{"id":1019,"date":"2011-12-14T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collab.scrapyardchallenge.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2011-12-18T22:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:44:59","slug":"team-project-rube-goldberg-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.collab.scrapyardchallenge.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"(Final) Team Project: Rube Goldberg Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTeam:<\/strong>
\nLawrence Baker
\nDevon Dill
\nMarisela Riveros<\/p>\n

Input switch #1:<\/strong>
\nRound metal covers
\nHigh gage wire <\/p>\n

Body: <\/strong>
\nHP Printer
\nGuitar Hero whammy bar
\nFretboard
\nInternet router antenna<\/p>\n

Input switch #2: <\/strong>
\nHigh gage wire
\nInternet router antenna
\nRound metal covers<\/p>\n

Ramp:<\/strong>
\nMetal pannel
\n5 PC fans<\/p>\n

Car:<\/strong>
\nMicrosoft mouse
\nCabinet rail wheels
\n4 gage wires
\nPlastic sail with pirate flag drawn on<\/p>\n

Power:<\/strong>
\nComputer power supply<\/p>\n

Face:<\/strong>
\nHeat sink<\/p>\n

Crown:<\/strong>
\nEmbroidery hoop
\nConstruction paper <\/p>\n

Our Rube Goldberg device was placed before the last device on the line. A pully triggered our first input switch. The first input was built out of two metal pieces we held open with a high gage wire. Once triggered the printer turned on and the cartridge holder moved from left to right. We attached the guitar hero’s fretboard to the ink cartridge holder so it would hit the whammy bar, which would then spin around and loosen the high gage wire holding open the second switch.
\nThe second switch triggered a set of 5 fans that will push a pirate car down the metal ramp.
\nWe added a robot character to the device by hot glueing the heat sink and putting a crown on top as part of the face.
\nEach component of the device emerged organically from unassembling all the artifacts we had. The process felt like putting a puzzle together, but in this case the outcome was unpredictable. Each time we grabbed a loose piece thought “what can we do with this?” and “how can we make it do something?”
\nThose questions were what drove our machine to have some character and to make our final output into a pirate sail car built from a microsoft mouse.
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