Rube Goldberg - Lab Report

At first when we were drafting the sketch, we gathered ideas from each of us and put them together. Our first idea was devising a system that makes a coffee as a final task. That idea, however, could not be accomplished due to changes in our materials and unexpected problems during making devices. When we started to set up devices and tried to connect them together, we realized that it was really different from what we had drawn on the paper. Thus, we started going step by step by setting up the first device and then thinking about the next device that was able to connect to it. Because we did not have many spaces, we had to take advantage of any space that we could on two tables. I remembered that we could not find any chemical energy transfer, so in the end we must change our final task, which is chemical energy transfer, to make it connected to the rest of the system. Through this lab, we were able to learn that we must anticipate unexpected problems and find the way to fix them.