Rube Goldberg Machine
For this project, we built a Rube Goldberg Machine. For those of you who do not know what a Rube Goldberg Machine is, it is a large machine that purposely takes many steps to accomplish a simple goal. Take our machine for example, we have a marble roll down an inclined plane which then falls into a cup attached to two pulleys with another cup on the other side of the pulleys. When the ball falls into the first cup, the second cup raises as the first one falls. The second cup then hits the end of a lever which has a marble on top. The marble rolls down the lever into a pipe, at the end of the pipe, the marble hits a foosball. That foosball falls onto another lever, which then rolls a different foosball down it. That second foosball then falls into a cup attached to a wheel and axle. That wheel and axle then hits a third lever with a metal marble on top. That marble then rolls down the lever into another tube, at the end of the tube the marble hits a domino. That domino hits another domino which starts a chain reaction of dominoes, the last domino hits a cup filled with paint, the paint then falls over to hit the canvas, creating art. That is the kind of crazy amount of steps it takes to make a machine be considered as a Rube Goldberg Machine. You can see a full video of the machine in action below.