Hasta La Gadget!

Fridays before long weekends are the worst. It’s not even 10 AM on the East Coast, and I already feel like I’ve put in a full day’s work. Thankfully, this video is exactly what I need to make it, well, to noon, at least.

It’s the result of an “informal Rube Goldberg summer camp for kids ages 3-8,” which, frankly, sounds a lot more exciting than the Jewish and Boy Scout camps that I went to, growing up.

This video has all the makings of a viral hit for the sleepy long summer weekend: an involved Rube Goldberg-esque machine and a lot of really, really excited children (not to mention, perhaps most importantly of all, a plug on Boing Boing). The goal was to put a rubber ball in a pail, and the device succeeds with flying colors.

There’s not a lot of information about this “informal summer camp,” which, honestly, seems to be a bunch of kids hanging out at house building neat stuff, but hopefully they’ll extend the age range by a couple of decades next summer.