Hi I am making a Rube Goldberg Machine. If you do not know what that is, it is a machine that has a simple highplex and other aspects to it to do a simple task such as putting ice into a cup. My personal simple task is to turn on a lamp. Although it may sound all fun it games it could be hard because you need at least 8 steps. Its fun and all but it can be hard.Overall I am very excited for the project. 

One website that I found useful is YouTube because I was able to look at other simple machines from the past in different scales which helped me a lot to come up with my idea. Another resource that helped me were different crafts stores or maybe your local home depot. These places were really helpful to me so far because they have many different things that you may need like cardboard, Styrofoam strings, PVC pipes and more. Also if you ever heard of PBS then you may know this but PBS had a great feature where they tell you to pick some materials that they feature and if you have them then you can pick them and they show you all the cool stuff you can make with them which I don’t know about you but I thought I would be really help full and like I thought it was. I know that I named a lot of resources but if you do not have access to these places/websites then no worry because something helpful you could do is simply look around your house. I personally found many things like toy cars I could use, Styrofoam, a bit of cardboard, and more. Overall these were the different useful things I used to gather research and materials for the project.

Many people think this part might be easy and fun but although it may be fun at some times it could be very hard. In this project we had to have at least 8 steps that are different 

(a step is a transfer of energy). And at least 3 simple machines. Some of  different simple machines are things like levers, pulleys inclined planes, wheel and axles, and finally the  screw. If you ever ya this I suggest do not stretch anything that looks really cool but hard to set up. For example if your sketch has 50 domino’s you have to set them up every time and you may have 100 attempts and after that one success which will be very annoying after a while. Also you don’t want to put something in your build that will be hard to build. For example if you just have just a lot of card board and you want to make a strong pole it may not be the east because of the lack of strength cardboard has.

Although I do think it may be a little challenging which after I did some attempts it was challenging, still I am not going to let that stop me at all. Over I am looking forward to seeing how this project is going to come out.