Our Rube Goldberg machine was not that simple. Well, looking at, yes but it really isn’t. It starts out with a marble rolling down a ramp witch hits a car. We did that because we saw that the marble was to small for our next step. Our next step was the car will hit some keva planks. We had the car do this because the marble would keep hitting the keva planks at the wrong angle. Those keva planks will hit another ball that would go into the didgeridoo, (pvc pipe). That ball will come out and hit a golf ball. We had it hit a golf ball because the marble kept having to much speed and Messing up the dominos. The dominos triggered a pulley. A ball fell down the hoop and hit books which hot a ball in the net.

We tested everything like 15 times and it took 88 times just for us to get the ball in once. When we accidentally knocked some dominos over we had to jump on top of it to stop it from going. We never got the ball down the hoop, the only time when we got it was when we completed the Rube Goldberg. This was a unit that was very very difficult.

My overall experience doing Rube Goldberg was, okay. It was only okay because me and Noah couldn’t agree on a lot of stuff.We were also having arguments and sometimes one of us would just like, give up because we’ve done it so many times and it just didn’t work. But when we both actually thought about something, we made a really good team.

Our biggest challenge, was probably the domino’s because we had to set them up so perfectly every time so it would work, the part of the dominos was when we had to make it turn. Only towards the end, did we start taking pictures of our trouble spots a seeing what worked and what didn’t. The one thing I learned the most was our pulley machine. Our pulley (a car) was wrapped around a string that was connected to two keva planks on each side, weighed down by 4 dominos stacked and when they got knocked down, the car would roll down the knockhocky board and it was connected to another string. When the car came down the knockhocky board the other string would pull a block down to release a ball. I never want to do this again.