Success! Success! It worked! Our machine worked! I don’t know exactly, but I think it took about 15-20 tries. To make up for our first step, we added a mousetrap at the end. The golf ball falls into a cup that not only hits the books, but also lifts up another cup that triggers the mousetrap. It was so stressful. There was always something to fix. Either the mousetrap didn’t go off or the books didn’t fall, there was always something. I am very happy to be done, though. I actually shouldn’t say that we are done, considering we still … Continue reading Rube Goldberg – Post #5

Tyler and I are halfway done. This is what we have so far: Basically, a Nerf gun shoots a Nerf bullet which hits some dominoes that push a small, clay ball which goes into a pipe and falls into a cup which pulls up a peg that was stopping a toy truck so the toy truck hits a golf ball which goes down a ramp. How many reactions was that? So far we have been pretty productive. We have only built for like 2 and a half hours and we are already halfway done. We plan to finish building Wednesday, … Continue reading Rube Goldberg – Post #4

New plan. Tyler and I tested the Nerf gun idea and it didn’t work. We also realized how stupid our first sketch was and how hard it would be to build. So, instead of having one step on a pegboard, the whole machine will. This is our new sketch: When we were making the new sketch, we used this video to help us. It will be much easier to build the machine now that it will be on a pegboard because we will be able to build it up and down. As for the actual pegboard, Tyler has one. As … Continue reading Rube Goldberg – Post #3

Everything is coming along well. Tyler and I finished the sketch via FaceTime last night. I think the way we will start the machine is cool, but it is unclear if it will work or not because we haven’t tested it yet. The plan is to tie one end of a piece of string too a Nerf bullet and tie the other to a toy car so when we shoot the Nerf gun, it pulls the toy car. Although it would be very cool if it worked, I don’t think it will. One way I think I could make it … Continue reading Rube Goldberg – Post #2

Rube Goldberg seems very cool. I think it would be very hard to work alone, though. Tyler and I are having trouble even coming up with a sketch, so there’s no way I would be able to do this project alone. For some reason it is very hard to think of steps because whenever we thought of something we could test, we would and most of the things we tested didn’t work. We have about five reactions planned so far. For our simple task we were thinking of hitting one of those Staples buttons that says, “That was easy!” I have … Continue reading Rube Goldberg – Post #1