Rube Goldberg – Post #4

Today we started building the machine! We got through roughly half of the steps. I think that we can add more steps to make it more exciting, but on the other hand, we’re not done yet and it won’t look the same after it’s done. We changed our plan a little and added a little bit more Legos. We figured out that the ball was going off the Lego stairs and we needed to add more Legos to keep it in place. I’m very proud that we did that because if we didn’t, our ball would have had more of a chance of falling off course than when we added the Legos. We also supported the car by putting it up on Legos and we changed the plan a little by putting stairs leading up to the car. That made us put the Jenga blocks on the stairs so that they would knock down the car, so that the car would knock down the pole, e.t.c. Some thoughts I have on this is that we might need to change our machine a little more and put a little more support for the objects (probably more Legos involved in the process). I can’t wait to finish the process of building the machine so that we can look in awe at our beauty!