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My partners and I's Rube Goldberg was supposed to put ketchup on hashbrowns but we changed that the day before, it then pushed fritos into dip, or dip a chip. our rube goldberg had 11 steps and lasted about 8-10 seconds It would start with a marble and go down 4 pvc pipes and then drop into a pulley. The pulley raised a wire and hit a ping pong ball. The ping pong ball went down a ramp then dropped into a pipe then went on another ramp. The ping pong ball hit a nut, the nut dropped on a board and hit a truck. The truck pushed the chips into dip.
1. What hands on skills did you learn through working in your group? (construction, problem solving, collaboration, design, time management, etc...)
2. What steps were most challenging to make work? (How did you troubleshoot or redesign)
When the marble comes out of a pipe and down a ramp, the ramp sometimes did not catch the marble and the marble went flying. Or sometimes the ramp did not push the marble into the tube. We got that to work by adding more wood and other pieces to old that place structurally strong
3. Personally what was your biggest contribution to the project?
Equations and the math. Me and one of my teammates did lots of the equations and math, i mostly did the math but they helped me a lot also. I thank them for joining me and helping me get a bit of the load of my back, because before I did all of the math and equations while the other one built, or sat and waited for me.
These are my Rube Goldberg videos
My partners and I's Rube Goldberg was supposed to put ketchup on hashbrowns but we changed that the day before, it then pushed fritos into dip, or dip a chip. our rube goldberg had 11 steps and lasted about 8-10 seconds It would start with a marble and go down 4 pvc pipes and then drop into a pulley. The pulley raised a wire and hit a ping pong ball. The ping pong ball went down a ramp then dropped into a pipe then went on another ramp. The ping pong ball hit a nut, the nut dropped on a board and hit a truck. The truck pushed the chips into dip.
1. What hands on skills did you learn through working in your group? (construction, problem solving, collaboration, design, time management, etc...)
- Collaboration, one of my teammates would sometimes get us off track or we would argue about what to do.
- team building, one of my teammates and I did not get along so well in the beginning.
2. What steps were most challenging to make work? (How did you troubleshoot or redesign)
When the marble comes out of a pipe and down a ramp, the ramp sometimes did not catch the marble and the marble went flying. Or sometimes the ramp did not push the marble into the tube. We got that to work by adding more wood and other pieces to old that place structurally strong
3. Personally what was your biggest contribution to the project?
Equations and the math. Me and one of my teammates did lots of the equations and math, i mostly did the math but they helped me a lot also. I thank them for joining me and helping me get a bit of the load of my back, because before I did all of the math and equations while the other one built, or sat and waited for me.
These are my Rube Goldberg videos