Tag: machine

Spectaculous! Ridonkeykong!

Kevin says:

The only thing I can claim is being proud of knowing many of the people who had been working on it for months. That and scavenging a number of the major props which are currently sitting in Theory Labs or are being built into my new bedroom… The wall they stand against at the end? Now behind my bed… Not sure what to do with the air cannons but I’m sure we can find a use for them if we just apply ourselves…

So… Behold OK GO’s new video and the Rube Goldberg machine that all of our friends have worked on…

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version

The Making Of: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Also, for the same song, the Marching Band video.

To out-weigh the cost of making it, it has to run 24/7

“Built by Krupp, seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine), it is cheaper to move the thing like this, than to construct or re-assemble on-site.The mover stands at over 311 feet tall and is over 705 feet long. It weighs over 45,500 tons (yes that’s 45 thousand tons!) Cost $100 million USD, took 5 years to design & manufacture and 5 years to assemble. It only requires 5 people to operate it. The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material. A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets. It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 7′-10″ high and 46 feet long).There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back. It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3 mile/hour). It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters (100,000 large dump trucks at 40Yds. each of overburden per day).”

others of this family found http://mining-technology.com/