10 Brilliant Rube Goldberg Machines
I’ve linked to some of these before, but it’s nice to have 10 of them in one place.
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10 Brilliant Rube Goldberg Machines
I’ve linked to some of these before, but it’s nice to have 10 of them in one place.
How does the lego one know how to sort the different coloured balls?
I’d imagine that it’s pre-programmed to tap a ball at various intervals and the balls are pre-sorted but you see right from the beggining that they’re randomly picked up in a bucket.
What are the three differences between a Rube Goldberg machine and Washington? A Rube Golbberg machine achieves a desired termination in finite elapsed time for a known budget. The mechanisms are otherwise indistinguishable.
@Leader Bee, it’s probably an optical scanner of some sort. A soccer (foot)ball and a basketball should show some significant differences in how they look. You can see some sort of camera above the track where the sorting happens.
You can see another optical scanner with the truck following the black path — a detector on each side gives steering feedback.