The Breakfast Machine at Platform 21 [video]
Photo via platform21.nl
Photo via Yuri Suzuki on Flickr
Under the direction of Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki and artist Masa Kimura, visitors built "The Breakfast Machine," a Rube Goldberg-ish device that made an omelet, orange juice, coffee, and toast with jam. The project was part of Dutch Design Double, and its construction was documented over at [...]
The Top Ten Food-Based Rube Goldberg Machines [videos]
Still from Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
Rube Goldberg machines — a deliberately complex machine designed to perform a simple task — seem to be all over the internet. Perhaps inspired by the epic example set by Pee-wee Herman's Breakfast Machine in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (see below), many of these contraptions either use food as the meager excuse [...]
