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Wacky Automation Device Winners

Project14 \| Winners Announcement: Rube Goldberg Wacky Automation Devices!



Congratulations to dougw for Purple Panic Button , carmelito for Automated Tea Dunker , and Workshopshed for Voice activated torch using a Rube Goldberg Machine . You are the winners of the Wacky Automation Devices project competition from Project14!

Your Chance to Win

Be Original	Stick to the Theme
You could come up with a clever name that make's your project memorable! This project is your baby! Part of the fun of bringing something new into the world is coming up with a name. Your project could introduce something new or that is not commercially available or affordable!	If you have an idea for a project that doesn't fit the current theme then submit your idea in the comments section of the monthly poll.
List the Steps	Submit Video Proof
Provide the steps you took to complete your project (text, video, or images). This could be a step by step how-to-guide, vlog, schematics, coding, napkin drawings, voice narration, or whatever you think will be useful!	If it doesn't work that's fine, this is more about the journey than the end product. A short video is all that is required but you can shoot as much video as you like. You are encouraged to be creative and have as much fun as possible!

Your Monthly Theme

The Monthly Theme You Voted For: Wacky Automation Device (aka Rube Goldberg Machine)
Earn a $100 Shopping Cart with Your Wacky Automation Device!




This month's theme is Wacky Automation Devices and comes from dougw. The idea is to come up with an automation device similar to a Rube Goldberg machine. A Rube Goldberg machine is a complex contraption in which a series of devices perform simple tasks and are linked together to produce a domino effect whereby activation of one device triggers the next device in the sequence. As you may have guessed this contraption was named after the inventor who was also an American cartoonist as well as a degreed Engineer (Berkeley). Rube Goldberg appeared in print to describe elaborate contraptions in 1928 before finally making its appearance in Random House Dictionary of the English Language in 1966. You've probably witnessed the influence of Rube Goldberg in cartoons, movies or TV shows you've watched. Depictions of overly engineered contraptions leading to intense chain reactions resulting in simple results can be seen in movies such as the Goonies, Beauty and the Beast, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Ernest Goes to Jail.

Your Projects, Your Ideas

Your Projects

Your Ideas

What are Monthly Themes?

Every month (around the 14th of each month) a new theme will be posted on Project14.
Submit your ideas (proposals) for your projects to get feedback from the rest of the community.
Submit a project entry in the Theme space once you start working on it.

What are Monthly Theme Polls?

Every month (around the 14th of each month) there is a project theme poll.
Vote on which project competition you want to see for the following upcoming theme.
- The themes voted on during the previous poll decided the upcoming theme.
- If you submit an idea for a theme that is not used then it can still be used in a future poll.
Themes comments and ideas from the comments section of the project theme poll.

Subject		Author
	Project14 \| Build Your Own Wacky Automation (Rube Goldberg) Device! 6 months ago in Wacky Automation Devices	by tariq.ahmad
	Voice activated torch using a Rube Goldberg Machine 6 months ago in Wacky Automation Devices	by Andy Clark (Workshopshed)
	Purple Panic Button 6 months ago in Wacky Automation Devices	by dougw
	Automated Tea Dunker 6 months ago in Wacky Automation Devices	by carmelito
	Project14 \| Using Rube Goldberg Projects to Consider Design Engineering 7 months ago in Wacky Automation Devices	by tariq.ahmad
	Purple Panic Button Build 6 months ago in Project14	by dougw
	Purple Panic 6 months ago in Project14	by dougw
	The Drinkmotizer - a Raspberry Pi Drink Mixing Robot 7 months ago in Raspberry Pi Projects	by Cabe Atwell