Rube Goldberg Inventions

For as long as I can remember, my passion has been in figuring out how everything around me works. I suppose I came by it naturally. My father was constantly tinkering; in fact, our basement resembled a graveyard for lifeless computer parts. He would take all the computers that no one loved anymore, salvage them for parts, and bring them back to life. When he was done, I always had a “new” toy to play with. I suppose, in my own way, I carried on the family tradition. To the chagrin of my parents, every time a new toy arrived, I would have it in pieces all over my bedroom floor within the half hour. Everything wound up being unscrewed, unglued, and dismantled; this curiosity has continued throughout my life.

I have been fascinated by computers since I was seven. That’s when I first attended a Take Your Child to Work Day with my dad, a software engineer. I begged him to teach me how to program. He began by teaching me BASIC on an original IBM PC, and I eventually taught myself C++, Java, Python, and more.

Because of the people I chose to surround myself around, I found myself wanting to go into the field of engineering. My friends knew I had a passion for math and they suggested engineering as an occupation I should look into. As of result of that, I found myself getting into more hands-on projects in my last two years of high school, as well as taking an engineering focused course in high school to try it out. I fell in love with the career path and since then, I aspire to become an

I have always loved to write, and it became even more evident when I entered elementary school. I quickly befriended a girl named Beth, who lived just down the road from me. One afternoon that I remember in particular was in the middle of the summer. She and I were set to write a book. We had read countless storybooks on our own, and we could not see why we could not write one too. We sat down with a notebook and two pencils, and we were set to go.

I had always wanted to program, not just anything. I wanted to program video games. Not just any video game. I wanted to to program the greatest game ever made.

I love coding in my free time and I do truly believe that I flourish when I find myself coding. The limits of what you can do with coding are next to non-existent, and the idea of a platform with infinite possibilities engrosses me and leads to me to work as efficiently as possible towards the end goal of creating a product in which I see infinite possibilities. On top of that, another possible contributing reason for why I think coding may allow me to flourish is that with the infinite possibilities (as I stated before) comes curiosity, a curiosity that has no conclusion. The feeling of curiosity I feel as I code has a cause and effect relationship with me in that it turns me onto new methods of coding or new languages of coding which then

One of my greatest skills and talents is working with technology and coding websites, I started coding a website on my own around the age of 12 and 13. I got into computers because of gaming. Once I started finding out how to code I wanted to build my own computer, I started gathering parts to build my own computer every since I was 13. I coded my own website on my own with no help at all fluently, It took me a month to make a simple website which made me realize that one of my talents is working with computers from the inside out. I never really shared this talent with anybody before besides my family members and a few friends, I am the first person they come to when it comes to technology like phones, computers, game systems, anything dealing

The imagine that is displayed in the textbook is called the Rube Goldberg Machine. It was invented by a cartoonist named, Jeffrey Coolidge, whom was known for displaying simple tasks in complex ways. The image presented in the textbook, is showing how to turn on a light switch, by moving necessary objects with certain amount of force to be triggered. One must first set the obstacle into action for the effect to happen.

Our Rube Goldberg Machine consists of exactly fifteen steps. It includes all fifteen required areas of physics.

When I watched my first Pixar movie and bought my first Nintendo DS, I was amazed by the creativity and entranced by the "new worlds" created by programmers. I want to learn computer programming because I believe that computer programming creates innovation and dreams into realities. Today, technology amazingly connects people through virtual realities, social media, and many more programs which is what I dream of being apart of.

I'll start to a time when I was around 6 or 7. I always had the desire to build things and come up with so super cool ideas of stuff to make but never had the stuff or experience to do it. So I always drew my ideas out. I wasn't a good drawer so over time I made it one of my goals to achieve the goal to be able to draw. Over time I got better and better. A while after I received legos. Ever since I was really little I tried begging my parents to get me legos to just have fun building stuff. So when I got legos I was super stoked to get them on my seventh birthday. My Grandma bought a ton of legos for me to play with. When I got them I thought I’d be a super pro and know what I was doing. I didn’t I was so confused and I had such a hard time figuring it all out.

Have you had the experience of having an annoying noise at work or in class, maybe when taking a test or during a meeting? Doesn't it just drive you crazy? If you haven't you should know it's very annoying, especially when it's a fidget spinner. They create a distraction in class that makes you lose concentration if your not using it the right way. They are a problem, I think that the school should ban fidget spinners, and replace them with fidget cubes or rubber bands for kids who need something to concentrate with.

Fidget spinners are the newest trend that kids are obsessed with. However, these toys have many negative qualities to them. Kids should not have fidget spinners. Fidget spinners, while originally made to help kids with medical problems like ADHD, are now a distraction. They also are dangerous. Children all over the U.S. have been sent to hospitals because of incidents involving these toys. Not only are they a choking hazard, but they are overhyped by kids everywhere. The children who actually need them can not get to them because they are sold out everywhere. These dangerous, distracting, and over-hyped toys should be taken off of shelves immediately.

The thought of being able to create something, to bring into reality an idea that originated from the imagination, has caught and kept my attention since I was in elementary school. When I was young, I seemed to have a knack for taking things apart and putting them back together. Whether I was trying to fix a CD walkman or looking at the inside of an old computer, I genuinely enjoyed analyzing the different components of an object and learning about what made it work.

For as long as I can remember I’ve always loved learning new things and acquiring new skills. Anything that seemed remotely interesting to me was reason enough to be explored. Whether it was learning to skateboard, or taking apart old technology to see how it worked, I always wanted to do something and try something new or different. One particular venture that got me into the STEM field specifically was when I wanted to learn music production. I had friends who made beats and it looked really fun to me, so I went home downloaded some software, and was disheartened to see that old computer my uncle had given us was not powerful enough to run the software well. From that day on I had researched how to upgrade computers and make them faster