inspiration day: rube goldberg machines

overly complicated, unnecessarily elaborate, completely impractical. the story of my life.

rube goldberg was an engineer before he started drawing comics for a living. he is best remembered for his cartoons of elaborate devices that preform simple tasks through a series of chain reactions.

he has inspired tons of people to invent overly complicated, impractical machines. a few of my favorites:

and a fantastic tutorial for how to make your own rube goldberg machine: