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Rube Goldberg Blog Post 2

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My experience designing a Rube Goldberg machine was fun, hard, interesting, and challenging. The start of my process was drawing my sketch. For me this was the easiest part of it all because I am good at drawing so, I thought this was fun. But then I started building and things got a little bit harder. I changed a lot of this during my processes like different ramps, tubes, and many simple machines. After my 14th clip worked I was so relieved.

During my process of my Rube Goldberg project, I did not just learn how to now make the machine I also learned a lot from working on the project for a long time. Some things I learned were that even if you want to give up keep trying and you will succeed. Another thing I learned was that it’s sometimes fun to fail and you learn a lot from it. One main thing I learned is how machines work and how to can use them.

In my opinion, the video was the hardest part. I am the not best at editing so it took me a long time. I also got some help from one of my friends. I started with just putting all my clips together to get ready for when I start arranging them. When I started each clip looked the same and that was a hard part I experienced. But then when I came close to finishing I kept losing this one clip but in the end, I made it work. Also after watching my video over and over again I realized I could add some tweets that would make it better.

One main part that helped me a lot with my project was the resources I used. Some online resources I used were Youtube, Generation genus, and google. The Rube Goldberg machines video that I watched on the channel was “Joseph’s Machines” That was a main one I used.  Another thing that helped was books. It all started one day I was reading one of my favorite graphic novels (Camp) and there was this part where they were building this “machine” I thought to myself “WHAT IF IT’S A RUBE GOLDBERG!” and on the next page the words read “She did this! she ruined our RubeGoldburg machine” And it showed so many ideas I was so happy!

Overall this project was really fun and I’m looking forward to different science projects coming up because I learned a lot from this one. My hope is that future projects are as hands-on as the Rube Goldberg project. Whereas the Rube Goldberg project presented me with many design/build challenges I know that there will be aspects of future projects that will even be far more challenging. Having successfully worked through the challenges of this most recent project am fully confident that I have established a strong foundation for tackling future science projects.

This is My Sketch. hope you like it! :

This is my video. Hope you enjoy it! :

Rube Goldberg Blog Post 1

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Hi my name is Alexa and I’m starting to build my Rube Goldberg project, So far I only did a quarter of my machine and luckily it worked out pretty well!

My process so far is turning out good. I just finished my sketch, and so far when I was building it I only got rid of one thing Because I saw how it could not work. I think I might need to get rid of more things later on. Since I haven’t started my project yet I don’t have many challenges but one challenge was thinking about what I should put on my sketch and I had to think about what materials I had.  I used a lot of resources like TikTok, youtube, and google.

When I started to test out a small section of my machine I quickly learned that the dominos I’ve decided to use don’t have enough strength to push over a heavy ball so I tried lighter balls but some wouldn’t balance because of how light they are.

So far the things that have been so frustrating were dominos falling over (multiply times), Not finding the right ramps, things not balancing, and light and heavy things. Some things I had to correct making a small bit of my project was the different types of balls I used.

And I also changed some ramps. Also one of my “aha” moments was when I put dominos under a ball to balance it, and when I found out what position I should put a ramp in.

In conclusion, so far I am doing good on the Rube Goldberg project and I think I am going to be really happy when I finally succeed in this project.

 

Maglev #1

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  A maglev train is a train that levitates on magnet like south to south that should levitate. Our idea was we put magnets that looked like strips all around ends.  This did not work because the magnets were on top of each other which was a problem. 

We put too many magnets on the bottom so we changed the plan and put them on the sids.  This was a good solution and it worked. Then we wanted to make it levitate higher so we put donut magnet on top and it repelled so high after we did that.

My experience working with my group was good but we had some ups and downs. It was a little challenging because sometimes we did not agree on stuff. We all wanted to do something different when it was a final decision to pick the main idea for our maglev train.  We found a solution by joining our ideas together and that worked well for my group.