[hackerspaces] big Puzzle/game for hackers/makers

[Joshua Pritt]

rube goldberg examples   =D

http://bit.ly/1rI4Yje




On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Florencia Edwards <floev22 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know it's a lot to ask , but for a rube golberg machine, , is there a
> good web page you would recommend  that shows mechanism examples?
>
>
> 2014-09-05 14:19 GMT-04:00 Randall Arnold <randall.arnold at texrat.net>:
>
>>  I like those ideas Joshua.
>>
>> Some of us in Fort Worth are holding an event based around modern
>> fabrication next January, and we don't have enough time for a true
>> hackathon so we're thinking along similar lines.  A constructive challenge
>> where everyone is faced with solving the same "problem" and we judge on
>> creativity, success, etc.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>>  On September 5, 2014 at 1:10 PM Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  hmmm perhaps pull in some parts from the Snap Circuits so that each
>> person has a "challenge" to build a light or fan or buzzer. that turns on
>> from a button press or something.
>> http://www.snapcircuits.net/
>>
>>  Or some sort of mouse trap / Rube Goldberg machine that each person has
>> to set up each "piece" correctly so that when it's started it will complete
>> all the way through successfully?
>>
>>
>>
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>>  On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Florencia Edwards <floev22 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  We are going to be at a fair with a stand, and we thought, how cool it
>>> would be to have a for example, a board strategy game , where people who go
>>> to the fair can start sitting in and play. But, we are a makerspace, so we
>>> need to show through this game/ puzzle the kind of stuff we do. So it would
>>> be cool it was some sort of game a lot of people can play at the same time,
>>> but they have to build something, prgoram, connect stuff... Do you now
>>> anything like this? Or do you have an idea of what it could be?
>>>
>>>  We are open for proposals and critics
>>>
>>>  Cheers
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