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RUBE GOLDBERG APPARATUS- physics help!?

I need to build a machine which will extinguish fire at the end…something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScbWzhieNc

But ofcourse, less complicated :)

-minumum of 4 energy transformations required (such as elastic potential, kinetic, electrical, gravitational potential, magnetic)
-minumum of 12 steps required

I need helpp, i need to put out fire please and thank you!!
It is for grade 11

. At the end, have a pin poke a hole in a Water Ballon which is situated several feet over a burning candle. Pop!
It won’t take much effort.
At the beginning, have a string wrapped around a small candle. When the candle burns down to the string, it breaks and releases a ball which goes down a tunnel, etc …

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2 Responses to “RUBE GOLDBERG APPARATUS- physics help!?”

  1. well im not sure what you have to work with, but it often help with these kind of prodjects by starting at the end
    References :

  2. . At the end, have a pin poke a hole in a Water Ballon which is situated several feet over a burning candle. Pop!
    It won’t take much effort.
    At the beginning, have a string wrapped around a small candle. When the candle burns down to the string, it breaks and releases a ball which goes down a tunnel, etc …
    References :

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