Rube Goldberg machine

This is Rube Goldberg himself, this is the man that made rube goldberg machines.

he did things opposite, most engineers say the simplest design is the best design, that is mostly true but he decided to make a machine of the opposite principles

As you can see the theme is halloween

We decided to do halloween as it was near the time when we thought of it

Here is a video of our board in action (It didnt transfer over)

Its made up of 10 steps with 5 simples machine, (Some are used more than ones)

Here are the steps, Calculations are below

#1 An Inclined plane

#2 A pulley

#3 A wedge

#4 A lever

#5 A second part of the lever

#6 Another pulley

#7 A cup dropping balls Into a funnel

#8 A screw tube

#9 The balls from the funnel hit a weight

#10 The weight pulls on a platform holing candy, dropping it finishing the machine

Calculation page #1

Calculation Page #2

Sorry for the poor camera quality and handwritting

first blueprint

other blueprint

People in my group and slide show

Easton jacobson

Landon mitchel

Nicholas Lundin

Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GGb2g4yYN4rJM_-0KMYLWsLcG5u1NWySmUCS3pqWGEM/edit#slide=id.p

Rube Goldberg project

Reflection

I feel this project essentially kickstarted my engineering career and made me really interested, I have always been better with hands on learning and this made me really enjoy the class. I pulled my fair share of weight and made me, my teamates, and teachers proud. It wouldnt be a project I did If I didnt Try to add some things I wanted that might have been a stretch, I made a few silly gadgets that worked, but they were inconsistant, inaccurate, and broke often. Like a catapult that got torn apart by its own power. I really enjoyed this project, If I could do it again I would rathe have a teamate that doesnt get sick for a week at the begining.

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