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calebxy wrote:

Hopefully, tomorrow, I'll see if I can find that other remote control car, take it apart and get the two motors from it. Then I'll try and begin putting the web shooter together at last.

Good luck!

I've updated the blog, talking about how I'm going to make the hooks. http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … hooks.html

calebxy wrote:

I've updated the blog, talking about how I'm going to make the hooks. http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … hooks.html

did u seriously consider making them out of CLAY

soupoftomato wrote:

calebxy wrote:

Well, my dad is currently changing around one of the rooms, so my house is quite a bit too cluttered to begin taking apart an R/C car (which is incredibly messy as I discovered).    So instead, I wanted to stick the circle of cork I made onto the end of the motor, but I couldn't find the double sided adhesive tape I wanted to use, so I couldn't do that either. But I was determined to do at least something productive, so I talked to my friend about how to make the tiny hooks (because I've realised that it would be much much too expensive to buy them). He did help me and give me a nice amount of advice, but here's the start:

(on Skype)
Me: So I want to make them myself. Which leads me to ask, How do you suggest doing that?
My friend: A brick wall. And a head.

I thought that was very very funny.    He has zero confidence in any of my projects actually working.   

Well anyway, tomorrow I'm going to hopefully go to the shops and buy that tape I wanted (and perhaps some super glue), glue the cork circle to the end of the motor, and see how well it fires a dart when I just have a flat surface as the other side.

Dude, lego motors man.

Buy them by the piece from the site.

For the web shooters? R/C car motors will be perfectly fine, and surely considerably more powerful than Lego motors (I presume you mean the motors used to drive the wheels of Lego car models).

calebxy wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

calebxy wrote:

Well, my dad is currently changing around one of the rooms, so my house is quite a bit too cluttered to begin taking apart an R/C car (which is incredibly messy as I discovered).    So instead, I wanted to stick the circle of cork I made onto the end of the motor, but I couldn't find the double sided adhesive tape I wanted to use, so I couldn't do that either. But I was determined to do at least something productive, so I talked to my friend about how to make the tiny hooks (because I've realised that it would be much much too expensive to buy them). He did help me and give me a nice amount of advice, but here's the start:

(on Skype)
Me: So I want to make them myself. Which leads me to ask, How do you suggest doing that?
My friend: A brick wall. And a head.

I thought that was very very funny.    He has zero confidence in any of my projects actually working.   

Well anyway, tomorrow I'm going to hopefully go to the shops and buy that tape I wanted (and perhaps some super glue), glue the cork circle to the end of the motor, and see how well it fires a dart when I just have a flat surface as the other side.

Dude, lego motors man.

Buy them by the piece from the site.

For the web shooters? R/C car motors will be perfectly fine, and surely considerably more powerful than Lego motors (I presume you mean the motors used to drive the wheels of Lego car models).

Well, Lego things I have made (cars are especially compact) always seemed pretty heavy so a motor moving it around.

I've updated the blog with a post discussing the first attempt of the wall climbing gloves: http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … tempt.html

And now the second attempt, which went a lot better!    http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … tempt.html

Updated: http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … ncept.html

soupoftomato wrote:

I assume you have a camera or phone so pictures might be nice on this.

I put pictures on the latest post.

Updated again: http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … -lane.html

calebxy wrote:

I've updated it at long last with a post about the wall climbing gloves, and also a post about how to make a lightsabre. http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … rious.html

calebxy wrote:

mythbusteranimator wrote:

calebxy wrote:

I've updated it at long last with a post about the wall climbing gloves, and also a post about how to make a lightsabre. http://ridiculous-inventions.weebly.com … rious.html

http://i.imgur.com/fyvJTMN.gif 

Did you read the post?

Yeah. Cool!

owetre18 wrote:

What about that box that turns itself off?

Thats actually pretty cool. If you're an electronics nerd.