How to move a bean (or multiple beans) one meter up and one meter over. This was the question that baffled us, up until the final day. The basic construction of our device was a counterweight system. We placed a meter stick in the sink and tied a rubber band around it near the top. Then we placed a cup in the rubber band, and a bean in the cup. Next we taped a box behind the meter stick on the counter, and rigged up another ruler on top of the box. Finally we set up the counterweight system with a paperclip on one side (with a bean attached to it) and a bag of pinto beans on the other. In theory, what was supposed to happen was we would drop the bag of beans, this would raise up the paperclip with the bean, and also hit the ruler. The ruler would fly up and hit the up with enough force that it would send the bean inside flying at least a meter. This worked only about 2-5% of the time, but that's at least better than 0%. Below are pictures and a video showing what we constructed (early apologies about the video being sideways).
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