Rube Goldberg Post #1

In school, we are making a Rube Goldberg machine. A Rube Goldberg is a machine that could do a simple task for you. It includes simple machines like a wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, lever, inclined plane, and screw.

I am working with my sister Raiya (visit her blog to see her blog post). For the Rube Goldberg, I needed a lot of supplies. Some of the supplies were a tennis racket, dominoes, Jenga blocks, marbles, golf balls, Tape, cubs, Lego, building blocks, rolled-up posters, string, and much more.

Everyone needed a task for the Rube Goldberg machine to complete. We decided to make the Rube Goldberg give a treat to our dog charlie It took a long time to plan for the Rube Goldberg machine, but in the end, Raiya and I figured it out.

At first, I was really frustrated that my Rube Goldberg did not work. The golf ball never fell in the pulley, and the dominoes kept on falling when I tried to set the dominoes up.

When the Rube Goldberg finally worked I was really happy. I was confident that I could succeed, and my confidence paid off! I am also really relieved that I am finally done.

Something that was challenging was, the Rube Goldberg was not long enough. Since Raiya and I were working as a group, we had to make our Rube Goldberg twice as long. At first, that was tricky because we could not come up with any more steps. It was really difficult, but we decided that we could expand more at the beginning and the end.

Another thing that was tricky was the simple task at the end. Like I said earlier, everyone has to have a task that the Rube Goldberg completes for you. For Raiya and I, we decided to make the machine deliver a treat for charlie, my dog. That was the easy part. The hard part was what we struggled with. We did not know how to deliver the treat to charlie. Luckily my sister came up with a way that we could give him a treat. The solution was, we would make a tennis racket spin, which would knock over a cup with a treat under it.

As I said a lot before, Raiya and I worked as a group. It was hard to work with her because we had separate ideas which were both very good. I think that it was a success that we managed to work together with only a little fighting. Normally when Raiya and work as a group, we fight a lot so this was very rare.

Another success is, how we did not get too frustrated if a thing did not work or even broke. Instead, we just fixed it, or even changed it, right away.

Overall, This Rube Goldberg was an amazing project and I would definitely want to do it again if I could. I hope that everybody else enjoyed this project as much as I did. If you want to see my sketch then scroll down.

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