Making a machine is more complex than you think

This group project has been sucking all our school time for the past 2-4 weeks it has devoured everyone in a tsunami of work, planning, filming and building. This process has been messy at best and at worst absolute chaos. This is the reality of making a machine to represent a historical movement that bend history on an inevitable past that would end up right now in the present with us making this machine. Had a slight thing gone different in any of these I would not be here writing this and you would not be hear reading it. This butterfly effect is mirrored in our project. If some tiny detail was changed at the start the whole thing would be different. Like at the beginning when I suggested the machine be based off traveling. The whole project would look completely different. I think this is a really cool way to look at it. To beat visualize the work and planning that went into this project I made a short iMovie. 
https://youtu.be/XEUzKq9aLJY