[757labs] Steam engineers?

[Trevor Lewis]

It would be interesting to create a robotic self targeting and correcting
trebuchette... :)

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Dave Johnson <proletroll at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is true.  Now that I think of it, lobber Vs. water balloon zeppelin
> would be a better match-up and an easier one for me to build.  I think we
> should make a short film: "Pumpkin Vs. Zeppelin 2012"
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Trevor Lewis <trevorl.salad at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Tell ya what though, if that lobber manages to hit your copter, I can
>> pretty much guarantee that there will be very little left of it. :)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Dave Johnson <proletroll at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I've been wanting to built a 'copter that drops water balloons on my
>>> neighbors, I bet I could drop a balloon on your pumpkin lobber before you
>>> could shoot my chopper down...
>>>
>>> =Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> A steam capacitor with a pumpkin dialectric? Nice.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Trevor Lewis <trevorl.salad at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've always wanted to make one, both a trebuchette version and a
>>>>> compressed air/giant robot/nuclear powered version. I got a really nifty
>>>>> desktop desktop trebuchette that I still need to put together. Picked it up
>>>>> from http://www.em-labs.com/ when they were still on Kickstarter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, yes, you would need a container of some sort. But it doesn't
>>>>> necessarily need to be very big. It would be a good way to make a capacitor
>>>>> of sorts.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Dave Johnson <proletroll at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This was nearly derailed into a punkin chunker thread, which isn't a
>>>>>> bad idea in itself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =DaveJ
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, that's right, this is for my solar boiler. It needs to be
>>>>>>> steam to use with the system I've designed so far.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess air could be pressurized by heating it inside of a closed
>>>>>>> system. But wouldn't I need a giant vessel of air to store up any serious
>>>>>>> amount of energy?  I was never good at chemistry.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Adam Crosby <adam at uptill3.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think he's built a solar boiler, and is looking to use it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Trevor Lewis wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> > Does it have to be steam? A standard compressor will get over 100
>>>>>>>> PSI,
>>>>>>>> > and the bigger ones can do 200+. You can generally find them
>>>>>>>> pretty
>>>>>>>> > cheap on craigslist.
>>>>>>>> >
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