Today, Ian and I worked on developing our Rube Goldberg machine component, brainstorming ideas and sketching potential aspects of the device. We have decided to incorporate the force of a mousetrap into our component, which will expel an object – most likely a ball – onto a platform and knock a stream of dominos, which will in turn push a ball down a slide and continue to the next component of the Rube Goldberg machine. At the beginning of the process, a ball will fall down a slide and roll and trigger the mousetrap.