Rube Goldberg Blog post 2

Rube Goldberg

The Rube Goldberg has been really hard but I was able to prevail. A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine used to do a simple task. I used marbles Keva planks, ramps, couscous boxes, and funnels. I started to take videos of all my attempts and put them all into a Wevideo.

To be able to start building my Rube Goldberg I would need a simple task to complete at the end. To be honest I had no idea what I should do for my task. I was lying in my bed one night when I turned on my light. “Wait,” a light went on in the lamp and above my head. I realized I could just turn on a lamp. I started to make a sketch for my rube Goldberg. I started to build. I do not think I would have been able to build my Rube Goldberg if it was not without my brother Griffin. Griffin helped me build and record. I found so many resources for my Rube Goldberg from the teacher page. I found setting up the dominos definitely the hardest because you need to be very delicate with them.

My starting sketch was really different from the last sketch. I changed almost everything. For instance, I did not use a water bottle to push books into the basket turning on my lamp. Instead, I had a marble go down a ramp and go into a cup that turns on my lamp. I had a lot of quality of life changes, such as making the tunnel longer and the domino line shorter(I spent like 30 minutes setting up the dominos).

I thought the video was easy to do, but collecting all the footage was the hard part. I really enjoy editing and creating videos. Let’s just say I was not that organized with my footage. It was like finding a needle in a haystack. I sometimes had to re-record some of my attempts because I filed them in portrait mode instead of landscape. I spent around a week collecting all my footage. Once I finally had all of my footage I started to slap together and edit my footage. I bleeped out loud noises in the background I added music and might have deleted my we video accidentally… TWICE!!! I accidentally pressed backspace. I wanted my video to be light-hearted and funny. Most importantly I wanted to make my voice sound clear. Whenever I would record a video of me talking about my Rube Goldberg sometimes I would have to re-record it because my voice did not sound clear. The video was really fun to do.

Overall the Rube Goldberg was a really fun project This project stood out from a lot of the other projects that I have done in recent years. The reason it stuck out is that it made me think differently. I usually think of a solution and go with that. Now I realized that I would need to find another solution and look at my rube Goldberg from a different perspective. After reading my conclusion I hope that when you think of a Rube Goldberg you will think of a light bulb turning on in my Rube Goldberg and in real life.

Actual Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg Blog Post 1

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.

Maglev Video

Testing electromagnets

Yesterday our science team tinkered around with wires. We studied how we wrapped the wire around the bolt and saw if their was a difference in strength. At first I thought their would not be a difference in strength. But when I found out that the more wire flowing through the bolt is creating more energy! I new that the electromagnet would pick up more paperclips. The difference from a temporary magnet you can,t cut the flow of energy an electromagnet you can.

Do all magnets have north and south?

Electromagnet

Together with my science group. We tried to make an Electromagnet. We used a bolt, battery, battery holder, paperclip and an insulated wire. The first step was we had to wrap the wire on the bolt. We had to be careful to not make the wire overlap. We also can’t put the insulated wire on the bolt. Step two now we half to put the the battery in the battery holder. Step three now we half to put the insulated wire in the little slits on the side of the battery holder. Then the bolt should be connected to the battery holder. Step four now your energy is flowing through your wire and onto the bolt then you put paperclip on the floor and put the bolt near the paperclip and that should work.

Magnets

Magnets are just force that attract and detract. There are two sides of a magnet North and South.These matter because it makes it easier to separate witch would attract to each other. What I learned today is that magnets have a lot of energy to give more energy to any piece of metal. This works because the magnets are giving of energy witch is making metal attracts.