For Engineers Week (last week), we had a competition at work to see who could build the biggest and baddest Rube Goldberg machine. The point of the machine was to have a light bulb screw into a socket and then turn on.
We decided to build our machine in one of the mostly uninhabited buildings at Nela Park. We have a large library on campus, and there we decided to build our machine using materials found mostly in that building.
The library has many books. I’m not entirely sure that it gets used that often, with the advent of the Internet (and/or Wikipedia).
We walked into the adjoining room and discovered it was a beautiful studio that would be perfect for building our machine.
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Here, someone is setting up the cassette tapes that will be domino-ed to set off the next step. I’m not sure who is setting these up because I don’t memorize my co-workers’ clothing.
Here, Joe and Alex are perfecting the screwing in mechanism.
Check out our machine! After 32 or so runs, we finally got it to (mostly) work! Alex had to help it along a little bit but it almost went off without a hitch.
Unfortunately, my team didn’t win, but we did come in 3rd place!! (Out of 4 D:)
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