Project History
On September 3, 2014, we began working on our Rube Goldberg Machine. After being told the expectations and guidelines, we drew the first sketches of our premature machine and determined the task that the machine would carry out. We decided that our machine would take a picture. We also signed the Rube Goldberg Proposal Sheet on this date. The following day, we finished our sketches and began a list of all the materials we would need to build our mechanism. After making these necessary arrangements, the group I had worked with pitched our idea to our Critical Friends, a tool used by the class to help point out possible roadblocks and to idolize our exceptional concepts. The third day of work fell on the eighth day of September, four days after the previous work time. Following the safety quiz, or in Mr. Williams terms a liability test, we acquired the 1.22 meter by 1.22 meter piece of plywood that our apparatus would be manufactured on. This was the first actual build day. Days four through eleven (September 9-25) were all spent on systematization and finalizing our contraption. Throughout this time period, the group did go through many problems, both with the machine and with each other. For example, a lot of our work time was spent on making our pulley systems. It wasn't so much the construction of them, but it was the function. But, tweaking and problem solving quickly fixed all non-productive situations. We finished our calculations and schematics on the final day of September.