I love Rube Goldberg like contraptions! That's an amazing amount of mechanical engineering and while it only accomplishes a single task it's astonishing to me that it requires so much hardware to do what a human being can do in a few simple motions.
I bet the folks that built that machine watched a lot of Wallace and Gromit as kids...
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I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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