Johns Hopkins freshman mechanical engineering students engaged in an annual rite of passage on the Homewood campus last week, as 23 student teams and their cleverly crafted contraptions took part in ...

Pulleys, robots, catapults, dominoes, ramps, weights, gears and even mousetraps all came into play as students from area schools worked together to build a giant Rube Goldberg style machine. Maker ...

What takes over 20 different steps in order to shine a shoe? Nothing, in a world other than the one created by the Rube Goldberg club. For the fourth year, several UA engineering students are working ...

The 15th annual Challenge Day on Thursday brought together 135 gifted fifth-graders from Dauphin County's 10 school districts. In teams of five, students built crazy contraptions to do simple tasks, ...

Familiar to anyone who played The Incredible Machine, this pleasing puzzle game challenges you to cobble together Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. It's a blast. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

After 72-hours of non-stop welding, machining, and wiring, 12 teams spent last Sunday McCarren Park in Brooklyn, showing off their maker builds as part of the Red Bull Creation event. The challenge: ...