The dudes at Dude Perfect, an insanely popular YouTube channel, made a wild Rube Goldberg-type contraption: the World’s Longest Trick Shot Machine. The Texas-based bros collaborated on the 10-minute masterpiece with one of my favorite chain reaction-device creators, Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines. Behold!
screengrab: Dude Perfect/YT
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The odds seem astronomically high in this Rube Goldberg-style “trick-shot” stunt. Cree, whose YouTube page is all about Rube Goldberg machines and/or trick shots of all sorts, has set up a maze for six ping pong balls – each in its own starting lane (created by what looks like Scrabble racks) to travel through, with… READ THE REST
The Swish Machine takes 70 steps and over 3 minutes from start to swish, and “the machine took a month to build and another month to successfully work.” The shot was filmed in one take, with no cuts. That’s dedication! Image: YouTube / Creezy READ THE REST
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