Shop Class: [3/20]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac opens the doors to shop class and the familiar scene of the virtual junkyard greets the students.

"Today kids I want you to build a security system for your dorm room that will either trap or warn you of intruders. Use any materials you might find here in the junk yard."

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[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova wanted to build a security system that could be set to 'puree'.

Unfortunately, her skills were not that 1337 well-developed, so she settled for rattling around the junkyard in search of ideas.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam's first acquisition was an old fishing pole. She stripped the line from the reel and ran it along the bottom of the doorframe, about an inch from the floor, then an inch from the top of the frame.

Next, she began sprinkling sawdust and metal filings around the perimeter of the room, leaving a light coating on the floor.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John wonders if he should go for the easy setup.

And then he gets an idea.

Pulling a four Twinkies from his bag, he sets the just inside the door. When an intruder opens the door, they're gonna step on the Twinkies. Thus, they will now squeak and slip and maybe even say 'ewww.' While they're blindly stumbling around with Twinkie on their shoe, they'll hit a thin trip wire just beyond the Twinkies and go down.

John then rigs the trip wire to, when activate, drop dirty socks onto the intruder.

Catch them with the gross out!

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky built a crude fragmentation grenade with a trip wire. Mac hadn't said that the intruders had to be unharmed when they were trapped.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia completely and totally handwaved a mostly successful assignment because it's 1:30 am, and her mun is exhausted and can't think of anything creative right now.

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander vaguely considers the idea of putting a sign that says "Please remove shoes before entering" on the door, then sprinkling carpet tacks across the floor inside, but that wouldn't take care of the impolite burglars, which was probably a reasonably large chunk of 'em. Or rampaging demons, except for vampires and Effluviars.

Plus he figures actually doing something complicated would a) make him look busy and b) make him actually be busy, both of which seems like a good idea.

So he sets up an elaborate Rube-Goldberg contraption involving hubcaps, sandpaper, a stray fish-hook, piano wire, a stick of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum, a paperclip, a bottle of leftover glitter from the set-making supplies, and three rolls of duct tape.

It fails rather unspectactularly; the cap doesn't quite come off the glitter bottle when it should, there's a thud instead of a splish, and the worst the system would do in a real-life emergency would be to give your impolite burglar sparkly shoes as he walked around and stole all your stuff.

Xander shrugs, and starts sweeping up the glitter from the floor.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Too lazy to switch logins. Mac gives you an A+ for the assignment because you're the first person to mention Rube Goldberg]

[02maxwell.livejournal.com]

Duo rigs up a trip wire to set off an alarm. He's tempted to have it remote-start his Gundam, too, but thinks that having a 60-foot Mobile Suit landing next to the dorm if Hamlet accidentally sets off the alarm is probably not a good idea.

[stykera]

Stark kicks LJ for eating this comment this first 3 or 4 times. grr. decides to go for a warning system instead of a trap.

A couple of paint cans (one empty, one not so much), a metal trash can lid, and some piano wire tossed together made a servicable warning system. The lid went behind the door to make a satisfying crash. Some piano wire attached to the paint can would tip it over if the wire was moved, so if the noise didn't scare whoever the intruder was off, the paint dumped on them would at least make them easier to find later. A quick test with the empty can not only tipped the bucket over, but dropped it right where an intruder's head would probably be. Stark shrugged and decided that was close enough.

As a finishing touch, he wrote "This is MY room" on the mostly-empty paint can. Because boundaries are important.