If you watched my YouTube video on my Hawker Hurricane RC plane, then you might have noticed that there were only a few clips of me actually flying after the airplane was fixed. The reason for this is because when my brother was recording me flying, it was hard for him to see the screen […]
About four, maybe five, years ago I thought up the idea of using a mousetrap as the main part of a remote ignition system for lighting ‘experimental’ fireworks and such. The idea was to attach a match to the mouse trap’s lever and have a matchbox striker pad suspended above. When the mousetrap was triggered […]
This past week I discovered that the light fixture in our bathroom was coming apart at the seams. Since it appeared that it could completely break and fall on someone, I decided to fix it. After getting the fixture down I began to work on it. There were two places where the glass frames were […]
Over the weekend I went night fishing with my family. When you go night fishing you want to set up lanterns to attract bugs. The bugs attract small fish, the small fish attract bigger fish, and those fish attract even bigger fish (the ones you want to catch). So having a lantern is pretty important. […]
So I’ve built my Firecracker Dispenser out of wood and with tighter tolerances. This version, version 2, is better constructed than version 1, but I am still having problems with jamming. This version is made out of 1/8″ balsa wood. It’s the exact same design as the first version, it is now just made out […]
It has been by goal for a few years to design and build a machine that will hold multiple firecrackers, dispense them one by one, and then light them. Not only would this be really cool to just set on the ground and let it run, but my end goal with this idea will be […]