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08/31/2020 at 17:24 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
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Seth Goldstein is a biomedical engineer who retired in 2002 after a 31-year career at the National Institutes of Health. Since then, he’s pivoted into mechanical sculptures. Here’s an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about his latest: an exercise bike that scratches his back and delivers him cookies while he pedals.
By pedaling the stationary bike, Goldstein triggers a chain reaction that causes the machine to scratch his back, fan him, pour him a mug of water and — if he really earns it — serve him a cookie.
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All told, the device features five chains, six bands and 10 timing belts transferring motion throughout the system. Each cycle finishes with the deflation of a balloon, which releases a barrier blocking the cookie. The baked good then falls onto a turntable before a conveyor belt brings it to Goldstein. As long as he keeps pedaling, the process repeats.
“One of my principles when I make things is I want to have it be a cycle, so that the thing resets itself,” Goldstein says. “I like that feature.”
Personally, my favorite Rube Goldberg machine shall always be this bit from Sesame Street.
Just Jeepin'
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08/31/2020 at 18:01 |
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That Sesame Street clip is awesome. The machine r eminded me of the Doozers.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
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08/31/2020 at 18:21 |
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I don’t think the dessert at the end was keto-friendly.
Jb boin
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08/31/2020 at 19:43 |
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Makes me think of this Wintergatan with his marble machine :