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Brett Doar's complex machines of pulleys and ramps and colorful parts have been featured in music videos and TV commercials, but on Tuesday, his newest stage was the DuPage Children's Museum.
The Naperville museum featured the man known as Hollywood's "King of Creative Contraptions" during an Innovation Open House that gave kids the chance to build a Rube Goldberg-style machine and visitors the chance to see it in action.
Two classes of students from John W. Gates Elementary in Aurora began building with Doar in the morning, following his instructions with their own creative ideas to link areas of the "Make it Move" room into one connected, moving machine.
Doar, a creative technologist who has built contraptions for the band OK Go's music video "This Too...