Shop Class #8: Pumpkin Madness

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

As the students enter into the Danger Room Shop, they find that it has been transformed into a large field. On one side of a field is a barn with a large bullseye painted on it. On the other side of the field a series of markers, much like you would see at a golf driving range.

Everyone's flinger is setup where they left it and a large pile of pumpkins sits next to each one.

Mac tosses a pumpkin in the air with a grin.

"Okay kids... Let's have some fun."

((OOC: Read the following posts for what to do.))

Comments

Re: Describe your Machine

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam pulled her machine out and placed it in the appropriate spot. Having no illusions about who would be cleaning up the pumpkin guts after class, she'd worn her oldest jeans and one of Jack's shirts. "What I've got here is kind of like a combination of a motorized tetherball pole and old-fashioned sling."

She placed the lotion in the basket pumpkin in the duct tape sling and positioned it carefully as she demonstrated. "The lawnmower engine spins the pole, which in turns spins the pumpkin in its duct tape sling, which is attached to the pole using aircraft cable. When the centrifugal force gets to be too much and too strong, the cotter pin," she pointed to it, "from the old exercise bike will fail from the stress and release the pumpkin."

Sam studied her device carefully. "Inertia should take care of the rest."

Re: Describe your Machine

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Wow. Very nice. Do you have any control of when the pumpkin is released?"

Re: Describe your Machine

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Well, I checked the specs on the cotter pins, figured out the rate of speed of the lawnmower motor, and adjusted the tension on the aircraft cable using some information I found in the library, but if these parts don't match those specs or I calculated wrong, then, no, I guess I don't."

Re: Describe your Machine

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

[OOC: BTW - The lotion in the basket thing? *Iz ded*]

Re: Describe your Machine

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

_{[[*laughing at the lotion, plus the specs bit below*]]}