I have started working on my Rube Goldberg machine. I have had a few challenges so far, but also some good news.

My end goal is to knock over my father’s King in a game of chess.

The first challenge I  had was that my father destroyed my whole project because the ramp I was using was going to dent the table.

As you can imagine, this was a big challenge. Since I had to move to a new room, I decided to change a few things because I had some new ideas that I wanted to try.

My second challenge is that  I felt super stressed throughout the whole project.  I wasn’t sure how to transport energy best, and I wanted to make everything by the due date. I felt like the days leading up to the due date were going by really quickly.

A success I had was that I had a few materials that I was really good at using like Legos. But so far I haven’t found a way to include them in my project. The reason I am good at using Lego is that I have been playing with from the time I was three to now. Another success I had was that the floors in a room in my house had a design issue that made them slanted, and it was a good place to roll marbles. A third success I had was that I could use the leaf blower because it is not fall yet, so I plan to use it to direct a ping pong ball in any way I want.

I made a Lego car for my father as a Christmas gift. It had a lot of moving parts so I am trying to replicate that into my project.

So far I have had challenges and successes with my Rube Goldberg project. I am excited to continue building it.