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NOTCOT.ORG: Power of Optics, a Rube Goldberg machine created for Hikari, high-speed optical internet that uses light and magnifying glasses.
8 comments:
Becki Liu
said...
This is, hands down, the best Rube Goldberg machine that I have ever seen! It's such a simple concept and yet so strong and so beautiful! The funny thing is that as kids we learn that if you take a magnifying glass and aim it at an ant the sun's light being magnified will burn it. And then you see this. OPTICS ARE BADASS. My friend and I are always saying how nature is so badass and science is totally badass too! After this nothing can be as cool!! There is really nothing else I can say about it because after watching it, I was just in awe of how cool it is!!!!!
This is a gorgeous and brilliant rube goldberg machine. My favorite rube projects are those that have a joining theme throughout the run and I think the use of light in this one for those purposes definitely accomplishes the goal. One of the other things that ive noticed in rube projects is that you are always having to negotiate a transfer of energy, and I think the projects that use light and fire for this end are really smart. It takes very little energy to get it started, but the end result can produce a lot of energy to trigger something else. Thats always the challenge. Its easy to keep using energy, but how do you get something with a low energy end point to reintroduce energy into the system?
I love viewing these Rube Goldberg machines in action. It's so cool to see all of those complicated devices to create simple tasks that we use in our everyday lives. I remember watching a 45 minute long video of someone doing this concept with a car and each step included a bunch of car parts and in the end a person unlocks and opens their car door. Even though it's obvious that these are not the steps to make that straightforward assignment work, it's definitely a creative and innovative way to think about a simple object. And if we're doing this soon, I hope everyone one is ready for some kick ass results!
Obviously this is a remarkable Rube Goldberg Machine, but even more than that I think its a great representation of the properties of light and how they can be affected and controlled through a series of optics. I think we often take for granted the optics of a light when we focus a leko. We all know the optics are extremely important and they serve as the backbone of any unit and its capabilities, but I think we often get so caught up in using certain optics a particular way that we limit our scope and forget the amazing possibilities that they enable specifically, and when coordinated together. This video does a great job of diagraming that in an awesome Rube Goldberg.
This design is absolutely amazing. I feel like you generally see the same thing in most Rube Goldbergs, and this takes it to a whole new 2014-inspired level. Not to mention that the entire thing was filmed in minimal lighting, which is an impressive feat in itself. I can only imagine how long it took to focus each of the individual mirrors and lights. The use of fire was interesting too, because you would normally expect Rube Goldbergs to stray away from it just because of how unpredictable it is, but they embraced every element in the most classy and impressive way I have seen to this day.
I have seen this Rube Goldberg pop up everywhere over the last couple of days. It is really neat and well done, but some parts of it seem too good to be true. The light reflecting off of the wet surface in the middle seems improbable, especially in how effective it seems to be. The prism at the end also seems fishy, as I find it hard to believe it just fell the right way. I suppose that maybe they just got lucky on this take though, and that it could be possible just difficult. Personally I would love to see a behind the scenes or a making of video, because it is a really neat project and I'd love to see how they overcame the challenges of harnessing light as the power source.
WOW! JUST WOW! THIS IS SO AMAZING! This is very beautiful. We used to play with this kind of stuffs before when we were in school and we know how pretty this optics and make but this is just blowing my mind. And according to all the previous comments above, HA-Ha-Ha Rube Goldberg Machine. I would not miss this year rube for all the reasons in the world if they take this idea and really make one that we all CMU people could see with our very own eyes ( Sorry freshmen, we are just giving you a challenge) . Anyway, Love this, it's awesome.
8 comments:
This is, hands down, the best Rube Goldberg machine that I have ever seen! It's such a simple concept and yet so strong and so beautiful! The funny thing is that as kids we learn that if you take a magnifying glass and aim it at an ant the sun's light being magnified will burn it. And then you see this. OPTICS ARE BADASS. My friend and I are always saying how nature is so badass and science is totally badass too! After this nothing can be as cool!! There is really nothing else I can say about it because after watching it, I was just in awe of how cool it is!!!!!
This is a gorgeous and brilliant rube goldberg machine. My favorite rube projects are those that have a joining theme throughout the run and I think the use of light in this one for those purposes definitely accomplishes the goal. One of the other things that ive noticed in rube projects is that you are always having to negotiate a transfer of energy, and I think the projects that use light and fire for this end are really smart. It takes very little energy to get it started, but the end result can produce a lot of energy to trigger something else. Thats always the challenge. Its easy to keep using energy, but how do you get something with a low energy end point to reintroduce energy into the system?
Freshman... You have your challenge
I love viewing these Rube Goldberg machines in action. It's so cool to see all of those complicated devices to create simple tasks that we use in our everyday lives. I remember watching a 45 minute long video of someone doing this concept with a car and each step included a bunch of car parts and in the end a person unlocks and opens their car door. Even though it's obvious that these are not the steps to make that straightforward assignment work, it's definitely a creative and innovative way to think about a simple object. And if we're doing this soon, I hope everyone one is ready for some kick ass results!
Obviously this is a remarkable Rube Goldberg Machine, but even more than that I think its a great representation of the properties of light and how they can be affected and controlled through a series of optics. I think we often take for granted the optics of a light when we focus a leko. We all know the optics are extremely important and they serve as the backbone of any unit and its capabilities, but I think we often get so caught up in using certain optics a particular way that we limit our scope and forget the amazing possibilities that they enable specifically, and when coordinated together. This video does a great job of diagraming that in an awesome Rube Goldberg.
This design is absolutely amazing. I feel like you generally see the same thing in most Rube Goldbergs, and this takes it to a whole new 2014-inspired level. Not to mention that the entire thing was filmed in minimal lighting, which is an impressive feat in itself. I can only imagine how long it took to focus each of the individual mirrors and lights. The use of fire was interesting too, because you would normally expect Rube Goldbergs to stray away from it just because of how unpredictable it is, but they embraced every element in the most classy and impressive way I have seen to this day.
I have seen this Rube Goldberg pop up everywhere over the last couple of days. It is really neat and well done, but some parts of it seem too good to be true. The light reflecting off of the wet surface in the middle seems improbable, especially in how effective it seems to be. The prism at the end also seems fishy, as I find it hard to believe it just fell the right way. I suppose that maybe they just got lucky on this take though, and that it could be possible just difficult. Personally I would love to see a behind the scenes or a making of video, because it is a really neat project and I'd love to see how they overcame the challenges of harnessing light as the power source.
WOW! JUST WOW! THIS IS SO AMAZING! This is very beautiful. We used to play with this kind of stuffs before when we were in school and we know how pretty this optics and make but this is just blowing my mind. And according to all the previous comments above, HA-Ha-Ha Rube Goldberg Machine. I would not miss this year rube for all the reasons in the world if they take this idea and really make one that we all CMU people could see with our very own eyes ( Sorry freshmen, we are just giving you a challenge) . Anyway, Love this, it's awesome.
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