Community Construction Challenge

Got a project? Want some help, ideas, advice, or just want to get the word out? This is your place.
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Postby Luminaflare » 2009.05.27 (13:45)

Welcome one and all to the Community Construction Challenge, once a week I will submit a new construction challenge to the community. Once the week is over the submissions will be rated in ingenuity, aesthetics, functionality and community popularity (Poll). You are allowed to use any construction material which is not listed as banned for that week but you must make the challenge yourself without following instructions. You may post your submission (With pictures and/or video) in to the topic or PM it to me if you want to keep it private till the challenge is over. Initially the competition will run for 10 rounds and whomever has the highest score at the end will receive a prize, 2nd and 3rd place will get sigbars (Yes this means the first place prize is actually going to cost money.).



Challenges:

Week 1
Project: Rubber band gun
Description: Some form of contraption which can fire rubber bands. Functionality will be scored on ease of use, accuracy at 20 inches, number of shots fired before a reload is needed and reload mechanism (If any). There are no aesthetic requirements.
Restricted materials: None
Round time: 2 weeks from May 30th
Last edited by Luminaflare on 2009.05.30 (12:04), edited 3 times in total.

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Postby EdoI » 2009.05.28 (18:58)

Luminaflare wrote:Rubber band gun
Explain.

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Postby Luminaflare » 2009.05.28 (21:18)

EdoI wrote:
Luminaflare wrote:Rubber band gun
Explain.
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Postby Fraxtil » 2009.05.28 (22:40)

I can make a rubber band gun with my index finger and thumb. Do I win?

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Postby Luminaflare » 2009.05.28 (23:42)

It's not that aesthetic though :P

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Postby T3chno » 2009.05.29 (03:55)

maestro is too experienced with rubber bands. We shall all lose here.
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Postby LittleViking » 2009.05.29 (05:21)

Luminaflare wrote:Week 1
Project: Rubber band gun
Materials band: Rubber
Fixed.
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Postby esay » 2009.05.30 (07:18)

Haha. I can remember when we used to have Rubber-band guns made from a small pipe and the finger from a rubber glove, with BBs as Bullets. Good times. :)

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Postby Luminaflare » 2009.05.30 (11:52)

Ok I get the point from the PMs and post here, I'll elaborate and what the challenge is more.

EDIT: Updated first post and restarted the round so it will go from today.

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Postby Zephyr » 2009.06.02 (06:24)

This sounds great, does it need to fire rubber bands, or can it use rubber bands to fire some other type of projectile?
If I buy a rubber band gun, does it count? And if it dosen't, can I buy one and modify it?
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Postby Luminaflare » 2009.06.03 (10:55)

In the main description it says fire rubber bands, so it should fire rubber bands.

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Postby EdoI » 2009.06.27 (15:00)

So...?

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Postby Tunco » 2009.06.27 (15:43)

Ackmest Dansam wrote:In the main description it says fire rubber bands, so it should fire rubber bands.
EdoI wrote:So...?
It's a typo.

Ok?
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Postby EdoI » 2009.06.28 (14:30)

Tunco123 wrote:
Ackmest Dansam wrote:In the main description it says fire rubber bands, so it should fire rubber bands.
EdoI wrote:So...?
It's a typo.

Ok?
Ah, I wasn't talking about that. I asked what's going on with the competition, last post was 25 days ago, and the deadline was eight days ago.

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Postby zan3011 » 2009.07.12 (20:07)

ive made a contraption out of ood and im thinking of covering it with a plastic shell with space for the rubber band to be fired out of, what do you think of this, any good? i made the initial contraption a couple of years ago.
i will post a picture of it later on, will be back!
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Postby Luminaflare » 2009.07.13 (14:51)

Ah, right yeah. Due to complete lack of submissions I kinda gave up on this.


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