Cool Duplo Project #27 – Trebuchet

We are dangerously entering the realm of projectiles.

I MacGyver’d a sling with rubber bands & a rubber balloon.

I’m helping the counterweight a bit since Duplos don’t have much mass; there is definitely room for improvement in other regards, the sling release specifically. currently it takes a few trials to get a good trajectory.

[mejsvideo mp4=”http://ben.akrin.com/videos/trebuchet.mov.mp4″ ogg=”http://ben.akrin.com/videos/trebuchet.mov.ogv” webm=”http://ben.akrin.com/videos/trebuchet.mov.webm” poster=”http://ben.akrin.com/videos/trebuchet.mov.jpg” width=”360″ height=”640″]Medieval warfare? More like Medieval fun times.