Pulleys, robots, catapults, dominoes, ramps, weights, gears and even mousetraps all came into play as students from area schools worked together to build a giant Rube Goldberg style machine. Maker ...

Familiar to anyone who played The Incredible Machine, this pleasing puzzle game challenges you to cobble together Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. It's a blast. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

Rube Goldberg Workshop is now available on Quest, letting you make tons of different crazy—dare we say—Rube Goldbergian machines. Built on Quest’s Presence platform, users can choose to play either in ...

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What takes over 20 different steps in order to shine a shoe? Nothing, in a world other than the one created by the Rube Goldberg club. For the fourth year, several UA engineering students are working ...

Johns Hopkins freshman mechanical engineering students engaged in an annual rite of passage on the Homewood campus last week, as 23 student teams and their cleverly crafted contraptions took part in ...

The 15th annual Challenge Day on Thursday brought together 135 gifted fifth-graders from Dauphin County's 10 school districts. In teams of five, students built crazy contraptions to do simple tasks, ...

In line with the worldwide social media event called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, they accepted the challenge and made it more high tech. In this video, the technical staff of Digi-Key designed a ...