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Lego Trebuchet
An anonymous reader submitted linkage to a
trebuchet made of legos. Using
australian coins for counterweights, it is able to throw a marble 50 feet or
more. I wish they had some photos of it in action, and maybe some
schematics for do it yourselfers, but regardless, looks like a fun
project if you have a pile of legos and a 4-day weekend ;)
If only they made lego cows to throw. This will change my castle wars now though.
"And your both 6 months pregnant by Billy Ray Sirus" "Then why is mom showing and i'm not?" - Married With Children
Now all we need is a lego Guillotine.
Thank you Dave Raggett
Of course, a major design flaw is the use of Australian coins, which only go about 56% as far as American ones.
http://au.finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&s=AUD&t=USD
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
So we've made a trebuchet out of lego bricks, but at what cost? Don't these mad men realise what they're combining? Weapons design, unlimited creativity, and lego bricks!
A few more rungs up the evolutionary design ladder coupled with another advance or two in mindstorms and we'll be recreating the first ten minutes of Teminator 2. Only this time, instead of a steel chromed skull, it'll be a smiling yellow face.
We're doomed.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Not lifesize, but pretty darn funny nonetheless
but you can only build the lego trebuchet after you upgrade the lego blacksmithy to make the lego siege workshop.
and don't forget to defend your lego trebuchet with lego archers and lego knights.
AND LOOKOUT FOR THE LEGO ZERG!
All we need now is the castle and Lego French Knights to taunt the English King and his men below...
And a Lego Cow.
RUN AWAY!!
kinda sad really.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
i once stuck all my lego together into a huge brick. i couldn't throw that 50 feet though.
"if i'd known it was harmless, i'd have killed it myself"
New NRA bumper sticker: Make Lego trebuchet criminal, and only criminals will have Lego trebuchets.
--All your stolen base are belong to Rickey Henderson
With enough lego parts you can also build a working catapult, although in Canada the government requires you to register it as a hand gun.
Oh god, the humour, it hurts. Stop. Please.
"I don't trust goats," --To Catch a Spy
twenty first actually
Apparently the guy who's hosting the site built his webserver from LEGO too.
/. effect.
NOTHING withstands the
It wouldn't be suitable in midaeval times (due to the wheel on the arm), but is quite easy to do for modern designs
Yes. As we all know, Sir John C. Wheel only invented and patented the Wheel (tm) in 1876.
Along with Fritz Von Brakes, he was the most important contributor the modern car...
(Man, I hope someone mods me up as Informative!)
You can't take the sky from me...