Myself and about 15 of my friends recently entered one of these contraptions into the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Purdue University hosts the national contest every year where winners of several different regional events compete to have the best working, most complicated Rube Goldberg machine. This year the task was to remove two old batteries from a flashlight, replace them with new batteries, and turn the flashlight on. Former tasks have been casting a ballot, making a cup of coffee, sharpening a pencil, and many more. There is a minimum of 20 steps to complete the task and the machine has to fit in a 6 ft. cube (I belive). Machines also usually have a theme which their machine is based on. Our particular machine had a theme of Las Vegas with all the various steps involving differet Las Vegas casinos, with the Luxor being our flashlight (a light at the top of the pyramid). The winning machine this year at the Purdue regional was a very impressive work of engineering. Of course, the winners had put 3600 man hours into their machine. I believe their theme was space.
If you have a chance to participate in the Rube Goldberg contest, I would recommend taking it, because it is a really good experience.
Yes SharePro is not to be trusted. That mp3 search engine on earthreactor.com's first page was written completely by my friend and myself. We were having financial problems and posted the fact on our website, which is when SharePro offered to help out. We were happy to have a new host at no cost and we hadn't heard anything of SharePro at that point. After a while we raised enough money to move onto our own server again, but when we did that, SharePro decided to keep the search engine online and then decided to change the graphics to his own. You will however notice that his mp3 database is quite out of date due to the fact that he did not get a copy of our spider. The second I saw that SharePro had anything to do with this, I figured it was a big lie.
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Myself and about 15 of my friends recently entered one of these contraptions into the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Purdue University hosts the national contest every year where winners of several different regional events compete to have the best working, most complicated Rube Goldberg machine. This year the task was to remove two old batteries from a flashlight, replace them with new batteries, and turn the flashlight on. Former tasks have been casting a ballot, making a cup of coffee, sharpening a pencil, and many more. There is a minimum of 20 steps to complete the task and the machine has to fit in a 6 ft. cube (I belive). Machines also usually have a theme which their machine is based on. Our particular machine had a theme of Las Vegas with all the various steps involving differet Las Vegas casinos, with the Luxor being our flashlight (a light at the top of the pyramid). The winning machine this year at the Purdue regional was a very impressive work of engineering. Of course, the winners had put 3600 man hours into their machine. I believe their theme was space.
If you have a chance to participate in the Rube Goldberg contest, I would recommend taking it, because it is a really good experience.
Yes SharePro is not to be trusted. That mp3 search engine on earthreactor.com's first page was written completely by my friend and myself. We were having financial problems and posted the fact on our website, which is when SharePro offered to help out. We were happy to have a new host at no cost and we hadn't heard anything of SharePro at that point. After a while we raised enough money to move onto our own server again, but when we did that, SharePro decided to keep the search engine online and then decided to change the graphics to his own. You will however notice that his mp3 database is quite out of date due to the fact that he did not get a copy of our spider. The second I saw that SharePro had anything to do with this, I figured it was a big lie.