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By admin, March 31, 2010 7:36 pm

Rube Goldberg machine:?

I have to do a school project by creating a rube goldberg machine. I want to hear some interesting ideas I can use for each type of energy. It’s not cheating, because I already know what ideas I can use for my machine, I just want to earn those extra points by having some types other kids may not have.

This gave me some ideas when I had to do it in school as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o This is a youtube video of a Honda Accord commercial that is a huge rube goldberg machine

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