Wave Project

Rube Goldberg Project
"Project Description
The goal of this project was to create a Rube Goldberg machine that incorporates some of the six simple machines that we studied. A Rube Goldberg machine is a device that use many steps to accomplish a simple task. The task we choose for our project to complete was making a "virgin'' martini ​using water instead of gin and vermouth.
Steps
  1. The machine is activated by the drop of a marble at the top of the rube.
  2. The marble travels through the curved tube, gradually increasing velocity, and eventually launches into the small cup at one end of our first lever.
  3. The weight of the marble at one end of the lever tips that end. When the other end rises, the vertical stick that is attached initiates the motion of the next marble on a ramp.
  4. The second marble then rolls down the ramp and hits the mouse trap.
  5. The mouse trap is set off and knocks down the domino style blocks.
  6. The dominoes continue to fall until they hit a swivel at the end of their path.
  7. The swivel rotates 180 degrees, hitting a golf ball at the top of a ramp.  
  8. The ball rolls down the ramp, landing in a cup for the second lever, causing it to tip.
  9. The other end of the lever rises and knocks off two weights, which are attached to a pulley by a string.
  10. The string continues through the pulley to the spot where it is attached to the bottle tipping system. The pull on the string, caused by the weight drop, rotates the bottles about 120 degrees, pouring the liquid out of the bottles.
  11. (Start of olive system) At the same time, a stopper is released from the top of another ramp, allowing the third marble to roll down that ramp. This is the start of our olive delivery system.
  12. The olive delivery continues to function as the third marble rolls to the end of the ramp where is falls into a cup.
  13. The cup is attached to a string and pulley, which is attached to a vertical stick. When the marble lands in the cup, it pulls the string through the pulley, rising the stick on the other side.
  14. The stick is positioned next to a ramp. When the stick rises it hits a toy car, sending it down the ramp.
  15. The toy car rolls down the ramp and knocks the olive into the martini glass
    16.    (Continuing liquid pouring system) Once the bottles are tipped, the liquid is poured into a funnel. Attached to the funnel is a tube leading to the martini glass. In the tube is ice which cools the liquid as is travels through. The liquid is poured into the glass when it reaches the end of the tube. (end of the Rube Goldberg machine).  
In the beginning of this project Gus and I choose to do our project on the subject of cars. We were motivated to pick this topic because we both have a strong interest in motorized vehicles and we wanted to know how electric, hybrid and gas vehicles differed in performance and efficiency. I struggled in the beginning of this project because my partner and I were more concerned with just discussing cars in a non productive manner. However this was resolved we decided that needed to get the work done. I believe this decision to focus is what got the project completed.  
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