Rube Goldberg machine “Tricky toaster”

This machine was created to turn on a toaster, It incorporates 5 types of energy including gravitational, mechanical, magnetic, thermal and electrical, and includes simple machines such as a wheel and axle, a screw, a lever, and an inclined plane, the course of events goes as follows. Hairdryer (electric to mechanical) turned on, pushes car (wheel and axle), the car rolls down onto a plane, pushing dominos over (Mechanical to gravitational) Hitting the lever into the ball (Mechanical to gravitational), the ball rolls down the incline and into a corkscrew, once done the corkscrew  It hits the door into the other ball (Gravitational to mechanical back to gravitational)  The ball goes into motion because of the force on the door, it then rolls into the bucket, the metal ball rolls into the sled and is held in place by a magnet (Gravitational to magnetic to mechanical) The toaster lever goes down due to the weight on it, therfore cooking the pancake (Gravitational to mechanical to thermal)
now here is the video and diagram of the machine

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