Pitagora suiichi
Engadget reader BG suggested we have a Rube Goldberg machine contest on Engadget in the near future — not a bad idea! Remember how insanely amazing Rube Goldberg machines were to a childhood imagination? (Ever try making them with stuff around the house when you were a kid? I did, but we never had anything good enough for much more than a one or two stage machine.) Well, as proven by the mack daddy of all of them, Honda’s Cog video, Rube Goldberg machines are still freaking awesome, and the vids on YouTube of Japanese pitagora suiichi (Pythagorean machine) are every bit as mesmerising as you’d imagine they would be were you five years old again. Just beware, the pitagora suiichi have a chirpy little jingle that plays about forty times and is rather liable to get stuck in your head for days.
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if you sing it one more time, i might kill you. no… i will kill you.
i like those machines…i’d see them in bugs bunny cartoons. yeah, a 23.5 year old college senior watching cartoons…i know feel free to laugh
p.s. i can sing it ryan, she’ll never find me, nyaha (insert evil thunderclap)
Miss Veronica sent me this way. Turns out we both blogged about the same thing within a day of each other. Ah, Internets–bringing people together so we can all enjoy that one video of the monkey drinking his own pee. Well, and more cerebral stuff like Rube Goldberg devices.
The hypnotic power of the ditty in this video is almost undeniable. After watching it, I had the strangest urge to kill. Not sure what that’s about.
Maybe someone will remix it with a different soundtrack. Or perhaps Brokeback Suiichi or something. “Why can’t I quit you… in a needlessly complex yet utterly fascinating way… ?”
Yes, very odd how similar our posts were! Let the Rube Goldberg machine remixes begin. I’m personally waiting for a reciprocal multistage machine that restarts itself when its finished, perhaps with a power assist.
Then again, it would be nice if someone could design it without a power assist, for then they would have broken the first and second laws of thermodynamics (conservation of energy and entropy, of course). In the name of pitagora suiichi, would someone please create a perpetual motion machine already?
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where did ya’ll get that music? We are maken’ a project titled “japanese carnival” and it would be sah-weet if we had that little tune an jingle to accomodate it.
se ya’ll in the future!
Randi