Waterway Marble Drop

For this project me and Bailey created the theme of water park through this marble drop. This idea came through the funnel like in the picture on the left and how you would be funneled through it into other tubes. Having all the tubes leading into many different areas and tubes made it seem almost like an obstacle course inside the piece. One of the hardest things in this project was making sure everything would perfectly end up in the correct areas. It was also hard to have the marble to staying high so that it would be able to go around the piece. We used a pulley system to move the marble higher. First you insert the marble into any of the 4 tubes made out of PVC pipe. It would then fall into the funnel and go into the wire coil and onto the track. Then it would fall into the bucket and be pulled up by the wire until it hit the other wall. A pull of the string and the bucket would tip over into the black box, make its way onto another piece of PVC and then fall into the hole. If I could have changed one thing about this piece would have been to get a larger box so that we could have fit more things into it. I am very proud of the funnel idea and the pulley system.