rube goldberg

                                                                                                                                                Colin Bode
                                                                                                                                             




We started the project by starting a small poster to show what our future project would look like. in my first group we made a pulley system and a series or ramps, axels, and wheels. In my other group they had a wheel and axel, dominos as a lever, and a small pulley system and a  ramp.  The goal of this was to pop a balloon, which we succeeded in.After we also did a blueprint, while Damien drew the poster I weighed the balls and got a measure for everything and stated the mechanical advantages.
 The goal of our rube Goldberg was to pop the balloon which was on the floor of the phys science room. To do that we would need a system of ramps bringing a ball to the floor hitting a car with two tacvs on the front hitting the balloon and causing it to pop. We had the wheel and axel system hit the dominos and after the dominos hit each other they collided with the ball making it fall through a cup with a hole in it. The ball hit the dominos below. The dominos hit the car making It go down a ramp. The car then proceeded to hit the balloon and POP.
Damien was the real mastermind of the plan, he came up with the car with tacs attached popping the balloon. Nick did the construction, I helped near the end with the dominos and weight measurements and the mechanical advantages. That was how we did our rube Goldberg machine.