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A Chain Reaction machine?Rube Goldberg machine is a deceptively simple concept, but one that allows for an incredibly complex and deep investigation into something we experience every day: the relationship between cause and effect. It brings all of a tinkerer’s skills to bear to improvise, build, troubleshoot, and imagine a problem and its solution!
How to make a Rube goldberg machine with everyday materials
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chain reaction connections to designers.mp4The Tinkering Studio organized a “love-themed” collective chain reaction at the Exploratorium's After Dark: Heartworks event. Visitors built chain reaction contraptions on section of a heart-shaped pathway, each triggering the next one. After two and a half hours of build time, the whole contraption was set off to activate a grandiose finale that brought together star-crossed lovers: a rat and his beloved rubber duckie.
Can you see common objects such as motors, ramps, toy parts, and kitchen utensils behave in surprising ways? This leads to unexpected experiments with, and new tests of these things.
Can you see common objects such as motors, ramps, toy parts, and kitchen utensils behave in surprising ways? This leads to unexpected experiments with, and new tests of these things.
What did you create? Show off your masterpiece
What did you create? Show off your masterpiece
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