Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

You know what taught me this the best? Watching Mythbusters.

Time and time again amazingly complex machines and they just fail to perform better than a rubber-band and bubble gum.

eh.. there were series of clips named something like 'Industrial JP' showing the multiaxis (like 6 to 12 axis) spring coil forming machines working

This stuff just can not be reimplemented that simple and be expected to work.

The music was also quite good imo.