This Rube Goldberg Basketball Machine Has Enough Tricks to Be a Harlem Globetrotter
by Andrew Liszewski on Sploid, shared by Barry Petche from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3GHF9)
It seems not even basketball court jester is a job that's safe from from the rise of the machines. Students from Georgia Tech built a giant Rube Goldberg contraption that's capable of reproducing many of the Harlem Globetrotter's most crowd-pleasing tricks; from spinning a ball on a finger, to simply sinking baskets.