🚀🛠️ Behold, the #future of #computing is... a Victorian #steampunk fever dream with gears and levers! Because why not ditch electrons for a Rube Goldberg machine when Moore’s Law takes a nap? 🤖🔄 It's the pinnacle of #tech #nostalgia, where efficiency means cranking up the entropy and energy savings involve a calculator from 1822. 🍿🎩
https://tennysontbardwell.com/blog/2025/04/30/mechanical-computing/index.html #RubeGoldberg #VictorianInnovation #HackerNews #ngated

Hey beautiful people! Just posted my review of Crazy Machines 3, where I spent way too many hours trying to make basketballs land in hoops using dominoes, gears, and… stuffed bunnies? 🧩
It's physics puzzle-solving that'll make your brain hurt in the best possible way! Read my full breakdown of this Rube Goldberg simulator: https://2tonwaffle.com/crazy-machines-3-review-rube-goldberg-paradise-or-puzzle-purgatory/
#GameReview #IndieGames #PuzzleGames #RubeGoldberg #CrazyMachines #Gaming #Steam

Another day, another 🥪 of #tech #hysteria wrapped in a desperate attempt to make #Firefox relevant again. Instead of waiting for #WebUSB, let's just build an entire Rube Goldberg machine to reinvent the wheel! As if GitHub isn't already bursting with enough "ingenious" hacks nobody asked for. 🙄
https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb #RubeGoldberg #IngeniousHacks #HackerNews #ngated

This guy is amazing at Rube Goldberg building. Worth exploring some of his videos. Such creativity. Entertaining!!
#rubegoldberg
#video
https://youtu.be/bUU-S2JBRek

📟🤓 Intel's Pentium: breaking news from 1993—apparently, multiplying by three was such a Herculean task it required a Rube Goldberg machine of transistors. 🙄 Meanwhile, Ken Shirriffs continues his thrilling quest to make us all #nostalgia for obsolete circuitry. 🤔🔍
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html #IntelPentium #RubeGoldberg #ObsoleteTech #TransistorTales #HackerNews #ngated

The Incredible Machine is a groundbreaking puzzle game from 1993 that lets you build Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Released by Sierra On-Line, it offers creative freedom in solving tasks and received praise for its innovative gameplay. The music, composed by Christopher Stevens, perfectly fits the game's playful tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxenRZWWDQU

#TheIncredibleMachine #RetroGaming #PuzzleGames #ClassicGames #RubeGoldberg

Have a ball following Swiss Jolly Ball as it rolls up, down and all around on a rollicking tour of Switzerland … as if #RubeGoldberg were your guide.

"Kedging Cannon" by XKCD comic (mirror bot @xkcdbot ) - Long ago... something like this could plausibly have started the requirement for all kinds of #transportation operators to receive training first. But there is no enforceable requirement for inventors to look for a simpler method first, only ridicule for building a #RubeGoldberg Machine. Maybe there should be. 🤔 https://xkcd.com/3013/ #science #tech #oops #WTF

Well, yeah, the process is a little #RubeGoldberg -esque… but I’ve managed to connect (i.e. follow both ways) between #BlueSky and here.

Who's up for making a Rube Goldberg machine?
https://www.instructables.com/contest/sillysolutions24
#Instructables #InstructablesContests #RubeGoldberg

Newly Completed Overly-Complex Clock Synchronizes Multiple Mechanisms https://hackaday.com/2024/07/11/newly-completed-overly-complex-clock-synchronizes-multiple-mechanisms/ #rubegoldberg #clockhacks #complexity #marblerun #dominoes #lasercut

check this out y'all. it just keeps going and going and going! 😲

#RubeGoldberg #Physics #Play #Outside #Wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l5c0CquHDQ
Epic Swish Basketball Shot Using Rube Goldberg Machine by Caters Clips

(thanks @MikeMayak!)
#IAmDB

Today in Labor History July 4, 1883: Rube Goldberg, who worked hard to make simple things outrageously difficult, was born. He was a writer, engineer, sculptor and cartoonist. Hired as an engineer to design San Francisco’s sewers in 1904, he quit after six months to become a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. In his 72-year career, he produced over 50,000 drawings and comic strips. In 1922, he was offered $200,000 for his comics ($2.3 million in today’s dollars). And he won a Pulitzer for his political cartoons. However, his contraptions were meant to be a satire on the social and economic havoc wrought by rapid industrialization, and the fact that technology that was meant to simplify people’s lives could have the opposite effect.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rubegoldberg #cartoon #journalism #sanfrancisco #writer #author #technology @bookstadon

Now I'm wondering: is there a collection of contraptions and levels built for @principia to play with it around like in #TheIncredibleMachine? Sort of a #RubeGoldbergMachine, but with #DIY set to make more such levels, you know... :ablobcatwave:

Post inspired by https://mastodon.social/@256/112417780225247409 and reminiscing about mid-00s #RubeGoldberg type videogame that I can't remember the name of.

#sandbox #PhysicsSandbox #PhysicsSim #PhysicsSimulation #Principia #the_incredible_machine #the_incredible_machine_2 #LevelEditor

Anybody else obsessed with the xkcd rube goldberg machine from yesterday?

https://xkcd.com/2916/

#xkcd #RubeGoldberg

Yet another #xkcd Machine, this time featuring a familiar red button...

#RubeGoldberg #rube_goldberg #CredibleMachine #ThatWasEasy #EasyButton

The latest XKCD comic lets you build a Rube Goldberg machine in your browser.

https://xkcd.com/2916

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

#xkcd #machine #RubeGoldberg #RubeGoldbergMachine #TheIncredibleMachine

I'm a bit of a #HomeAutomation nut, and I have two cats whose #litterbox is a #LitterRobot made by #Whisker. The mobile app is supposed to notify me whenever the litter drawer gets full, but it's never worked. (Yes, I've already tried logging out/in, uninstalling/reinstalling, clearing cache, disabling battery optimization, etc.)

My main hub is a #Hubitat C-7, and until recently, there was an unofficial Litter Robot integration in #HubitatPackageManager that allowed me to circumvent the Whisker app notification issue. Then, Whisker changed their #API, which broke the Hubitat integration, and I was back to manually checking the Whisker app every day.

Turns out, there's a #HomeAssistant integration that supports the new API, so today, I implemented the most #RubeGoldberg workaround I've ever seen. I installed #Portainer on my #RaspberryPi, spun up HA in #Docker, installed #HACS, enabled the Hubitat #MakerAPI integration, connected it all up, and now my notifications are working again!

this is just freakin' wonderful...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2UHdMOsH82/

#joy #rubegoldberg