Alright, after a lot of testing and a lot of problem solving, we finally finished the Rube Goldberg! Here's the whole thing edited together. I tried to film and edit the video so that you could easily view each part of the chain reaction, but if you missed anything, you can look at my previous post where I go into a lot more detail. As for the actual rollercoaster, I haven't worked on it much for a while now. The problem is that I have to go into school to work on it, and my teacher is busy often. Another issue is that I don't have the right components to start working out the next phase of construction (making a complete circuit, curved/banked track sections). That said, we should be able to get back to a regular schedule very soon.
So you may have noticed I haven't posted any updates since October. That's not because I'm inactive, but it's just that the circumstances have been such that I haven't been able to go in and work on my project. First, it's been getting darker earlier, which makes it hard to go in and work during the day. I get out of school at 3:35pm, and the sun goes down around 5:00pm. This means that by the time I get to FabLab after school to work on my project, I only have about half an hour of sunlight left to work in. Also, I'm currently working on figuring out how to bend pipes, and I don't have all of the tools I need yet. The plan for bending them is to pour hot sand into the PVC piping to make it more pliable, then strap it to a jig to bend it. For that I need something to heat the sand in large quantities, and all I have right now is a small camping stove; so not quite enough. College applications has also taken up a large chunk of my time the last couple of ...
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