "2010-02-23T19:20:26Z")
I liked the part with the hammers. And **PlainJain** , it’s a car commercial, of course there’s going to be some fine print. 😉 \*The preceding commercial may have contained recentering the fram to stay cloer to the action, removal of wires, highlighting a spray of water and adjusting the speed for dramatic purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/11 "2010-02-23T19:29:09Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Looks like a piece of plastic pinned to the wall warped in such a way that there’s a channel for balls to roll down. The top left corner is the furthest out while the bottom right is against the wall. > > Not sure that I’m explaining this clearly. Anyone else? That’s what it looks like to me. To expound, it’s pushing the “track” that the ball rolls on out to it’s left/right edge (like an axle), rather than it’s top/bottom - which is why it’s spinning but not rolling to coincide with that. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/12 "2010-02-23T19:39:28Z")
Their channel has another awesome machine: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMLkFb6y4A8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMLkFb6y4A8) I was expecting the OP’s video to be a commercial - with all the product placement 🙂 Whatever it is, it was well done. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/13 "2010-02-23T20:16:39Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Hmm… 606 takes! Many spliced together and “additional [post-production] work included re-centering the frame to stay closer to the action, **removal of wires** , highlighting a spray of water, and adjusting the speed of some sections for dramatic purposes” sounds like there was some CGI and a few tricks. Still very elegant. > [@Wikipedia](#): > > Filming itself consisted of two continuous sixty-second dolly shots taken from a technocrane, which were to be stitched together in post-production. Sure, 606 takes because it didn’t go right so many times. Still, what you see was done in two continuous shots. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/14 "2010-02-24T13:13:26Z")
That was cool! Although, it pains me to see a wasted Cadbury creme egg. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/15 "2010-02-24T14:04:24Z")
I want a Cadbury egg now. I love rube goldberg stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/16 "2010-02-24T15:28:05Z")
That was pretty cool. I actually clapped at the end. Which made my roommate give me a funny look. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-awesome-rube-goldberg-machine-ever/530062/17 "2010-02-24T21:20:24Z")
Here is an article about the recent [regional contest](http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102210329), and qualifier for the national Rube Goldberg contest that takes place every year at Purdue University. Lots of “Rubey” goodness on hand. These are all college teams, typically engineering clubs, and they also have a division for high school level competitors.