Fun books for Backyard Shenanigans

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Not really robot related, but sometimes I get so frustrated with work I need to blow off some steam. Enter Backyard Ballistics, a great book that teaches you how to make spudguns, mini-catapults, and smallest of all, matchstick rockets.

This, and a few more books are written by William Gurstell, the man who had a website called backyard-ballistics.com, that sparked my brain into more research into amateury-ness.

I've only read Backyard Ballistics and Whoosh Boom Splat!, but both are awesome to have in the library for a plethora of weekend projects to make your S.O. swear and yell at you!

Later kids!

-Z

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Ive got that one. LOTS of
Ive got that one. LOTS of fun projects… if I only had more land to play with the toys.

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Well, cool good to hear that
Well, cool good to hear that you’re alive Zanth! But maybe not for long with the backyard booms. Build a robot to set them off!

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Yeah, kinda hard for me as

Yeah, kinda hard for me as well considering I’m in an apartment complex.

Just found out the hub’s boss has a cabin on a lake in the middle of nowhere, so the tinkering has started up again.