So far me and Matthew have built 2 of the steps. One of the steps we’ve built is the ozobot step. The ozobot is a little robot that you can control with different colors. For example, a black line would program the ozobot to go strait. The way me and and Matthew got the step to work is because we found out a very helpful thing. If there is something in front of the ozobot the ozobot will sense it and stop before it. Then it will turn around and go the other way. All we have to do is put a domino in front and behind the ozobot. In the actual Rube Goldberg a string will pull the front domino away and the ozobot will go. Here is the video we took of the step:
Another step we’ve built is a lot simpler. All we had to do to complete it was tape lincoln logs onto a cornhall target. When we were taping them on we made sure to alternate between where they were facing. It looks like something like this:
We are going to make one of those ramps flat and then put a pool ball at the edge of it so when we drop the ping pong ball it will go down the ramps and then barely hit the pool ball off the Lincoln log
. Then the pool ball will roll down the rest of the Lincoln Logs then start the next step. Here is the video of this step.
We won’t actually drop the ping pong ball in the real Rube Goldberg. In the real Rube Goldberg there will be a block in front of the ball which will get pulled away sending the ball down the maze of ramps.
So far our Rube Goldberg has been going great and we’re making very good progress. In a few weeks you can read my blog posts which explain how we finished building our Rube Goldberg and how it worked.
I love how you included the videos and explained what they were for and how they worked.