Compressed Air Rockets (Part2)

13 09 2008

So what this project is missing is two things. The first thing and most obvious is paper rockets. We’ll cover that later. Right now I wanted to describe how to make a detonation box or the ignition switch.

Most of the parts can be found at Radio Shack.  The part they may not have is the illuminate momentary push button, but they have plenty of buttons that aren’t illuminated.  The parts that are needed are detailed below:

Material:

9 Volt Battery

Single Pull Single Throw Switch

Momentary Push Button (LED illuminate if possible)

Binding Posts

Solderless Banana plugs

Altoids tin (or any other brand or some sort of enclosure)

This is what the final design will look like.

Note:  The binding posts are not shown in this picture.  That was thought up after the picture.  When I get the chance I will update the picture and take some pictures of the guts.


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15 09 2008
Kristie

This is interesting to me.

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