When Zach decided to revise the design for the Rube Goldberg machine, he changed the design drastically to almost a fresh start. The new design is much better than our initial blueprint. The trigger is hitting a toy car with a marble going through a PVC pipe. The car drives on to knock over a cup of water. The water goes through a funnel and falls onto a cup attached to the side of a table with a string. The cup falls and triggers dominoes with a lever. The dominoes knock over a tube. The tube lands on books which are set up as dominoes as well. The books/dominoes fall in order. The final 2 books have a 10 pound weight on them. The weight falls on the unsuspecting egg. The egg cracks.

“Ready for breakfast?”

When our Rube Goldberg group just met, we first decided to decide on our design. Once we finished that, we started to build. Our initial design was to have a drone smash into a car that started a chain of dominoes of books to push a 10 pound ball away from a Nerf gun. The ball had a string tied to it and the Nerf gun trigger. The Nerf gun was taped to the floor. The Nerf gun was to shoot a domino to start a domino chain that would send a marble to tremble the chess board and that would knock over the king on the board. Over the last weekend. Zach decided to change the plan to make it much better and have more steps. Then, we changed the design.

In school, we are building Rube Goldberg machines. A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine that completes a very simple task in a very complicated way. Now where does the name “Rube Goldberg machine” come from? Well, Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist born on July 4th 1883 in San Fransisco, California. He grew up to make cartoons for many different magazines. Rube Goldberg machines were inspired by one of Goldberg’s characters from a cartoon called Professor Butts. My group for the Rube Goldberg project is Zach, Justin, and I. We first met on the Sunday after the assignment was given. We figured out the design and started drafting our Rube Goldberg machine.