Marble Run Challenge

Mozilla game on 2010.

Marble run challenge.

Pool noodle marble run use either duplo or regular lego to build supports for a pool noodle marble run. Engineering home 04 the marble run challenge 04 1. Now design the route your. So many building possibilities here.

Lego duplo and pool noodle marble run. Ages 10 as an independent project would be best to do in groups or ages 6 with adult help. Challenge 04 cardboard chair. The challenge use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run.

Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. Challenge 03 marble run. This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club. Can you build a marble run with a play dough path.

The marble must run for 60 seconds. Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. Some good ideas are a cereal box or a shoe box lid but any piece of cardboard will do. Find something to act as a backboard for your marble run this can be as big or small as you would like.

Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. Paper cups make the perfect material for supporting the structure and they can be cut to any height. With increasing length more and more special bricks get unlocked to allow you to build even more tracks. Play dough cups and craft sticks.

As the marble starts to move and the energy changes from gravitational energy to kinetic energy the distance the marble travels will depend on the design of the ramp and the friction involved. Finally a good way to use all of those old cereal boxes. Every user built track that is added to the marble run increases the total length of the over all track. Lego marble run use lego bricks to create a marble run.

If needed cut an entrance for your marble to enter at the top. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts. Lots of test runs to figure out where the marble gets stuck or falls off and plenty of tweaking to find ways to slow. The gravitational energy in the marble will depend on the height of the starting point of the marble run and the size of the marble.