Alyssa final Portfolio

I made the attachment, the  ramp, and partially made the wheel for the Rube Goldberg. I had two prototypes of the attachment and a lot of wheel prototypes. We were very close to finishing, but we just need to put everything together. The machine was supposed to have something hit the attachment that was attached to the wheel.The wheel would spin and the attachment would hit the duck. The duck would roll down a ramp and then go on to another team’s Robe Goldberg machine.In making the wheel I though it was going to be quick, but it turned out that I made a wheel prototype out of rok and blocks and then Jaron made the wheel on inkscape, a vector program, so we could use the laser cutter to cut the wheel. For the ramp we were originally going to have water pour into it so I design it in a 3D modeling program called tinker cad so I could 3D print it in the 3D printer. Then we changed the the design to being a monorail and I built the ramp out of rok and blocks.The laser cutter and 3D printer were in the Fab Lab so the class had to go down there sometimes to cheek on the parts. The machines in the Fab Lab was CNC machine which are machines that people use computers to control. The easiest part was the attachment and wheel. The challenging part was the ramp and base for the wheel. I went around asking my team mates about the measurement and if the objects looked right so we could print it or cut it without wasting material.We had to figure out the size of the duck, the wheel, the attachment, and the base. If these didn’t fit together then the whole Rube Goldberg machine would not work.