Category: Science

Rube Goldberg Reflection #2

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Rube Goldberg,

My overall experience designing a Rube Goldberg machine was an interesting one. First, I had to reserch so I can get some ideas. After watching a couple YouTube videos, I was able to get an idea. I had to find the materials in my house for that idea. There were some challenges, but in the end, there were solutions to challenges. Then the big day came, I had built the machine and I was very surprised that after only 8 tries I got a successful run of the machine. For many people, it takes hours and hours for the machine to work. I barely even made a change. The only thing I changed was I swapped balls from step 1 to step 3. The ball in step 3 worked because the ball had a different weight. I learned that sometimes in life, a project may be easier than you think. If your sketch is good, you will get a good start. My experience making the video was a good one as well. I made everything look like my audience was looking at the machine and not the background items in my house.

My sketch

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Video Information:

Director: Winston

Filmer: Mom

Device filmed on: iPhone 13

House filmed in: 332 Heathcote Road, Scarsdale NY

Builder: Winston

Co Builder: Mom

Video Link: https://youtu.be/oPny1wnULBA

Rube Goldberg Reflection #1

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Rube Goldberg,

 

I think this project is very interesting and it took a lot of work. There was not that much research available so I have to be creative. I had to plan how this contraption would work and how it would work perfectly. The requirements for building this machine were 8 or more steps and at least 3 simple machines. The machine had to “do something simple” at the last step, like turn on a light or shoot a basketball in a hoop or something simple to do. The main resource I used was YouTube and some Rube Goldberg videos, the 19 yr old one called “Sprice – On Americas Got Talent” and the kid Noah’s example and the kid Matthew’s example. These helped me get an idea. My idea was to turn on a fan at the end. The process was a lever with a ball that hits Janga blocks, which will hit a tennis ball down an inclined plane, the ball will hit the pot, the pot will hit some Diary Of Wimpy Kid Books, Those books will hit Thomas The Train, That train will hit some Minecraft books and the Minecraft books will press the button on the surge protector and that will turn on the fan. I had to think about what I had in my home to do this. It was frustrating when I did not have a surge protector with a good button. Then I solved the issue by using one with a good button. I also had to find some inclined planes so I solved that issue by using some Pringles Chip cans. I was planning to use the Tennis ball at the first step but it had to be moved to step 3 and the softball on step 3 will move to step 1 for greater force. After many tries, it worked and that was that big “Aha” moment. It made shorter times than I thought it would take, which was 100 times.