Simple Rube Goldberg Machine III

Now don't tell me this is not simple, I know it is. It turns on both a music box and a Nintendo DS. I did not do the whole showing what the machine looks like before, so tell me which way is better. Sorry for the terrible lighting, it's the best I've got at night. This machine was supposed to be much longer but we are moving in a week so I had to clean up so we can get to packing.
Steps:
1) I put a marble into a wooden marble game and it hits a train track standing upright.
2)The train track knocks a marble into a wooden thing that ejects the marble from the side. That marble hits another train track and knocks another marble in.
3) The marble rolls down a Scrabble board and barely manages to knock down some dominoes.
4) The dominoes hit a train track bridge and a marble starts rolling down. Eventually the balance is put completely off and the marble falls into another wooden marble game.
5) The marble hits more dominoes and the dominoes in turn hit another marble.
6) The marble rolls down and bounces onto a toy car.
7) The toy car rolls down and knocks down some upright train track pieces which hit another toy car.
8) The car slides down a wooden slide and flies off to hit a racing type toy for toddlers.
9) The shock makes another car go down the toy and hit more upright train track pieces.
10) One block has a string on it tied to a music box and as it falls it pulls out the drawer to make the music play. The drawer knocks down dominoes and various N64 cases and games.
11) A N64 game bumps into a train toy which rides down and jostles a marble enough to descend down a plastic marble game.
12) The marble knocks down more dominoes and a wooden track piece which falls on a ruler acting as a lever.
13) This makes my three Wii game cases fall down and hit a DS with a domino right over the Diddy Kong Racing icon which then starts up.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Rube
• Goldberg
• Chain
• Reaction
• Marble

[kkprincess15]

Ok so my science class has to build a Rube Goldberg machine with 3 simple machines (ex. lever, pulley, inclined plane, screw, etc) and its due TOMORROW and we havent even drawn a sketch for it!!! I need help!!! Any ideas???

[Yoshirule]

Cool, does it need to be transportable?

For levers, rulers make good ones. Look at my "Rube Goldberg Machine VI" where I use one in the beginning.

Board game boards make good inclined planes. I used them in the second machine.

I haven't yet used a screw, but you can make a simple pulley system by like I did in machine 6 a domino with a string falls off the table, making the vertical motion of the domino become horizontal motion for a wooden block attached to it.

[Yoshirule]

(to add on, out of space on the last one)

Some more tips. Make the riskiest part of the machine first. If the first steps are always perfect, and then the risky part near the end, it becomes very annoying to set up the whole thing. If it fails near the start, at least there isn't much to redo.

Also just experiment with whatever you have. Marbles and dominoes feel a bit cheap, but I must admit if there's a problem, you can usually restart with one of the two. Good luck with it.

[Pahjx]

"Simple Rube Goldberg machine" That is an Oximoron

[MegaMightyBeanz123]

the costumer:cool...but can it be reusable

the salesman:um uuuuummmmmmmmmmmm

the costumer:???

the salesman:no.no...nope...

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[bobiscool6143]

I rank it weirdest way to turn on a DS

[Esmaralda222]

Wish i had that much sparetime...

[murciegado]

Saaea

[murciegado]

Aaassssssassss

[Titanic1297]

Must take a long time to make these

[thejetachannel]

Check out my rube goldbergs!

[ChubbyCheekChipmunk]

turning on the music box and you ds is quicker

[NeshaPooh2011]

okay we isdoing a project on this and it is due 2marrow wat do idu ineed help igo to oakhaven

[Johnniesvideos]

This is so cool!