Preserved Topic: November sig contest: Rube Goldberg Machines (Page 1 of 2)

Rube Goldberg machines! That's a machine that does a lot of unnecessary stuff to achieve a simple or pointless goal. Some examples of Rube Goldberg's work can be found at http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/gallery.htm .

The idea is to make a complicated "machine" that does something, for instance, writing your name, though that needn't be its goal. This provides lots of possibilities for both animated gifs and still images (note that none of rube goldberg's work actually involved animation).

The machine can be entirely mechanical (think of the game Mouse Trap) or electronic, or it can involve animals/creatures, strange objects, etc. Be creative and funny!

Things like perpetual motion machines or other unnecessarily complicated devices are also welcome.

You can certainly make these very cool by animating them, but as I said, a still picture can be just as fun to look through and try to figure out how it works. Have fun!

anyone played "The Incredible Machine" series?

Like Heath Robinson's machines?:
http://www.a.ghinn.btinternet.co.uk/heath.htm

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oh, i think mahjqa will rock again

Emporer: looks like you've got the right idea. His machines look slightly different from rube goldberg's, but it's very similar.

OK, I say we just slip something in mahjqa's drink, tie him up, and throw him in the utility closet until next month. Who's with me?

Oh, and great topic... time to put the thinking cap on.

Don`t be skeered


~whispers to Suho * yea, but I think we should hit with a big obsidian club, too. Just to be sure*~

Slime, would I have to label what each thing did?

Labels are not required.

[something actually pops into his head .. caution working over here on his "machine"]

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[This message has been edited by RammStein (edited 11-02-2002).]

ummmm .. I just realized .. what I just did is a machine but isn't what you would call a Rube Goldberg machine


I'll post my entre anyway .. though I'm going to work on making it animated



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[This message has been edited by RammStein (edited 11-03-2002).]

you're right, rammstein, but it's still some nice work you got here

Hahahahah!

I just found my book entitled: "The Way Things Work."




[This message has been edited by Lucid Iguana (edited 11-03-2002).]

ooohhhhhhhh..... time to get my pears to work..... heh.

                                     

Lucid: I remember that book! That was great!

OK, enough useless chatter...

*heads off to the drawing board*

Rammstein, you can still make it work. Have the robot arm fall off, hit a lever, that lifts the bird cage, etc...

If you're stuck for ideas, I suggest going here: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi

It has product design things... all random and silly of course.
It's fun to put your name into it and find out what you do.

fraxyl is like a normal key-ring, but it swears.

fraxyl: Nice find - possibly start a new thread on this in the main forum to stop this thread spinning out of control?

While I am here (the second is more like it):

The Emperor is a DVD player! It squeaks!
Emperor is a toilet seat that tracks infra-red and is heavier than it looks.

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Just so we don't veer too far off track here, I'm going to start a thread on this in the main forum, with credits to fraxyl, of course.

[Edit: and here it is.]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 11-07-2002).]

Gee do you think this sig contest is too hard?

It's either too hard or it's taking everybody too long....



Maskkkk

- Face the Present

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 11-07-2002).]

Mmm. I'm wondering that also.

If people are finding this too difficult, we can reduce the topic to, say, "perpetual motion machines" or something like that.

I think you're better off narrowing it down to that, Slime.

"Perpetual motion machines" it is. =)

As mahjqa is at the moment sitting on his couch, blindfolded, and bound with the cables of his computer and other electrical appliances, he will not be able to enter this months competition. Sadly.

Furthermore, we, the BotRGG (Band of the Renegade Garden Gnomes) demand six packages of icecream, four lollipops and a poster of Snow White for his release.

Mahjqa... really, I dont think you should have tryed your Mind Plug with out somemore testing on animals.

I hope you recover quick!

Muhwahwahwa! I knew those silly gnomes would carry out my plan to perfection!

The reason why I have not entered a sig yet this month is because I just haven't had the time to work on one. I've been thinking about it, but I've just been too busy to take action. Personally, I don't think Rube Goldberg machines is too difficult a topic (or that perpetual motion machines will be any easier), but that's up to Slime. Either way, I'm going to give this contest a shot in the second half of the month. I'll probably end up pulling a grumble and getting it in at the last minute (I've noticed that last-minute sigs have won the past two contests... hmm).

Well now that its labeled 'Perpetual Motion Devices', I therefor recycle this sig .



[This message has been edited by InSiDeR (edited 11-10-2002).]

Yup, I remember that one...

I know I don't have a sig yet... but apparently neither does anyone else. My opinion: Rube Goldberg Machines was a better subject. Personally, I'm having a much harder time trying to think of a perpetual motion machine...

Insider, that doesn't even theoretically work....

I have a quick question for Slime - can we still do a Rube Goldberg Machine or are we limited only to perpetual motion machines?

I've started on a RG machine already and I'm not clear on whether it's allowed anymore. Thanks in advance

By all means, if you want to do a rube goldberg machine (if you already started on one or you just think it'll be easier), you're still free to do so.

So, uh, raise your hand if you have plans for entering a sig.

I guess this topic was a little too difficult =)

If you have suggestions on how to redeem the contest for this month, let me know.

How about we rename the theme to "CONTRAPTIONS"

=)

If I'm the only person who submits, do I win?

its the time of year for me... i want to enter though... I have ideas.... woo!

                                     

Don't get your hopes up Lucid. Remember Ramm entered before you. So no you don't 'automatically' win.

I would like to enter but I am having difficulty expressing/illustrating my idea in a way that makes sense to the viewer.

Yup, and Amerasu's also working on something... and we still have almost two weeks left. Who knows? Maybe if I get some time I'll put something together... I have been thinking about it.

about 19post/sig... is this a post contest or what !!?

well .. I would try to do something more with my entry but I'm also having trouble with the concept