This is pretty representative of my aesthetic in high school. I made this as part of a presentation about the Civil War. It was meant to demonstrate, in a compressed scale, the way civil war soldiers would have to lob their bullets at the enemy. The guns didn't have enough power to aim directly at the target even at short distances. They would have to aim high and arc it to hit anything like you would with a catapult.

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So I built a catapult. The ammunition consisted of several Koosh balls. It's made out of a few pieces of wood, a rat trap, elastic tubing, dowel rod, a small box, popsicle sticks and hot glue.

The dowels weren't strong enough so I whipped out a little lamination action.

Never ever underestimate hot glue at a structural material. I don't need any nails. Throw a few sticks worth of hot glue on there and things will be dandy. Screw being archival, this is business.

Even then I was thinking about the design of the interaction. Finger tracings didn't do a whole lot of good.

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