Pitagora Suicchi

After spending too much time watching various videos on Youtube, we found these videos of Rube Goldberg machines that they made for segments on a Japanese kids' show called Pitagora Suicchi (Pythagorean Switch). A warning though, the music can get annoying and the video's a little over 4 minutes long.

We're suckers for these types of things. In my first year of design school I was required to make a similar type of machine that had to be powered by a steel ball and take up no more than 2 cubic feet while running a total of ten seconds. The other requirement was that it light a match in the end. And have a theme. Hard, but in the end, kind of fun. Mine had a New Year's theme, counted down from ten, played Aud Lang Syne and popped a balloon full of confetti to boot. I'm glad I'm not in school any more ;)