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Rube Goldberg Blog Post #2

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Now that I have done my Rube Goldberg and finished everything, I feel like it was pretty easy to do. I felt that I was really stressed through out the process because I thought that I wouldn’t finish on time but I did which made me feel a lot better. Also, my design changed a lot too. I didn’t end up going with the steps I originally did, but I liked my new design better because I got my machine to work on the second try. I feel like if I used my regular Rube Goldberg design then it would take many tries to have it work. The new steps to my Rube Goldberg are 1. I let go of a baseball 2. The baseball hits a hammer 3. The hammer hits a softball that is being held up by a wedge 4. The softball hits dominoes 5. The dominoes hit a tennis ball 6. The tennis ball rolls down an inclined plane. 7. The tennis ball hits a piece of wood 8. The piece of wood hits the end of a skateboard 9. The skateboard hits dominoes 10. The dominoes hit and ring a bell. I felt like I was way more confident with the second design than the first one because I could be more successful with my second one.

I learned that even if you fail, you should always try again. You had to keep on trying and remaking your design so that it could be perfect.

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Credits:

Builder: Me

Camera Man: Me

Rube Goldberg Blog Post 1

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This is the first blog post for my Rube Goldberg project. For designing the sketch, the process was kind of hard because I put a toy car in my sketch but I don’t have a toy car. I was thinking that I could maybe replace the toy car with a golf ball because I know I have those in my house. Testing the design was hard because I couldn’t find all the parts to make my Rube Goldberg. Building it was also hard because my design kept on falling over. I think that this happened because it wasn’t stable enough so I’m planning to make it stable. The steps in my process are, 1. A toy car or a golf ball hits dominoes 2. the dominoes hit a tennis ball 3. The tennis ball falls into a pulley 4. the wiffle ball on the other side of the pulley falls out 5. The wiffle ball hits a skate board that is being held up by a wedge 6. The skate board falls down the inclined plane 7.  The skate board goes down a lever which on one side there is a block holding it up 8. The skate board hits dominoes 9. the dominoes hit a button. This might be my process but I don’t think I have enough room or the right materials, so I might just change it. I feel like changing a few things would be fine, but until then, I’m going to stick to this design.