Video: Thanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube Goldberg machines are more popular than ever. But this wonderful kinetic sculpture actually uses the internet as one of its countless mechanisms so that it’s able to play out across five different cities across the United States.
Called Common Ground, the cross-country Rube Goldberg machine was spearheaded by Jason Naumoff and Ajamu White of New Creatures design studio, and it uses clever tricks like sending text messages, or triggering remote printers, to keep the action going uninterrupted from one city to the next.
[Common Ground via Neatorama