Over the course of 9 build days in our maker space me and my 3 other teammates have created our first high school STEM project, our Rube Goldberg machine. A Rube Goldberg machine is a chain reaction-type machine or contraption that is intentionally designed to perform a task in an indirect and overly complicated way. Our machines theme was haunted house due to the fact that we were presenting it in the beginning of October. The goal was to give the viewers a piece of candy as if they were trick or treating at a haunted house. We had many competitors for the haunted house/Halloween theme but I believe that we did a pretty good job at displaying and showing what our theme was. We had caution tape, spiders, spider webs, bats, a velvet fabric on our ramp like the carpets of haunted houses, eyeballs, a light up ghost, and bloody writing on the board. On the left i have included a video of our Rube Goldberg project and its workings.
Build day 1: Transfer Blueprint to board and cut out ramp one
Build day 2: Screwed on Ramp #1 base + half pipe and prepared second pipe
Build day 3: Cut out Ramp #2
Build day 4: Painted board, cute side pieces, screwed start of ramp #2, prepared wheels
Build day 5: Fabricated pieces, cut wedge, and completed ramp 1 and 2
Build day 6: Started Pulley System and rescrewed side pieces
Build day 7: Fixed and changed pipe
Build day 8: Finished Pulley System, touched up board, and attached new pipe
Build day 9: Decorated board