During the break my partner (Andre) and I built our machine. The experience was very fun, but there were a lot of times that frustrated us. The thing that was the most annoying was when we reached our final step and the thumbtack taped to the meat cleaver would fall and bounce right off of the balloon without even puncturing it. Something else that was annoying was when the whole course was set up and we started but the marble wasn’t on the track. In all the machine took five hours to build. It also took around 30 attempts until it finally popped the balloon. Once we ran through the course many times we decided that some changes would have to be made. One change that we made was that we used a meat cleaver instead of a hammer. We made this change because the hammer was to heavy to stand up on their own because the weight was uneven. If I had to chose the fun but the most challenging part of this project it would definitely be this part. The best part of all was when I heard the pop of the balloon.
This is a movie my partner and I made about the project.