Our Machine Theme was Carnival Or Fair. We chose our theme because when we decided on our theme when it was right after summer. We were thinking of all the fun experiences we had over the summer. One thing that popped into our mind was the Main County Fair. We decided to make that our theme and base it off a carnival or fair. Our end task was to make a confetti popper go off to represent fireworks at the carnival.

Steps:

1. Ball rolls down our first inclined.
2. Ball falls into pulley.
3. Lever moves up and ball resting on the lever rolls down
4. Ball free falls through the funnel and onto another inclined plane.
5. Ball hits and knocks the toy car down the inclined plane.
6. The car pops the balloon at the end with the nail glued on top.
7. The ball waiting inside the balloon falls out and down another inclined plane.
8. Waiting at the end of the inclined plane is another large marble, when the ball hits the bigger ball the bigger ball rolls through our tube and out.
9. The large ball then rolls out into the last inclined plane
10. The large ball then knocks down the weighted cup off the wood plank at the end.
11. When the weighted cup fall it tugs on the confetti popper string and causes it to pop.

Final Blueprint

This is our final blueprint for our Rube Goldberg machine. Each square represents two inches. The board in total is 48 inches by 48 inches. Everything is drawn to size and dimensions are correct.