Rube Goldberg Blog Post #2

Building a Rube Goldberg Machine was very fun because even though it was very challenging, stressful, and frustrating, I got to learn new things and build a really cool machine that fed my hungry dogs. I had to keep switching some parts of my design because it wasn’t working. It was challenging because I had to keep setting up the dominoes, ping pong ball, golf ball, and car. My mom helped me film the WeVideo and even though my dad and brother didn’t film me, they still stayed 4 hours downstairs with me, and inspired me to keep trying. It took me 4 hours and 48 failed attempts until I finally got it to work. I was so happy! I went right to bed because it was really late. Creating my WeVideo was fun because it didn’t take long and I got to actually put the whole video together. Although it took so many tries and it was making me crazy, I learned a lot from it. I learned to have patience and to keep on trying. The resources that I used to help me were WeVideo, “Constructing A Rube Goldberg Machine“, and “Connectionsacademy.com

Here is my final Rube Goldberg sketch:

Here is my Rube Goldberg video:

Rube Goldberg Blog Post #1

My simple task is feeding my hungry dogs. The simple machines that I used were 2 Inclined Planes, 1 Wheel and Axle, and 1 Pulley. The process of building my machine was really challenging because I used a lot of dominoes and when I was setting them up, they kept falling and knocking each other over. I also couldn’t get some things to stay put, which was another challenge. Once I finally finished building, it took me 48 attempts until the 49th try, when my Rube Goldberg machine actually worked! I have been trying to get it right for 5 hours last night! Those 5 hours were really frustrating because my machine kept failing, so I had to keep making changes and rebuilding it. The machine kept failing in the first half, when the ping pong ball was supposed to knock down some dominoes, but didn’t. I revised it by making the dominoes go in a straight line, and making a barrier so that when the ball rolled out of the tube, it would definitely hit the first domino. Overall, this Rube Goldberg project was really fun and interesting, but very challenging and frustrating.

Here is my first sketch: