Members from the London Hackerspace recently got a little on-air time with a ping pong ball launcher. They were invited to build something for the Click show on BBC. The launcher that they built ...

Case in point, this ping-pong ball launcher that can put holes in a sheet of OSB. The projectile is made more lethal because the ball has been injected with water to dramatically increase the density.

distance from the launcher? Here is a plot of speed vs ... a constant force rather than one that decreases as the ping pong ball slows down. You can see that even increasing the launch speed ...

STEP 1: Using the turkey baster, engineer a turkey baster ping-pong ball launcher that will shoot a ping-pong ball at least 15 feet. Using the engineering design process, which is a series of ...

“We chose a ping-pong ball launcher because we thought the project would give the students a real idea of what engineering is all about,” said Tom Edwards, the veteran engineer who taught the ...

BOWMANVILLE — So here’s the deal: Take a ping-pong ball, a bunch of ordinary materials like wood, screws and elastic bands, and launch said ping-pong ball 25 metres. And you’ve got 75 minutes to do it ...

STEP 1: Using the turkey baster, engineer a turkey-baster ping-pong ball launcher that will shoot a ping-pong ball at least 15 feet. Using the engineering design process, which is a series of ...