Autonomous Nacho Assembly: The Rube Goldberg of Snacks

If there’s one thing the future needs, it’s a snack machine that takes fifteen steps to melt cheese — by creating the most convoluted nacho-making machine this side of OK Go’s music videos. Forget straightforward assembly lines — this is about over-the-top, mind-bending cause-and-effect chaos. Because why settle for boring nachos when you can unleash a snack-time symphony of levers, pulleys, and questionable engineering?

This contraption begins with a toy train loaded with tortilla chips that triggers a chain of dominos, each falling with exaggerated drama. The last domino flips a switch, which releases a marble that rolls down a winding ramp, setting off a wind-up chicken that pecks a button. That button activates a tiny catapult, launching a dollop of molten cheese across the table — hopefully in the direction of the chips.

Then a hamster-powered Ferris wheel—because obviously—spins and drops pickled onions from above like confetti at the world’s weirdest wedding. A small cannon (safety first!) fires jalapeños onto a spinning sombrero, which deflects them onto the nachos in a questionable but highly entertaining pattern. A hair dryer—propped up by more levers—cools the cheese with all the finesse of a 1980s game show host, all while the OK Go soundtrack plays in the background, because who else could choreograph a snack this wild?

Is this a practical way to make nachos? Not even close. But is it the most delightfully absurd way to embrace the future of autonomous technology? Oh, absolutely.