Rube Goldberg-san
“Pitagora suicchi” = “Pythagoras Switch.” Apparently this is a children’s TV show in Japan.
My brothers and I used to make some complicated dominoes/playing cards/lego contraptions, but these thing blow me away! So amazing! The inherent creativity in figuring out and then engineering these flips and flops and rolls and turns is just brilliant!
(via BoingBoing)
July 30th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
This is excellent! It reminds me of this great after-school program with an office in Cambridge between where Teddy and I live:
http://www.build-it-yourself.com/index.html
Some of their more complex examples can be found here:
http://18.85.45.97/search.asp?catg=3&subcatg=3
The video files I found appear to require a Windows-only browser plug-in. Totally old skool, dude!