A Rube Goldberg contraption is a series of complicated steps used in order to accomplish a simple household task, such as squeezeing an orange for a glass of orange juice. RGBs are completely pointless, but people love making them, setting them off, watching them, and some people even enjoy the fouty-eight hours of cleanup after a good sized contraption.


I often make them at my house, one of which amost completely filled up my basement, all that was clear were a few neat little paths to walk though. My collection of dominoes has grown to about 40,000 and i have this thing that i do with craft sticks that i call Herringbone, which was inspired by Tim Fort (http://lunatim.com/). I have made one that took me two weeks of almost solid work. It took about 7 minutes to completely level, but it was awesome. Unfortunately i didnt video tape it. Dx

So. Im RGBfanatic. RGB, as you might have figured out, stands for Rube Goldberg. Now if you Google / Wiki / Youtube RGB or Rube Goldberg, you will find about 4,089,661 O's on the google sign, and about 3,999,993 of those are crappy.
So, I've taken the liberty of narrowing it down.

So, first off there are a few Japanese RGBs.

Here is a few of the real, japanese rube goldbergs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D3wAA4448U

This one isn't Japanese, but its got fire ^.^! They made it into a real video called how things work. My cuz has it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8fpPf7Y0g

No, this one doesn't have fire, but it is Japanese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88LiQfol6JI&feature=PlayList&p=3A29D422B90362B1&index=1

Here's another, but someone else took credit for it... xD its stilll good though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVoKpCUtV7I&feature=PlayList&p=3A29D422B90362B1&index=0

This one is a Honda ad, and its made almost completely out of Hona's car parts. Its pretty cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2VCfOC69jc&feature=PlayList&p=3A29D422B90362B1&index=15

Here is some of FlippyCat, a youtube dominoist's work. He is pretty good, one of youtube's best.

Flippy cat's four leaf clover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2AdmXw0Ck&NR=1

Flippy Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jMBNesc-8k&NR=1

Flippy cat's Invention, dominoes from dominoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUpHfQXTx4k

Flippy cat's Domona Lisa field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6mLPURj3_k&NR=1

Flippy cat's puzzle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8qTmrDbYg&NR=1

A Flippy Cat 3-D Pyramid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKGUhgMVINE&NR=1

Flippy cat's race of the towers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMN8rIaXc1Q&NR=1

Flippy cat's 'split ends'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxa3zUXHLI0&feature=user

13,000 pickup , By Flippy Cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNzUXNRnuJg&NR=1

Here are a few people's videos that have made their own RGBs.

Here is a profesional Japanesse Nationals Competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvdq8cRNBM&feature=related

And a random dude's simple RGB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhhGeDBsGA0&feature=related

Here is a cool Billiards Domino one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFI3FOOzyDY&feature=related

an amazingly complicated, yet compact RGB with a vending machine theme. (part one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S62reINAvY&feature=related

(part two)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGbu7HWSJ9A&feature=related

a cool voting machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zN0J_JFFi0&feature=related

As it turns out there is accually a worldwide domino day too!
These videos were made on it!


An amatuer one with 30,000 dominoes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vLvDaFoJK4&NR=1

Domino day 5...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Qu67Hn-I0&feature=related

SemiProfessional TV show CD player Domino day 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRwkoCIl-E&NR=1

Celtic Forest 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39WQVq_W-s&feature=related

Domino day for his father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpBXCF58cVs&NR=1

Not domino day, but its a mothers day gift :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RumqsN_j5Jg&NR=1

Here are some people's setups. not really themed, but they are cool.

4,000 domino setup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJB7L1-iWt4&NR=1

Someone's 100th setup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OUIGrEVjNQ&NR=1

Someone trying to make a colosal pyramid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YmdX2EAEY0&feature=fvw

A second attempt...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0YD5WQwyx4

A third...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfUmJblFZk&feature=related

The Finish! He made it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIt9gu-T_i4&feature=fvw

Some random dude's collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFndT0JOP0&NR=1

Someone's Tricks with Dominoes collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVq5NKwfgY&NR=1

A New Years collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGdJmsN3Nmw&NR=1

A domino wall test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhfGErEcgJM&NR=1

Here are some RGBs that dont only include dominoes, but other apparatus as well.

Mostly dominoes, but all awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3y4GMb-yas&feature=related

An amazing setup...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY4c70X7chg&NR=1

A big setup that obviously was messed up a few times, and they pretended they changed scenes, but simply cut off right befor it messed up and fixed it in a differant scene... *epic inhalement*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqe-xbmHGj8

Another Contraption...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX23dfrWIiw

Simply a ball rollercoaster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYYfJAMP-BE&NR=1

some college dude with WAY too much time and popsicle sticks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUqu6QE7bw&NR=1

And... A STARWARS RUBE GOLDBERG!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rspYOxcnaTk&NR=1

And just for fun,
I present to you,
The
one
and
only...

CARD TOWER DEMOLITION!!!

pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5NVkGtZ0Y&NR=1

pt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bBi4jeJySw&NR=1

pt 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG_Fnh_ikFk&NR=1

pt 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Hay-kvhe8&feature=related

pt 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43zU0NG5s0&NR=1

Enjoy this list!
These were all in my Favorites, i just put links to them all here. This is only like half of what ive got. xD

for those who don't understand, think: begging of the peewee herman movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEa-UTsCvU

Quote from 2-D

for those who don't understand, think: begging of the peewee herman movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEa-UTsCvU

How is this character alive?

Japan Crazy Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhTumSfBwI

Quote from AsSeenOnTV

How is this character alive?

Japan Crazy Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhTumSfBwI

lol, i remember those

Quote from AsSeenOnTV

How is this character alive?

Japan Crazy Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhTumSfBwI

Oh yeah i forgot those ones.
Ima edit them in now.

Quote from 2-D

for those who don't understand, think: begging of the peewee herman movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEa-UTsCvU

The Begging? Did you mean the Begining?

yes, good detective work there.

Quote from RGBfanatic

The Begging? Did you mean the Begining?

The Begining? Did you mean the Beginning?
also I always thought your name was about red green and blue, like you really loved colors or something

rube goldberg machines are pretty tight though

You clearly have no knowledge of what I'm talking about, since that's a pretty reasonable conclusion to come to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model
RGB values are used to display color on your monitor, which is a pretty commonly known fact among internet users that would be going to this sort of forum, or at least I thought

I doubt anyone (before you posted this thread or your signature) had any idea your name stood for Rube Goldberg

I know what it means, man.
Im not that stupid...
Okay, i guess they might not have known...


*edit* i worked hard on this thread. No one is even posting or looking at it. :(

If you like these rube goldberg things so much, you should get gmod and make some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae6ovaDBiDE

LOTD threads never get much traffic. There are some cool examples there though.

LOTD? whats that mean? 2-D i tried to get a gmod account and i almost did, but then they make you type that code thingy and my stupid computer only shows me that little red x in the corner.... -.-

link of the day
and stop using internet explorer