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This category uses physics and engineering concepts and methods to create a comically involved and complicated invention contrived to perform a simple operation.
Definition: A Rube Goldberg assembly, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883-1970).
A successful Rube Goldberg entry must have the following:
A minimum of 10 ’cause and effect’ steps
Inclusion of three simple machines (e.g. lever, wheel and axle, pulley, incline plane, screw, wedge)
Written sequential procession from beginning to final step
Below is a Google Slide presentation about Rube Goldberg Machines. This is what you will use to guide you through the process. It is required to use this in order to complete the project. You won't be able to finish it all at once, so pay attention to the slide number where you stop. You can watch it on the small screen, or you can click the slide to see a square with an arrow show up so you can enlarge it.
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