Hi, today I am going to introduce you to my final project of my Rube Goldberg Machine. This project has taken me over 5 weeks which was pretty hard. First I had to make a sketch for my project, then I had to run to the different stores to find good materials, and then build my project, and then finally record myself with a successful run-through of my machine.

Building my final machine was one of the most difficult parts of this project. One big challenge that I faced was stuff not going together. For example, when I was building the pulley that was one of the hardest things to build because of one big reason, Stuff would not go together. What I mean by that is that I did not buy any of the items pre-built so I had to make the pulley. I had to get wood from a place like Home Depot and then drill the wood together but when I was drilling the wood together we would have problems with it. The main reason why we would have a problem with this was that we would have to be so precise because for example if you drill a hole in the wood to put the two pieces of wood together and it is not lined up it will be really hard to get what you are trying to do done which made time difficult. Overall I thought that the pulley was the most challenging part. In my opinion, I found that the lever at the start of my machine was easier than I thought. When I was first building the machine I thought that I would have to build my own custom lever because I did not think to look around my house but luckily when I was walking to the store to buy my own custom lever I found a big box that worked as a lever which made things really easy to make the lever and after I found the lever it made me think before I would buy every thing to look around my house. After everything was built I had to get a successful attempt which was also really hard compared to the other things. It took me 22 attempts in order to get a clear video of my Rube Goldberg Machine working. Even though that sounds like a lot in time, that is about one hour and a half.

When I made my sketch I thought it was really good so I decided that it would not be changed too much. Although I say that that does not mean I did not make any changes. One huge change I made was how everything was lined up. For example in my sketch, everything was in a line just going forward but instead, I made it so it would make a line before going sideways, and then after going sideways it would go forward. The reason why I made this change was that if everything was straight then first of all I would not have the room for this but mostly because the pulley would be really hard because if everything was in a line if you think about it the pulley would not work which was a big part of my machine. As the screw at the start would be challenging too so overall I made the decision for not everything to be straight.

When I was making the video I thought it was pretty fun but still challenging. In my video, I put in a number of things to explain which a Rube Goldberg machine is: my sketch, Me building it, and me explaining my project, me showing two of my failed attempts, and my successful video. I thought all of this would make a lot of sense in that order because it builds a nice build-up. For example, I start from scratch when I explain what I am making, and then over time I start showing my “blueprint” and then I show myself building it, and so on. Over I incorporated all of those things so I could have a build-up which in my opinion was kind of the theme of the video that I made.

Overall from building my machine to making the video I thought that this project was a very exciting project with lots of parts with challenges such as when building things not going together or not getting a successful attempt. This project was fun and taghut how to face challenges and I really like it.