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minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish49•2 months agoI don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet. I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,) It’s like, a right of passage or something.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 months agoI have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoyeah. Gotta be careful with them. even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoProbably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.
minus-squarejawa21linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoI’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoCannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
minus-squareBuglefingerslinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoIn CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoI’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.
I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.
I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)
It’s like, a right of passage or something.
I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out
yeah. Gotta be careful with them.
even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.
Probably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.
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I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
Cannons are fun too.
In CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made
I’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.
btw, it’s a rite of passage.
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