User:Defender0/ENES-100/project 1/CDIO tutorial

Target Audience
This tutorial is meant to help anyone who wants to design a Rube Goldberg Machine be able to do so in a more efficient manner

Starting Point

 * Google Sketchup or similar program, preferably with a physics engine (SketchyPhysics for Google Sketchup for example)
 * Minecraft (optional, helps for learning the logic of designing a Rube Goldberg Machine)

Replication Goal

 * Completed design of a Rube Goldberg Machine
 * Starting point to build a prototype of the design

Procedure
Minecraft Rube Goldberg Machine Tutorial Video This video will help demonstrate the following steps using a Minecraft example


 * 1) Design the final section of the Rube Goldberg Machine, effectively determining what the machine will accomplish
 * 2) Design individual parts of the machine, working backwards from the final section, designing each part one at a time in sequence
 * 3) Design the starting mechanism, the first part of the machine
 * 4) Use a program such as Google Sketchup to create the Rube Goldberg Machine virtually, so that testing of the overall design can be done