Marble Run Challenge

This game was developed by students of the salzburg university of applied science for the game on 2010 challenge.

Marble run challenge.

Creating and debugging a marble run is really fun. Can you build a marble run with a play dough path. Paper cups make the perfect material for supporting the structure and they can be cut to any height. Challenge 03 marble run.

Find something to act as a backboard for your marble run this can be as big or small as you would like. If needed cut an entrance for your marble to enter at the top. Marble run 2 instructions introduce the design challenge. Pool noodle marble run use either duplo or regular lego to build supports for a pool noodle marble run.

With increasing length more and more special bricks get unlocked to allow you to build even more tracks. 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. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time. Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute.

Mozilla game on 2010. Lego duplo and pool noodle marble run. Lego marble run use lego bricks to create a marble run. The marble must run for 60 seconds.

Play dough cups and craft sticks. Watch the video to see how dyson engineers have tackled the problem including an impressive run made from dyson parts. So many building possibilities here. Ages 10 as an independent project would be best to do in groups or ages 6 with adult help.

Lots of test runs to figure out where the marble gets stuck or falls off and plenty of tweaking to find ways to slow. Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. 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. This is an awesome engineering challenge and would be perfect for a lego club.

Now design the route your. 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. The challenge use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run.