Month: February 2019

Sketch Museum – Rube Goldberg

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Today, we did a museum in our class for each of our sketches and we got to comment on each others and it was really fun to see other peoples ideas and their plans. Also, it was a cool experience because we might’ve seen a unique step or idea that was good that we could’ve used, and boy did I see a lot of cool things! For example, one of my classmates ideas was to have something to click the spacebar of a computer to call his phone, which would vibrate down an inclined plane, which I thought was a really cool idea. Props to them! Continue reading Sketch Museum – Rube Goldberg

Collaboration – Rube Goldberg

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So far, everything is going well. Me and my partner have our sketches ready to go, and are doing good on our blog posts, but we still haven’t met to decide on what materials we need for our machine. It’s been kind of challenging cooperating with my partner because we always end up getting into small fights because one or another isn’t working, and we always end up fooling around instead of working, so I think me and my partner should work on collaborating with each other as a partnership.  Another challenge  I face is, once we start building the whole machine, is my plan going to work, or will it just flunk. Continue reading Collaboration – Rube Goldberg

Planning – Rube Goldberg

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In my Grade, we get to make our own Rube Goldberg Machines. So far, it’s really hard thinking about my machine because it’s hard to decide on how to make each individual step because you have to find all the materials that you need, and you have to make your own sketch on how you want your machine to be and look like, and it gets harder because once you test your machine to see if it works, it might not work, and you would have to re-design your contraption so once you test it again, it’ll have to be able to function with the other simple machines and contraptions in your whole Rube Goldberg. Continue reading Planning – Rube Goldberg