| Treatises | Engines Of War | Engineering | Battles | Spare Parts | Plunder |
Kid-A-Pult
|
|||
|
What do you build when your young kids see you playing with lots of catapults which are all to dangerous for them to play with? They know it's fun. They see you launching stuff. They clearly need a catapult of their own. I designed this Kid-A-Pult to be just dangerous enough to injure my kids, but not kill them. They know it's dangerous, and they know they have to work together to make it work. They love it.
The whole thing was built from junk and left-overs from my shop.
Put your projectile in the bucket, and you are ready for launch!
|
|
Contact: Team Tormentum Copyright © 2000-2022 Eric M. Ludlam All rights reserved. Twas' brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe... | Last Modified: 05/10/09 |
Built on a piece of 
Getting ready for launch requires two kids to work together.
Pushing the arm down next to the the bit of angle iron
that is pre-drilled with holes allows the red-handled trigger beam (from an old lawn mower)
to be pushed through the hole in the arm.
Sit in the right place, pull the trigger, and SPROING ... off it goes about 10 to 15 feet.
What more could you ask for?
Kid-A-Pult takes 1st place at the