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Drew’s Video of the Day: 300-Step Rube Goldberg Machine [VIDEO]
I've always been fascinated with Rube Goldberg machines. Mousetrap was my favorite board game growing up! So of course a World-Record-setting Rube Goldberg machine caught my interest with little effort.
A team at Purdue designed and built the device, which takes 300 steps to blow up a baloon, then pop it.
Nobody said it had to do anything important!
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