Video Round-Up: January 14, 2016

"THE CRAZIEST SODA MACHINE EVER" by berlagawesome

Too long have brands hogged the spotlight of Rube Goldberg machines. Hot gluing a bunch of stuff together in your garage is what they ought to be about.

The 22x22x22 Rubik's Cube Is Back, And Fully Functional - When we last saw this beast, it had just exploded. Now it's working, and the design behind it is pretty brilliant.

3m reclaim tunnel demonstration - The Arch-Lock construction system works similarly to LEGO with its interlocking bricks that can be assembled without additional supports. A video by Lock Block Ltd., the company behind Arch-Lock, shows their bricks in use with a Zipper truck system to quickly create a tunnel.

Blind Man Tries to Guess the Colors of Flavored Jelly Beans - Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, tries his best to guess the flavors and colors of seven different Jelly Belly jelly beans, like coconut, root beer, blueberry, and black licorice.

Video: The Nat Geo Contraption

"The Nat Geo Contraption" by NatGeo TVUK

Rube Goldberg machines are always good for a viral video. To promote their new ‘smart and entertaining’ content, the British National Geographic Channel built a monstrous chain reaction Rube Goldberg machine with 38 triggers and 71 moving pieces. 

"To celebrate our upcoming lineup of smart and entertaining shows, we found inspiration in American cartoonist Rube Goldberg's famous chain reactions. So we decided to create our own National Geographic version, combining 9 globes, 3 tyres, 1 Volkswagen Beetle, bowling pins, and a variety of everyday objects into a 4-ton scientific contraption with 38 triggers and 71 moving pieces! Watch what happens after "Street Genius" host Tim Shaw sets everything in motion."

Video: Rube Goldberg Monster Trap

"Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap" by LittlePythagoras

Audri would like to say thank you for the encouraging comments. He is 7 years old and he can read so please keep it positive. He wants to be a theoretical physicist when he grows up and has big plans to study robotics at MIT. He was especially inspired to make this video after seeing OK GO's This Too Shall Pass.

Video: Isaac Newton vs Rube Goldberg

Isaac Newton vs Rube Goldberg from 2D House

Video: "Goldberg" Digital Graffiti

"Goldberg" Digital Graffiti 2012 from Josh Van Praag

Josh Van Praag was commissioned by Alys Beach to tailor fit an animation to a local house for their annual Digital Graffiti event.

The ball goes up the conveyor belt, then rolls down a spiral ramp. As it rolls down that ramp, it triggers 3 sprockets.The first sprocket flips a series of panels to reveal grass, the second sprocket turns on sprinklers to water the grass, and the third sprocket unfolds a tube with these windmill devices over the middle roof of the house.

The water from the sprinklers fills the grass space and eventually overflows into the tube at the top. The water then turns these windmills that blow away the lower-left portion of the house, to reveal the Alys Beach logo. A single long shingle then blows away on the left roof above the logo. Little beach balls then spill out of this crack and rain down over the logo area like confetti for a big ta-dah moment. (I'm mostly a commercial artist, the logo reveal at the end comes naturally to me)

Video: Traveling Rube Goldberg Machine

Melvin The Traveling Mini Machine is a mini Rube Goldberg-style machine mounted in two suitcases for easy traveling that takes 38 steps to put a stamp on a postcard. It was created by HeyHeyHey, a Dutch design studio. See further details on all 38 steps here.

Source: Core77 

Video: Rube Goldberg Machine Record

The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own Guinness world record for the world's largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 300-step behemoth that flawlessly accomplished the simple task of blowing up and popping a balloon. The machine debuted at the 25th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University. The team’s entry in last year’s contest, a 244 step machine, was the previous world record holder.

The team spent more than 5,000 hours constructing the machine that accomplished every task ever assigned in the competition's 25-year history, including peeling an apple, juicing an orange, toasting bread, making a hamburger, changing a light bulb, loading a CD and sharpening a pencil.

Video: The Page Turner

The Page Turner is the latest Rube Goldberg machine from Brooklyn-based kinetic artist Joseph Herscher who builds elaborate machines that use complex chain reactions to complete mundane tasks. Herscher’s signature is to incorporate small loops into his machine where one of the device's steps in repeated.  For instance, here, the final state of step 25 is used again in step 30. You can see more videos of his ingenious work on his personal website.

Video: Photography Rube Goldberg Machine

"This is our Photography-themed Rube Goldberg Machine. We hope you all enjoy the clip! Watch our video explaining some of the process of getting this video done."

Via: The Procrastinator's Inbox

Lego Creations: Great Ball Contraption

This is the The Great Ball Contraption (GBC), a Rube-Goldberg style contraption built entirely out of Legos and consisting of a record breaking 93 modules. This video was shot at the February 2011 LEGO World competition in Copenhagen, where it took home the prize.

In the video, one of the builders intervenes a few times, but only for the sake of shortening the video.