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    The Traveling Rube Goldberg Machine

    Melvin the Mini Machine uses a smartphone and software to determine its location, write messages and recognize the people around him.

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    He uses a app custom built by Michael Schifferling that takes a picture and sends it to a webserver, where an image URL and GPS data are added to a database.

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