**Rube Goldberg Machine**
A Rube Goldberg machine
is made to accomplish a very simple task in as many
steps as possible. You might have played the game called MouseTrap,
where
you trip the first mechanism and that leads to a series of events until
the cage
falls on the mouse.
Visit these Rube Goldberg Sites
Your project will be
to build a machine (Balloon Popper) that
you can pop a balloon in 8 steps or more. Here are some steps
you might want to incorporate into your design:
ball rolls down a ramp
trip a mousetrap
dominos fall
teter-toter device
basket on a pulley
use match box cars
swings
marbles go thru tubes
hydraulic syringes
lego devices
turn on a small motor
razor or scissors cut a string
burning candle
wheel and axel devices
live mice
floating devices
fan blows a sail boat
turn on a vaccum cleaner
pop balloon with marbles inside of it
As an added extra design
parameter
include the 6
simple machines into your design.
If you get a chance to use a program called THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE..do it!!
