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Leonardo's Basement hosts its annual Rube Goldgberg building challenge.
Friday night, trek on down to 43rd and Nicollet to Southwest Minneapolis' local hacker space for a big dose of fun. Leonardo's Basement is hosting their fifth annual Rube Goldgberg building competition from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. This year's theme, according to a post on the Kingfield Neighborhood Association's website, is "chemical causation." "This means that we will be really happy if your portion of the causation machine contains a simple or elaborate chemical reaction as part of its mechanical operation," the post says. For $15, you'll get to help create a giant homage to the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, famous for designing fanciful—and completely impractical—machines to perform simple household tasks. Here's what we wrote when we …
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