Rube Goldberg #5

Now that we started working on our sides Giselle thought that we should make a ramp going up to the claw machine and have something hit it to go in. Then she worked from the tube to the end. We thought to both use books to go to our sides. So she had books curve her side and have a big tube thing roll into a light basketball that would hit the coin that would turn the claw machine on. It looked reasonable so we thought it was good. Meanwhile, on my side i kept the books going straight and stopped it right before it went into the bathroom then i attached the string to the last book and taped a little tube like thing to the roof and attached it to the faucet so when the book fell down it would pull the faucet up and turn it on. Then we tried our endings a few times Giselle said she thought her side was good and when I tried my side nothing happened but at least it didn’t fall down like all the other times. We decided to look on the web for turning on a faucet and there was this really inspiring video which is to have a bucket on a book and the books will knock that down and the bucket which is heavy will turn the faucet on. So we tried that and it still didn’t work by now we were frustrated. Then we just set our minds of the faucet idea and went to the claw. We tried it but the book just didn’t give the little basketball enough force to go up to the ramp. We were really annoyed because we had no ending. I hope we will think of a ending idea soon.

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