Rube Goldberg Blog Post

 

The project Rube Goldberg was assigned to our class. The project was to make a very complex machine do a very simple objective. We needed to build and document our progress. We got assigned this on January 29 and we are going to finish it on March 8tI intended to build to the most complex machine possible.

We were going to build the machine in our house. We had to do a sketch that would act as my blueprint. I found that it was hard to make the sketch. I found it hard because making a drawing of a machine that works is hard. My final sketch included pulleys, inclined planes, and levers. On Tuesday, the eighth of February, I finished my sketch. I took it home every day and worked on it. As I said you would make a very complex machine to do a very simple task. The simple task I wanted to do was turn off a light. One day I was thinking about my rube Goldberg. I was really stressed, I needed to come up with my task, soon. I went to bed thinking about what I should do. I was tired of thinking about it so I got my book and turned on my lamp. “Wait.”I can turn off the light for my rube Goldberg. That was how I got my idea to turn off a lamp. The name of my project is Operation Lampita. I set off all these chain reactions that would make something fall into a basket turning off my lamp. I am really excited to start working on building my Rube Goldberg.

 

I researched the Rube Goldberg, a lot. I planned to turn on a light. I watched videos on previous attempts made by other people trying to complete their rube, Goldberg. We watched videos from other classes. I found out that a good and strong material to use is toilet paper rolls marbles and racecar tracks. My brother already did the Rube Goldberg project 5 years ago and helped me research it. He suggested that dominos are a really good material to use, but books look better to use. He showed me the video he did and gave me some great tips. Make sure your rube Goldberg setup is perfect before you start each run. He said you want to have the least amount of fail possible. He made that mistake. He ended in 58 runs. I plan to do it in below 25.

The project Rube Goldberg is going to be very complicated but I think I will be able to do it and I am really excited to finish building it.