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=Your Rube Goldberg Project =

Today you will enter into the world of design, art and science to create a Rube Goldberg Machine. Now, you may ask, who or what is a Rube Goldberg Machine? Click on the video for a clue media type="custom" key="24682664" align="center"

The machine you just saw was designed and created by engineers for a Honda commercial. But the design of the machine can be described as a Rube Goldberg machine.

A Rube Goldberg machine, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone [|machine] that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a [|chain reaction]. The expression is named after [|American] [|cartoonist] and inventor [|Rube Goldberg] (1883–1970). []

Follow the link below to learn more about how Rube Goldberg contributed to art, science and politics:

Who is Rube Goldberg?

Here are some little known facts about the commercial.
 * 1) There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film.
 * 2) Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it.
 * 3) The film took 606 takes.
 * 4) On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again.
 * 5) The crew spent weeks shooting night and day.
 * 6) The film cost six million dollars and took three months to complete including a full engineering of the sequence.
 * 7) Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and complete Honda Accord) are parts from those two cars.

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