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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 ...

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 ...

Rube Goldberg Workshop is now available on Quest, letting you make tons of different crazy—dare we say—Rube Goldbergian machines. Built on Quest’s Presence platform, users can choose to play either in ...

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, ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

Since its launch, Minecraft has provided players with an almost endless world to show off their creativity in. Players can use various types of blocks to build just about anything. While most blocks ...