Purdue Students Win Rube Goldberg Contest 105
Dekortage writes "How long does it take to make a burger? Students from Purdue University's Society of Professional Engineers won the 2008 Rube Goldberg contest with a device that requires 156 steps to assemble a burger. According to the team captain, 'We put 4,000 to 5,000 man-hours into this machine since September, and all the hard work has been well worth it.' That's a long time to wait for dinner." Here's a video of the winning entry in operation.
Rube Goldberg (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.rubegoldberg.com/ [rubegoldberg.com]
Re:Rube Goldberg (Score:5, Funny)
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The best part about Purdue University's machine (Score:5, Funny)
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Wrong Video? (Score:3, Informative)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q4fTPwXy4U [youtube.com]
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nice (Score:2)
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What? You think they should be doing something else in engineering school like STUDY?
That's why US companies want to hire from India and China. They actually TEACH in school.
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There is no better application in school than doing a project similar to this. Robot building projects and the like were the bes
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Easy to say that when you're not responsible for actually delivering those engineers that can build something. If you were, you would have already spent enough time trying and failing in the local market and you would know why it's necessary to go elsewhere. People who need to retreat to the meaningless an
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I mean, how judgmental do you have to be to say "You must be a sucky engineer because you built a Robe Goldberg mach
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Bad camerawork (Score:3, Insightful)
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU [youtube.com]
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the the machine itself is designed to be cinematic. The Purdue competition they have a cube to work within and the camera people are not artists or professionals...
would you like fries with that? (Score:1)
Where's the Beef? (Score:4, Informative)
I watched the full video, and I didn't see any hamburgers get made. Did I miss something?
Re:Where's the Beef? (Score:5, Funny)
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Oooohhh... I didn't realise there were Stock, Aitken and Waterman fans out here.
Re:Where's the Beef? (Score:4, Informative)
Orange juice burger?? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Orange juice burger?? (Score:5, Informative)
The video to the burger maker is here: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/rube/rube.index.html [purdue.edu]
Enjoy
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What's so hard about this? Download the video, play it when you have enough downloaded. Why does everyone try to "buffer" or measure speed throughput or something.
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Wrong video? (Score:2)
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Yummy! (Score:2, Funny)
Geez (Score:1, Redundant)
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Burger with net negative calorie count (Score:5, Funny)
Burgers as health food? Who knew.
Re:Burger with net negative calorie count (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry about that.
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You're right. Lennon was from the UK.
Do you have any other insight into the history of the Beatles you would like to share with us?
I have a better idea (Score:2)
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In other news... (Score:1, Troll)
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-Steps 1->250: remove skin
-Steps 251->278: drain blood
-Steps 279->1423: separate various tissues from the bones
-Step 1424: dump infected tissues.
-Steps 1425->2897: put back everything
-Steps 2898->3527: try to revive it
-Step 3528: incinerate the evidences
Don't be fooled! (Score:1)
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You ever have a big kahuna burger?
Title in 156 easy steps?? (Score:3, Interesting)
Truly team effort in creating time wasting fun.
Where is MicroSoft's entry? (Score:3, Informative)
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Firstly it's incorrect. Some things are easier in Windows, some in Linux, some in HP-UX. Writing this post is just preposterous, even by
Secondly, it's not in the least informative. Which things? Where are the links?
WTF, guys?
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In tribute to Rube Goldberg (Score:5, Funny)
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whay is "fast food" still so labor-intensive? (Score:2)
A couple years back I saw self-serve terminals at a MacDonalds. But it was a GUI disaster and complicated to use. It had lots of subscreens for
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Stan : I want a burger and some fries.
Gooback : Chigen Sahnwish ?
I for one welcome our goo covered fast food order taking overlords.
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We havent really progressed that much past the automats (cafeteria vending slots) of the 1930s
The technology behind the counter has progressed a lot though. McDonald's doesn't flip burgers anymore, they use computer controlled clamshells that cook both sides at once, you can cook up to 96 (1.6oz) patties in 42 seconds, 24 quarter pound patties in 106 seconds, toasters that toast multiple buns of multiple sizes perfectly in 8 seconds, heated cabinets that allow longer holding times at consistent and safe temperatures. Fryers that maintain temperature better than ever before, which makes everything
In related news: after a long search, (Score:1)
Here's a video? (Score:2)
Duh. Bye bye video.
If You Like This Kind of Stuff (Score:2)
BOILER UP!!!! (Score:1)
What about the cow? (Score:2)
Contest is rigged (Score:2)
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First Post (Score:1)
Nice zoom (Score:1)
Sketches (Score:2)
And may I recommend a set of original sketches by Rube Goldberg: http://www.rubegoldberg.com/ [rubegoldberg.com]