Upgrade Your Winter Arsenal with an Automatic Snowball Launcher
It’s not truly winter until the first snowball flies. Arm yourself against your attackers with an automatic snowball launcher.
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These Engineering Students Put a T-Shirt Launcher on Their Hovercraft
In an effort to get more engineering students to attend college sporting events, these engineers are building a t-shirt launching hovercraft.
For Those About To Launch, We Salute You
Our latest Weekend Project will launch not one, not two, but ten model rockets simultaneously! Built around a 555 Timer IC and a few different types of launch switches, this project is ideal for rocket clubs and launch events.
Tiny Trebuchet Launches Virtual Bananas
ITP students Will Jennings and Lia Martinez built a small catapult (not a trebuchet in the strictest sense) that, when pulled back and released, announces “Banana” and triggers a video projection of said fruit flying into the wall. From Lia’s site:
Weekend Project: Ping Ponger
Propel a ping pong ball from a simple-to-make pvc launcher. Thanks go to Edwin Wise for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. To download The Ping Ponger video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Ping Ponger article in MAKE Volume 24 and you can see that in our Digital Edition.
Weekend Project: Ping Ponger (PDF)
Propel a ping pong ball from a simple-to-make pvc launcher. Thanks go to Edwin Wise for the original article in MAKE Volume 24. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend. Get the 2″ Snap Tee here
Weekend Project: Rubber Band Power
Build a fun-for-all-ages mini car launcher for next to nothing. Thanks go to Nancy Dorsner for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Rubber Band Power video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Rubber Band Power article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our […]
