The Nozzle Design
20 04 2009Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: DIY, experiement, Fountain, fun, Laminar, LED, Manufacturing, Mircocontroller, Nozzle
Categories : DIY, Electronics, Fountain, Laminar, Nozzle, Uncategorized
Trebuchet – The Bucket
14 10 2008
So as I mentioned before I’ve enlisted some help from my friends since this project is bigger than me! I might be able to do all of this on my own but it would take 5 years to finish instead of 5 weeks. Sir Prichart Jefferson Hunt welded up this AWESOME metal box known as the The Bucket!
The bucket is is one of the most important parts of a trebuchet! It has to be very sturdy since this is going to be holding about 600 lbs of concrete. Not only does it have to hold the concrete, but it also has to swing it around, generating about 2100 lbs of force. The concrete blocks that I am making will fit into this bucket. I’ve only made one concrete block and I suspect that we will need about 3 – 4 block.
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Tags: DIY, Experiments, Manufacturing, projects, trebuchet, welding
Categories : trebuchet
Compressed Air Rockets (Part 3)
25 09 2008
These images were taken from SpaceTec
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Tags: compressed air, DIY, Manufacturing, paper, rocket, rockets
Categories : Manufacturing, rockets
Compressed Air Rockets (Part 2.01)
17 09 2008There are a number of people are interested in my Altoids Can Ignition Switch, so I thought I would post a few more pictures to help them out on there journey.
- The toggle switch in is the off position.
Underneath the electrical tape is the illuminated momentary push button, and the toggle switch (or single pull single throw (s.p.s.t.) switch). Also shown is the two binding posts. I still need to draw up a schematic, but it is really simple. The toggle switch activates the momentary push button, and the momentary push button activates the binding posts.
The safety is off and the Altoids tin is armed.
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Compressed Air Rockets (Part2)
13 09 2008So 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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