Eugene

This is going better than I thought the whole thing starts by there is a string attached to the celing and a golf ball taped to the end of the string and someone has to swing the golf ball and hit the marble witch then the marble will roll down a pice of PVC pipe and hit a spring then the spring tips a book over and then the book crushes an egg. Die eggs(:!

Tyler and Connor

Wednesday we shot off the project after doing some adjustments now its much more accurate.

Thursday we spent the day working on the catapult and came up with some new ideas that I think are gonna work well. The main problem we have is placement it takes time to set up and multiply shots to be preped and ready.

Not to mention the fact that that ruler smacked me in the face on the first test. 

Louden, Zach, and Jacob

This week we have accomplished very much. We are so close to being don, and we have very little time left. All we need to do is make three more parts, and then the final spectacle. If we work hard, and with a bit of luck, we could pull this off in time. All we need to do is raise something by making a stand for it, then we need to make a little path for something to follow, then we need Zach to make a carnival style board with nails poking out for marbles to fall down. And after this, the only thing we need to do is make the final spectacle.

K,A,J, + R Blog Post (4)

MAY

31

We have only a couple sessions left, and our project is nearing completion. We only have a few major issues to resolve next week.

The beginning of our machine

Josh and Robby's Mechanism 

Jared and Ian Rube Goldberg

 

We made a few more machines to our project and we came up with and ending to it.

We had a hard time getting the final part to hit the ending finale, it took roughly 10 tries to get it to work.

Next week we're gonna make little tweaks to our Rube Goldberg machine so it's close to perfection

Gracie, Loralee, Megan

MAY

30

Today we finally made some progress! We had all of our group here, so it was easier. Last week we got a PVC pipe filled with sand from mr. Alard. We are going to build a ramp out of wood for it to role down. (In the pic it's a mouse trap box, but we aren't using that). The PVC pipe will down the ramp and hit the cups that will cause the ball to roll down the tube and turn on the music. We have already made a plan about what we are going to do for more machines, we just have to put it together. I think the only trouble we are having is time. We don't have a lot of time left, and our machine has to work PERFECT. Hopefully the next time we work on our machines, I will have the ramp, and we can construct the other machines.

Corie & Amanda

Working on part 4...