Purdue Students Win Rube Goldberg Contest

Dekortage writes "How long does it take to make a burger? Students from Purdue University's Society of Professional Engineers won the 2008 Rube Goldberg contest with a device that requires 156 steps to assemble a burger. According to the team captain, 'We put 4,000 to 5,000 man-hours into this machine since September, and all the hard work has been well worth it.' That's a long time to wait for dinner." Here's a video of the winning entry in operation.

Comments

The best part about Purdue University's machine

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't even make a burger, it just shoots you.

Re:Where's the Beef?

[Tetsujin]

Well, if you followed the link and it was a guy singing about how he's never gonna give you up or let you go, then you followed the wrong link.

Yummy!

[Forthan Red]

I like my hamburgers without the pulp.

Burger with net negative calorie count

[davidwr]

Imagine if a human did all of those steps. He would burn more calories than he consumed.

Burgers as health food? Who knew.

Re:Burger with net negative calorie count

[Applekid]

I'd mod you up, but the damn marble I let go to drop into the basket to pull the string through the pully to release the pin to pop the spring to strike the match against the abrasive pad to burn the rope that releases the weight to hit the macro key on my keyboard that selects the dropdown item, scrolls to the bottom, and hits the "Moderate Posts" button came off its track.

Sorry about that.

Re:Burger with net negative calorie count

[bark76]

It's nice to see someone admit that they don't have the marbles to mod a post up.

Re:Rube Goldberg

[reverseengineer]

The submitter is still waiting for the cat to frighten the pigeon into laying the egg that will roll down the chute to land on the lever that opens the cage so the trained monkey can run over and press the letter "D" on the keyboard.

Re:Orange juice burger??

[mattOzan]

The winning entry according to the article was the burger maker. But the video linked in the summary is a machine making orange juice.

That's the burger of the future, man! We're going to be drinking tacos, steaks, souffles, you-name-it!

In tribute to Rube Goldberg

[MobyDisk]

In tribute to Rube Goldberg, the web site is done in Flash instead of HTML, and all the text is really bitmaps.

Re:Obligatory Samuel L. Jackson Quote

[SCHecklerX]

Mmmmmmm Mmmmmmm!

You ever have a big kahuna burger?

Re:nice

[VoltCurve]

agreed. People who have fun with engineering projects, building something as complex as possible just because they can. It's disgusting. and Video games? fuck video games. people who have fun have too much time on their hands. How DARE they enjoy their time as they see fit?

Re:I guess correctly

[Minwee]

You're right. Lennon was from the UK.

Do you have any other insight into the history of the Beatles you would like to share with us?

Re:nice

[Missing_dc]

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