Tag: Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg #6

Tomorrow Sam and I are presenting our final video. Since our video is done I am pretty much done with the project besides clicking a button to start the video. My least favorite part was making the video and of curse when our project worked. My least favorite part was using dominoes and every time our machine failed.

My advice to someone who is just starting this project is to work with someone that you can handle. I mean Sam and I worked well together because we could handle each other. At times I was at his house for four hours. Believe me you don’t want to be at someones house for hours and hours if you don’t like them. My sister kept on telling me she hated this project and it was so hard. But really it was a really fun project for me. If you are starting this project go in with a positive mind set. DON’T DO WHAT I DID!

Rube Goldberg #5

Once we finished our Rube Goldberg Machine I volunteered to make the video because Sam already did so much work with our planning board so I thought it would make us have an even amount of work. I love working with Wevideo! At times it was very stressful but I got through it just like how Sam and I got through our project. All in all I did not add everything that we used and tried to focus the video mainly on our end product.

Today we had a two hour delay so this whole morning I worked on our video. See the video for yourself. Click on the link Provided! Please Like and Comment

Rube Goldberg #4

At 5:30 PM I went over to Sams house. At 9:30 Pm I left Sams house. In four hours and 14 tries Sam and I finished our Rube Goldberg!

I would say everything seemed to not be going our way. The electric motorcycle we used just had to loose it’s battery the one time our thing actually worked! You know how frustrating that is? News flash, Very! Also it was so weird that the BB-8 was moving and nothing transferred the energy to it. It was like there was a ghost in the room? I mean can someone explain what happened!

But finally our Rube Goldberg worked! See for your self in the link below.

https://www.wevideo.com/view/1321540630

Rube Goldberg #3

Skeusch26 and I met again. I think this time went 100 times better than the last. We got a ton of work done! I think the reason for this is the fact that we did not get distracted. We worked the whole time I was at his house and we even worked when I left his house over the phone. I was a bit scared after our first meet up but now I know we can get this project done.

What we did was three things. Number one we tested, number two we revised, and lastly number three we filmed. Unlike last time when we tested our tests they actually worked! For example one test we did was pushing a car down a tube and hitting dominos at the bottom of it. After we tested we revised, which means we made our Rube Goldberg Machine better after we saw what the tests did. For example of this is that we had to revise our plan and shift the dominos so the car would perfectly hit them. Of course though we filmed the whole process so when we make a video on our Rube Goldberg Machine we can add our fails and successes.

Rube Goldberg #2

http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/Skeusch26 and I met for the first time on Wednesday, I went to his house right after school. The first thing we did was gather materials we gathered everything we thought might be useful. For example Skateboards  and Dominoes. Next we just experimented we tested building blocks and a marble. We actually created a catapult by tapeing a triangle building block to a rectangle building block, and dropping a football on one side that sends a marble up.

I feel that Skeush26 and I worked okay together the first time we met. I just felt so free, like their was no boundaries. What I mean by this is that the possibilities were endless we could do anything and it was so hard to choose what to do! I hope it will be easier next wendnesday.

Rube Goldberg #1

My whole grade is doing the Rube Goldberg project in school. The Rube Goldberg project is when you complete a simple task in a really complicated way. For example turning on a light switch or opening an umbrella… Rube Goldberg was an inventor who did wacky things like, completing a simple task in a really complicated way.

If you still don’t understand than watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rozV07bwebE

Or you can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemItSAT9Ew

Or check out http://www.rube-goldberg.com/

I Decided to my Rube Goldberg project with a partner. I did this because I felt that if I did it alone my parents would of ended up helping out. Then it would not be my project it would be my parents project! I Decided to work with http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/Skeusch26/ We plan to meet every wednesday after school. I chose http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/Skeusch26/ to be my partner because I never really work with him, and because I know we would each be doing an equal amount of work.