Project Description
For this project we were told to create a "Rube Goldberg" by using different chemical reactions. Our end goal was to light and LED light bulb by connection the circuit to some other part of our chemical domino. We were allowed to have at least two different chemical reactions throughout our project. My group did three different reactions. We started off planning our project through drawing our diagram of the ideas we had. Through different testing, we were able to tweak our design and make it workable in order to achieve our goal of lighting the LED.
For this project we were told to create a "Rube Goldberg" by using different chemical reactions. Our end goal was to light and LED light bulb by connection the circuit to some other part of our chemical domino. We were allowed to have at least two different chemical reactions throughout our project. My group did three different reactions. We started off planning our project through drawing our diagram of the ideas we had. Through different testing, we were able to tweak our design and make it workable in order to achieve our goal of lighting the LED.
Reflection
I loved doing this project. I thought how this project was planned was very well done. It was very interesting seeing how we could incorporate chemical reaction into a Rube Goldberg Machine, considering that we had done one previously freshman year. My group was able to really get into this project. Throughout all of the working days my group managed our time very well. We were pretty much ahead of everyone in our class. This gave us lots of time to do multiple testings, which only meant that we were able to perfect our project. My group did well at fixing the little mistakes that we had. Once we saw something wrong, we were able to change it right away to make it able to work just how we wanted. I believe we could have done better at researching the reactions that we had included in our project. We definitely could have found some better information on what cause the reactions to happen. I also believe that we could have found some easier ways to trigger some of the steps we had. It seemed as if we had complicated it more than it should have been.
I loved doing this project. I thought how this project was planned was very well done. It was very interesting seeing how we could incorporate chemical reaction into a Rube Goldberg Machine, considering that we had done one previously freshman year. My group was able to really get into this project. Throughout all of the working days my group managed our time very well. We were pretty much ahead of everyone in our class. This gave us lots of time to do multiple testings, which only meant that we were able to perfect our project. My group did well at fixing the little mistakes that we had. Once we saw something wrong, we were able to change it right away to make it able to work just how we wanted. I believe we could have done better at researching the reactions that we had included in our project. We definitely could have found some better information on what cause the reactions to happen. I also believe that we could have found some easier ways to trigger some of the steps we had. It seemed as if we had complicated it more than it should have been.