Rube Goldberg

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For my project, I did a basic rube Goldberg machine with a sort of industrial/urban feel. My goal was to make a machine that felt like it belonged in an urban environment. I was inspired a bit by the steampunk genre with this creation. As a result, I mostly used wood, stone, and metal for the textures. The machine starts out with a series of windmills with this wooden beam being pulled up. This spins the windmills and throws metal balls everywhere. One of the balls will hit a series of stone dominos. I chose stone because I got reminded of Stonehenge a bit when I was thinking of this game. Eventually the dominos hit another metal ball which goes down a series of wooden ramps. At the end, it hits this black block which is supposed to represent a black trampoline mat. The ball bounces between these trampolines then hits some more dominos. These dominos hit another ball which rolls down a ramp. At the end of the ramp, there is a hinge that gets knocked over and triggers a series of dominos to write out “Hi :)”. At the end, the dominos hit another hinge and put a ball into a wooden basket for the finale. I put this message in this creation because I thought it would be cool to show a message to the person watching. I was inspired by some of the videos on YouTube where they write words with dominos. Overall, I hope you like my project!