Today was D-day for our Rube Goldberg Machine. The Machine had to involve each of the following motions to turn a ringing alarm clock off.
- Oscillation, (1 full oscillation)
- Sliding,
- Rotation
- Rolling,
- Free fall
Each of the above mentioned motions can only happen once. And the whole cycle has to take a min of 20 seconds.
Our Goldberg Machine was hence created based on the restricted laws.
Goldberg Machine (built by: Christopher Ho Tjah Tjin, Eugene Lee Eu-Juin and Bernard Leong Tat Meng) towering with haughtiness!
During the actual evaluation run, the odds had to happen. We were eventually penalized 2 marks for having failed to perform the Oscillation motion successfully. Pleading, persuading and convincing proved to be useless in entitling us to pocket that petty 2 marks.
Witness our successful test run video clip:
We had to succumb to disappointment and cede failure as lady luck had to be absent when we needed her the most.
We finally got a performance score of 16 (out of a max of 18). Me being a perfectionist couldn't find it justifiable on why achieving the max score was a far reach.
No matter, we will not let this deter us from continuing to strive for the best. We shall move on, and push through all the upcoming challenges with all our might! We will climb to the peak of every mountain and sail to the deepest of every sea.
I sought pride in our team of 3, being united, strong, positive, determined and contributing. Chris and Bernard, GOOD JOB GUYS!
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Hey!
Rube Goldberg machine is so ORSOM. I have always wanted to do that, but I lacked the resources, time and space to do it.
So I settled with domino-s. You know, arranging eraser. (I know, this sounds so sad)
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