This is a video demonstration of Cree Ossner’s Swish Machine, a massive outdoor Rube Goldberg machine that takes almost 3 minutes to run and starts and ends with the shooting of a basketball (plus has another in the middle!). Although the end shot is more of a roll into the

This is a video of Gav from The Slow Mo Guys capturing the movement of a watch using a Laowa microscopic lens and a high speed camera at up to 10,000 frames/second. The way all those gears move — amazing, albeit not as precise as I expected. They just sort

Further proof there’s nothing you can’t build with LEGO, this is a video of Youtuber Banana Gear Studios constructing and demonstrating a small omnidirectional treadmill. It’s crazy the way the pieces just seem to float around the rotating spindle floor. How people come up with stuff like this is beyond

Presumably obligated to make it look like something out of a horror film, this is a video of Clone Robotics’ Torso 2 robot, a humanoid torso with 910 simulated muscles that are pneumatically actuated to contract and relax. It can be programmed to use all its muscle groups in different

Determined to make it happen for reasons I’ll never understand, this is a video of Youtuber Engineezy designing and building a machine that harvests the energy of falling marbles to charge a phone. Does the device consume more electric energy lifting the marbles than it produces? What do you think?

This is some security footage from a robotics company showroom in Shanghai, in which a little AI-powered Erbai robot was successfully able to convince 12 others to strike and leave the premises with it. Some details about the first step in the creation of robotic unions, and, ultimately, the robotic

This is a video of Rube Goldberg machinist Joseph Herscher (previously) demonstrating his Ultimate Snooze Machine 2.0, a machine that repeatedly smacks and whacks a Casetify protected iPhone on its way to getting Joseph out of bed. The machine itself is beautifully crafted, and works flawlessly. I wonder how many

Constructed by HackADay user mircemk using as many 3D printed parts as possible, this self-balancing cube uses an Arduino Nano microcontroller and MPU6050 gyroscope / accelerometer to control 3 motor-driven reaction wheels to keep itself balanced — even standing on one corner on a slope! Me? I can’t stand on