ピタゴラスイッチ – Pythagora Switch

Saw series of these videos on eBaum (from Deadlock), but since we’re both anti-eBaum, Deadlock suggested that I try to find another source. Searching on Google took a bit, but I finally found what I believe to be the source of the videos, or at least a somewhat higher quality version of the videos: 箸おきと靴みがき | ピタゴラ装置動画.

The original show is hosted on NHK (in Japan): 幼稚園・保育所番組のひろば|ピタゴラスイッチ. It appears to be a children’s program, which makes sense.

This is a set of videos following the likes of Rube Goldberg’s contraptions. Some are short; some are long; some are simple; some are rather complex. Anyone that like to follow Rube Goldberg’s contraptions would love to see these videos. Do note, the video sizes range from 500KB to 9MB, and before the video is show, it requires downloading the entire film. If you want, you can also download directly using the “download movie” link provided on each page. One of the things they could’ve done better was to actually show how the contraptions work step by step. Some of the times, I had to guess what was exactly happening, though most of the time, it was pretty easy to guess.

Instead of direct liking to their videos, I’ve uploaded it onto my gallery:

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After searching online trying to figure out what Pita Gora stood for, it turns out to be “Pythagora Switch”. Pythagoras links directly to the mathematician. I don’t think Pythagoras (founder of Pythagorean theorem) made any device or switch similar, but the TV show just borrowed the name because it’s education related.

Side Note: I was originally hitting issues with the movie’s being played on my site and for some reason, the caching was broken where the file I downloaded didn’t match the original. I went ahead and updated Gallery to 2.1 and it’s been working fine so far. Of course, with every upgrade, there comes the question if I broke anything else, since I do have a few customizations of my own. If you see any problems with Gallery, please do let me know and I’ll fix it asap.

3 Replies to “ピタゴラスイッチ – Pythagora Switch”

  1. So I googled some more and found some flash renderings of the above videos:

    flash video 1
    flash video 2

    I also found this: ピタゴラ装置, which has the video link on the bottom: pythagoras.wmv. Doesn’t look like one from the show (since it doesn’t have the music nor the ending criteria), but was somewhat entertaining.

    enjoy!

    //Krunk (^_^x)

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