Rube Goldberg Machine with a Shotgun

A Rube Goldberg machine is intentionally designed to perform a simple task as a result of an overly complicated set of chain reactions. It was named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg who was very popular from 1914 until his death in 1970. Goldberg drew cartoons depicting gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways.Show more

The 1985 cult film Peewee's Big Adventure featured an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine in the breakfast scene. This stoked the public's interest in the machines. In 1987, Purdue University in Indiana started an annual National Rube Goldberg machine contest. More recently, you can find dozens of videos on the internet of incredibly complex machines.

But I've never seen one that started and ended with the blast of a 12-gauge shotgun. And, seeing as this is Guns.com, I decided to change that.