Purdue’s Society of Professional Engineers and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers have created the world’s most complex Rube Goldberg machine. The 300-step machine has set a new record for the largest functioning Rube Goldberg machine, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a simple task in a complex fashion. In this case, the engineers created a machine to blow up a balloon and pop it. The team complete two runs in West Lafayette, Ind.
The team spent 5,000 hours building the machine. Last year, the same team created a machine that had 244 steps.
via Venture Beat
[Photo credit: World Records Academy]
