Showing posts with label trebuchets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trebuchets. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2008

Pumpkins and trebuchets


Okay, all of you undergraduate and graduate students--have some fun this Halloween and construct a pumpkin tossing trebuchet. Exercise your Medieval sense of competition. Redefine "hurling". Plenty of time to construct a catapult and harvest a few pumpkins. Better than bobbing for apples and Homeland Security approved.



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Reconstructing Medieval Artillery

The Algorithmic Beauty of the Trebuchet

The Grey Company Trebuchet Page