When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. At least that’s what the [Sprice Machines] thought when they decided to turn a house into the set of a 9-minute long Rube Goldberg machine to make lemonade. (Video embedded below.) The complex chain reactions runs across multiple rooms, using everyday objects like brooms and even a vibrating smartphone to transfer energy across the complex contraption.
While the team professionally builds Rube Goldberg machines for clients, the Lemonade Machine looks surprisingly organic, like something a family might decide to do for fun over a long weekend (although there area few moments that make you question just how they were able to perfectly time every sequence in the chain reaction). Even though the actual lemonade making only takes up a small fraction of the machine, watching marble runs, weights dashing across a clothesline, and random household items repurposed into energy transfer mechanisms is really entertaining.
The [Sprice Machines] have been making Rube Goldberg machines for quite some time, posting the videos of their final runs on YouTube. Other builders for the Lemonade Machine included [Hevesh5], [DrComplicated], [DoodleChaos], [TheInvention11], [5MadMovieMakers], and [SmileyPeaceFun].
If you’re into Rube Goldberg machines, check out some of the other awesome projects that we’ve featured over the years on the blog.
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What do you mean “team professionally builds Rube Goldberg machines for clients”.
How is that a business? But I am glad that it is.
All that and it doesn’t even make the lemonade? I feel cheated.
Note that in some parts of the world, this would be a Heath Robinson machine.
Or Storm P.
Curious that 3 illustrators all born into the same age found the same recognition for the same unique genre of illustration.
I suppose you could chock it up to the cross cultural social interests of the day, after all, the popular science and technology periodicals were bursting with outlandish schemes of all sorts.
Age of invention.
When life gives you lemons,
make melons!
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“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
My OCD wouldn’t let me stop thinking that they left the water running.
At least they turned off the cock for the lemonade at the end. :-)
Is fun to watch. Bitch of a reset cycle and doesnt actually make lemonade. Lot more of a domino effect machine. Missing seemingly perpetual self reset angle.
Umm… now who will clean that up and put the things back into their place … that gives me the jitters!