Designing and building a rubber band powered plane for under £5

My first thought when thinking of an efficient glider is the balsa wood planes with structural techniques similar to real planes, with longerons and airfoil profiles throughout the wings. I started here, 3d printing some basic airfoils to act as struts to get a general shape of a wing through wrap…

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Designing my own physics-based gym product

A common question I see asked in the gym is 'How many reps was that?' When you are pushing your body to the limits of what it can do, it is pretty much impossible to count the number of times you do an exercise, especially near the end of the workout. There are definitely devices that can …

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Coding a 2 player arcade game in 2 days.

During some lessons, my friend and I got so bored that we created a variant of Tic Tac Toe. The largest issue with tic-tac-toe is that it is too easy to not have a winner. There are 3 outcomes to any game: draw, nought win, or crosses win. Unless you are playing a sped-up version, where each player …

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