Rocket Man

Morgan and I made a 2 liter soda bottle launcher powered by compressed air. We didn't do anything special to the bottle like fix a nose cone on it or anything. I figure that is a another project for another weekend. Plus we only had one bottle and I didn't want her to accidentally put a hole in the bottle and ruin the experiment.

Oh and we found out that if you fill the bottle with 1/3 water it goes much higher or further depending on your perspective. It seemed like adding more didn't do much for you and at some point the performance degraded. I suggest if you make one of these that you do not aim it straight up as the water then rains down on you.

Next time I'll aim at the street in hopes of hitting a car. We shot the rocket many more times then you will see in the movie but Morgan's filming skills still need some practice.

If you look to the right I added a new feature called "Followers". I'm not exactly sure what it does, but its nice to know people are watching my videos. I also added a RSS feature as well. Hopefully these new tools will help notify you when I have added a video.

Egg-tas-tick

I've been spending this cold winter doing a lot of inside home improvement projects. Painting, fixing walls, a little electrical that type of thing. This weekend however, I decided Morgan and I would do some experiments. Good quality educational time together. I don't know if she actually got anything out of it but she enjoyed it. We made contraptions to hold an egg and keep it safe while being dropped from a high point on the highschool bleachers surrounding the football field. Football is an important sport at my old highschool. Let me correct that American Football is important. I don't even know if they have a soccer team(football to everyone else).