Has anyone else noticed a lot of movies with trebuchets and other catapults in them? I sure have. For instance, they were the special-effects stars in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, particularly, the Return of the King. They’ve been on TV as well: Fox Sports, the Simpsons, Northern Exposure, PBS Nova, Warner Brother’s cartoons and probably many others.
Bill Gurstelle is your MAKEcation counselor for the make-a-trebuchet Family Challenge. Build a trebuchet and post pictures tagged “MAKEcation” in the MAKE Flickr pool to enter to win a $100 Maker Shed gift certificate! More in my series of posts on How to Build a Catapult. In this post, I discuss Catapults, Ballistas, Trebuchets and […]
Bill Gurstelle is your MAKEcation counselor for the make-a-trebuchet Family Challenge. Build a trebuchet and post pictures tagged “MAKEcation” in the MAKE Flickr pool to enter to win a $100 Maker Shed gift certificate! Catapults are wonderful, exciting examples of technology. (I use the catapult to mean any projectile hurling device of ancient descent. Such […]
Instructable member (instructabler?) megatronix documented a simple yet interesting mod for electric guitar – isolating the bridge and neck pickup wiring into 2 seperate channels for stereo seperation. Hmm … the hard-panning could make for some fresh recordings, and if not, using multiple effects chains & amps could be fun. Unfortunately no audio sample as […]
This is an interesting project for gathering pollen samples for analysis. It’s basically a fan controlled by a PIC16F690. The fan draws air over a piece of sticky tape for a specific amount of time in hopes of catching some airborne particles. Apparently it works quiet well. Be sure to check out the all the […]
Terry Trier has written a good tutorial on carving this classic whimsy from a single piece of wood.
Sand castle QR code, via BBG. I love summer!
