The experience I had when creating, designing, and filming for my Rube Goldberg project was crazy. Some flaws and design flukes were bad enough to have to change my whole machine! My concept was a complete mess up, so I had to create a whole different contraption.
Designing my machine was hard. I had to have 4 simple machines included and also had to have 8 steps to complete the task. This was challenging as I did not know if the ball going down the track was a step. I decided against that. When I started building, I realized my pulley would and could not work. When I had to start filming, I had to rush to come up with a new design. My old would not work. I decided that it would start on a shelf, and go down with inclined planes. This would then end at the door. I barely kept any of my original design features. This showed me that the building will not always be built exactly.
During this experience I learned how to build ramps and supports and things like how to attach wood to a can. Though this was fun, filming was not as fun. My marble kept on falling down into a crack where no one could reach, and I got my first success too early. This caused me to barely get any footage.
In conclusion, this project was time consuming and overall very difficult. This process took two months to complete. Between designing and filming, this project was challenging and made me think a lot.
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