Rube Goldberg Machine

I'll start out by saying OKGO is a inspiration in many ways to me. The way they think and brainstorm in creating their music videos is fodder for my own creativity as well as my students. I particularly love their video Needing/Getting. I would show This to Shall Pass to my classes when I taught EFL in Korea once a year for a summer camp lesson. We always had a fun time planing and explaining them. 



I decided to keep it simple because I know that there would be some troubleshooting needed when the group was going to be putting it all together during class the following week. I erred towards reliability and predictability in my servo code. I had envisioned some sort of ball or cylinder rolling along to hit a button that would trigger the code on the servo...which would trigger something else!

During class we started out with a plan on paper and then pieced it together. I had a lot of fun trying things out and seeing where we needed to tweak and reenforce. The first time we did a run through it worked perfectly to our surprise! When we tried it a 2nd time the balloon didn't pop, though... oh no!