Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg= A machine that has many chain reactions which causes one thing to hit another and so on.

 

Our Rube Goldberg has been going really well. We have done seven steps and now all we need to do is get it to work. Brian and I were trying to get it to work for about an 1 hour and 30 minutes. Still we can’t get it to work and it’s very annoying. We have come so close two or three times. The worst part is setting it back up. Whenever I set it up I knock down all the dominoes and we have to start all over. One time it was right before the final step where it lost control and it didn’t work. That was the most annoying part.

Our Rube Goldberg was a great experience.  I learned what a Rube Goldberg machine was.  A Rube Goldberg machine is a chain of events and it has a final goal. Our Rube Goldberg machine has 12 steps. I never thought I would do a Rube Goldberg machine.  I am so happy our teacher assigned us this project.  I think you should try to make your own. It was the most fun project I ever had.  It taught me how to make things work, and also told me how to work with others for the same goal.  Just like being on a team.

Basically how it works is Brian drops a ball and it goes through a tube which pops out onto a trail where it hits dominoes which hits a ball which more dominoes which hits a ball which hits a ping-pong ball. Then the Ping-pong ball hits about 30 dominoes which then hits a ping-pong ball and it rolls into the net and scores.

 

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