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The Complicated Way to Turn on a Flashlight
jangobongo writes "A machine built by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers employed an outer-space theme and used steps that incorporated a bouncing water balloon, a fireman action figure fleeing a fire and weights attached to a spinning bicycle wheel to win the 18th national Purdue Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The winning machine told the story of rocket being launched. As the rocket traveled into space, a meteor hit Earth and started a fire. While the mock fire was put out, the rocket turned on the flashlight to shine back down on Earth. A short video clip can be seen here. The contest was filmed by the Game Show Network to be featured on the network's show, 'Games Across America,' at some future date."
go to purdue. j00 sux0r!
Why need so many step? a child just need one step. :).
yeah, yeah ... that's why it is robot.
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I can reboot into Windows XP and return here, but what would be the fun in that?
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No mplayer included. tut tut :)
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