I will never make another Rube Goldberg machine. Making Christian's just about killed us all. All total we spent over 6 hours during the last two days on a "machine" that takes about 10 seconds to run. It was nuts. Every time we thought we'd gotten everything right, one little thing went wrong. We went through many stages of emotions during this project. We started out hopeful and optimistic, but that quickly became optimistic frustration, followed by annoyance, anger, rage, and finally acceptance. All the joy went out of the activity after a while and I became resigned to the fact that this would be my sisyphean task for eternity. Start video, push books, watch it fail, delete video, reset fallen items, start again. We'd fix it and be convinced that the next run was going to be it and something else would go wrong. However, in the end, we finally got a good run and caught it on camera and were elated. Christian and I talked about the importance of sticking something out and how things don't always work the first or the hundredth time, but you have to keep trying. The frustration is temporary but the satisfaction lasts. Here's Christian's video:
I couldn't figure out how to import the video of the machine from the flipgrid program that the schools use, so I did a screen capture video as I watched it on my phone.
Once we finally got the machine working perfectly and uploaded the video, we had no desire to go anywhere today. We simply hung out at home in the backyard because in the shade with the breeze, it was much cooler than in the house.
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