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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 ...

Have you ever wanted to build a ridiculous contraption with your kids? The sort of homemade machine that takes a simple, everyday task—like, I don’t know, passing the salt—and makes it unnecessarily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Virtual Reality is often characterized as a solitary experience, but it doesn't have to be. Games like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, a multiplayer bomb-defusal game, demonstrate VR's ability to ...

After 72-hours of non-stop welding, machining, and wiring, 12 teams spent last Sunday McCarren Park in Brooklyn, showing off their maker builds as part of the Red Bull Creation event. The challenge: ...

Turn your settlement into a factory and your settlers into targets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm building a machine that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm here to help you understand video games. Rube Goldberg seems to be the operative concept here. That's the impression I got ...