March 11

Rube Goldberg- Post 2

Overall, the Rube Goldberg project was really exciting. I had a lot of fun doing this project, I had to be very creative and confident in what I was doing. The hardest part of the Rube Goldberg project was finding materials to make the machine. The sizes were never correct so I kept having to change things. Another hard thing was that my machine worked a bunch of times and I didn’t get it on video.  The easiest part was putting the WeVideo together.

I learned that sometimes you will face challenges but you have to use or face them to move forward. I learned this because I had lots of fails. So many things had gone wrong. I ended up having over 80 fails! I had so many fails I lost count at one point. The number got way too high.

My experience making the video was interesting. It was a lot easier than I had expected. I thought it was going to be super hard. It only took me two or three days to make and after that, I kept on editing it. At one point it got deleted and I had to restart it. But it is better now than it was before. My video ended up being a total of three minutes and 28 seconds.

This is my sketch:

Here is my video:

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February 17

Rube Goldberg-Blog Post 1

The process of my Rube Goldberg machine was very hard. The hardest part was actually building the machine. It took at least 10 tries just to get one step right.

I had lots of challenges and troubles. One problem was that I could not find the right sizes of materials I needed. It was very hard to find things that are the right size and shape. Another problem was that my machine started with dominoes so if one fell over then the entire machine would start and I wouldn’t be able to get it on video.

Some of the materials I used were marbles, cars, blocks, dominoes, and car tracks.

After I tried out my sketch it did not work. My final machine looked very different than I had planned. Something that was originally in my sketch but I did not use in my machine was a water balloon. Something in my sketch that I did use in my machine was dominoes.

Overall the hardest part was building the machine. My final machine took 81 tries. So far I had lots of fun with my Rube Goldberg project.

This is my sketch:

 

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