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What is a Rube Goldberg Machine?
What is a Rube Goldberg Machine?
The Rube Goldberg machine, was originally a comic book strip created by American cartoonist, Rube Goldberg. It was a machine that used a series of complex steps to accomplish a simple task. It later became a reality as people started to make their own machines based off their own designs and ideas.
VID_19730717_130256_811.mp4The Task
The Task
Our task was to create our own Rube Goldberg machine in our groups of 4. We had to complete our machine and a presentation in time for out first presentation night. The requirements for our project were to have a theme, 10 steps, 5 simple machines, 4 energy transfers, blueprints, and a construction log. Our goal was to wake somebody up by popping a water balloon over them. To reflect our theme we made our board resemble a bedroom as much as possible. For our presentation, we had somebody sit under the board and get soaked after giving our presentation. The main parts of our machine were the water balloon and the newton's cradle.
Original Blueprint
Original Blueprint
Final Blueprint
Final Blueprint
Day 2
Day 7
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Day 1 - We chose our board and started to mark things out
Day 2 - made the large ramps and a table for out alarm clock
Day 3 - Created the base to make the project stand on its own
Day 4 - We drilled hole into board and created a stand for the Newton’s cradle
Day 5 - Started working on the levers for the project
Day 6 - Started making the pulleys and figuring the weights needed for them to work
Day 7 - We finished pulley and decided to replace one of them
Day 8 - Worked on the most complex pieces of the project
Day 9 - Started working on how to pop the water balloon
Day 10+ - We tweaked the things that were still not working
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