of success in failure

Greetings ladies and gentlemen. Today's post will be about something really outdated --- my previous physics project, The Rube Goldberg "silly" machine.

The objective is to turn off an alarm clock using a Rube Goldberg machine lasting more than 20 seconds. Our team, me, Kit Yee and Choo started off with many ideas, but got restricted by the rules posted by our lecturer Dr. Lan. Well, we still managed to pull through after a hell lot of man, and woman-hours. Haha. And finally completed our structure only days before the actual run.

And as you might have heard or guessed through the title, it didn't work...during the formal test run. It did work before and after it though... =_=" Yeap. 1 human intervention for each runs and all of them in different places. Really random. So, we've gotten a 16/18 for our performance mark which will be added with a creativity mark later on.

Oh well, I guess luck just wasn't on our side that morning/afternoon. It was a really disappointing and heart-breaking moment when our machine got stuck and needless to say, our faces were extra long at that moment. -_-"

However, I felt compensated when we were rewarded full marks for creativity and our tutor and lecturer complimented us about the project. Although it didn't work properly, it was surely intimidating other teams and awed and gawked upon on that day. It's like being a proud owner of something "cool" and fancy and letting others admire it. =D *syok sendiri* wakakakkaka.

Anyway, big thanks to my teammates Choo & Kit Yee, for making this project a really fun one and quite satisfying. =D and oh... 'no paper products' =_="

Our beloved machine (forgotten to name it). Consists of wire holder, wires, metal balls, magnets, LEGO, tripods, stools, encyclopedias, pipes, tubes, wood, golf ball, die, pencil holder, aluminium sheets, duct tapes, duct tapes, duct tapes and lots and lots of duct tapes. XD