This Rube Goldberg machine was made by Xavier and Bailey to complete a school task. It had to include at least as many simple machines as group members and steps, fit in a cardboard box, and perform an action. Their initial design was too simple so they redesigned it. It starts with a toy car rolling down a ramp to hit a lever pulling a matchbox car to hit a pencil releasing a pullback car. This hits a lever flipping dominos up stairs turning on a fan when the last domino hits a weight attached to the fan dial. Despite challenges, their machine was the only one that moved energy uphill, and they were pleased with their problem-solving and final design.

1. RUBE GOLDBERG
MACHINE
Made by Reuben Owen
Xavier and Bailey
The cooler

2. THE TASK
The task was that we had to make an Rube Goldberg
Machine the conditions were that our machine must be
planed, our machine must do something, plans must be
detailed as possible including annotations and
measurements, our machine must be in the space of one
cardboard box, our rube Goldberg machine must have the
amount of elements equal to or more than the amount of
people in the group and our rube Goldberg machine must
have the amount of simple machines equal to or more
than the people in people in the group.

3. THE DESIGN AND PLANNING
When we were planning our machine we thought about the conditions and
we had a small problem with the simplicity of our design soon after a few
drawings we finally wrote an finished design.

4. THE
START
Our rube Goldberg machine
starts with a toy car rolling
down a large incline plane
hitting a lever but we were
originally going to use a
bowling ball but we were not
able to make our support
strong enough to hold the
weight of the bowling ball.

5. THE PULLBACK CAR AND
VOLVO
This part of the machine involves a pull
back car and a smaller matchbox car it
works like this the large toy car hits the
lever that triggers a small matchbox car to
hit a pencil that is stopping a pull back car
from moving the pencil is used as a lever
causing the car to move forward and hit a
lever.

6. THE PINBALL MACHINE
The pinball machine was originally going to be a thing that has multiple balls and a few
holes in the ground and each ball would fall into a hole an the balls behind it would roll
over the ball in front of it. But this was to hard to build and had no simple machines so we
swiched to a pinball machine witch was simpler to make.

7. THE STAIRWAY TO
COOLING
This part of the machine has dominos
going up some wooden stairs that bailey
made Xavier had a go at making some but
his measurements were 10 centimeters
short of the measurements required. It was
hard to think of a way to get energy going
uphill. We decided that dominos would be
the most efficient way of getting energy
going uphill.
(these dominos are close to impossible to
set up.)

8. THE FAN
This part of the machine turns
on the fan. The dominos hit a
car held in place with masking
tape the car hits a 50 gram
weight that is connected to a
short plastic stick taped to the
fan dial so it turns when the car
hits it.

9. EVALUATION
I think that my group has worked well through all the problems tat we
have faced and have achieved and learnt many things. My group was
the only group that managed to move energy up hill. I am very happy
with my rube Goldberg machine and the way we solved our problems.

10. FILM