Monthly Archives: January 2018

Now at this time in the project we have developed a lot from the start. Our project is going fairly well, but we have decided that we are going to change our end goal, because we realized that it was going to be too messy and would most likely not work. But since we loved the beginning so much we kept it. We have decided that we our going to use the last goal, witch was to put a stamp on paper.  We went with stamping a stamp on paper. We thought this would be a great goal because it was easy but would take some good brain work. Here is our machine’s first steps, first a marble gets pushed  by our hands down a rapping paper tube that then at the end hits another ball witch then goes down the car racer then hit’s  a train midway and then the  train hit’s  dominos and goes under a tunnel witch hit’s more dominos and then the ball finishes and then the train goes down some train tracks that lead to dominos. Thats all we have done so far but our project is going fairly well.

In this process of the project we decide to chose an idea and start building a base to our project. We chose to pour sauce and cheese onto pasta. We then started fiddling with some old toys Mia had. Instead of making a design first like we should, we started building. Mia had a great car racer thing that we decided to use. We then based all the other steps on that car racer. The second step was to find  a chair and place some toys that could have a ball roll down a tube then the  car racer. After that we to figure out what step to do next. We were trying our hardest to find the best thing for our machine. We wanted it to be amazing  At this same time we were thinking about our end goal and were doubting it, because we were looking at all the toys and junk we had and we did not see anything at all we thought could work. We then started thinking about the mess it probably would make and we just really started thinking do we really want this to be our end goal and is it smart for us to waste time on this end goal that we most likely will change.

These past weeks we have been working on rube Goldberg simple machine projects. If you don’t know what a rube Goldberg is, it is a simple machine that does something simple. But instead off it taking one step like it would if we used a body part it takes many more steps. The hardest thing is that you can only use a body part at the first step the rest it hast to do on it’s own.  The first step to do was  pick partners, my friend Rebekah and Mia and I  decided to become a group. We second step was to decided on what days we were going to meet. We finally after going over everyones activities decided we were going to work on it on Saturday and if we needed more time we would work on Friday. Than we figured out whose house we were going to do it at, When we were deciding we had to make sure (A)it would be in a place that a had room,( b)would be safe,(C)  had some old good toys we could use. We then chose Mia’s and started coming up with ideas. One was to make instant Mac and Cheese, we really liked this idea at first and then started thinking more about the steps and that we could only use our hands once, we decided to keep that in the back of our heads though. Another Idea  was to pour cheese and sauce on pasta. but again like the mac and cheese we thought it would be too hard and probably quite messy. Another was toothpaste on a toothbrush this was a good idea but we really did not want to do it because Mia’s sister used that for hers. Lastly was to put a stamp on paper we thought this was a great idea and so this was one off the very top ones on our list. This was the first step of our project.