Hi friends,

Building my Rube Goldberg machine was the most stressful time I have ever experienced. I waited until last minute, which was a mistake, because I thought it would be an easy and a fun task.  I was wrong!

First, I had to come up with the steps. This is where my mind first went BLANK.  So I thought, what if I collect items around the house that could be used in a Rube Goldberg Machine, like spheres or anything that could be made into a ramp. I was happy I found my grandparent’s dominoes and some wood planks that I had left over from a project that I did a while back.

I still couldn’t think of any steps so I thought, let’s just lay down some dominoes and it should spark some ideas.

I was right! After the first step, the rest just followed much easier. I tried each step separately and didn’t continue until it worked that way I didn’t have to build the whole thing and then find out at the end that it didn’t work.

Even though this was a very stressful project, I had fun doing it.

Legos seem like the perfect tools for building architecture models, right? They are fun to play with and can be used in creating miniature models of almost anything you can think off. However, they aren’t really used as much by architects to create models of their designs for presentations before the building starts. That’s because, even though they come in different shapes and sizes, they isn’t still enough variety for architects to use in building models. Modern architecture comes in all shapes and sizes and legos just aren’t flexible enough to be useful.  However, they are a lot of fun for kids, like me, who love architecture and can build models of existing buildings. Hopefully, in the future, lego will come out with other pieces that will allow architects to be creative.