LEGO K12 Outreach with Linda Hamilton

Egg Fling

April 3, 2007

Village of Barboursville 3rd grade TAG built egg flingers from the Simple Machine sets
starting with the sturdy base they used for their swings.

They used the strain energy from a rubber band.

They pulled out the axle used as a catch.

Miller 3rd grade TAG built egg flingers.
The eggs could go very far. The challenge was to get it to go exactly in the basket.

That worked.

But it was safer to have the basket in a corner so that the eggs did not go where people were.

http://netapps.marshall.edu/lego/summer98/legop2.htm
http://netapps.marshall.edu/lego/Bville0304/19Feb04EggFling/19Feb04EggFling.htm
http://netapps.marshall.edu/lego/Bville0607/22Mar07Egg/22Mar07eggFlinger.html#Bville
http://netapps.marshall.edu/lego/fatima/26March01/EggIntoBasket.htm

LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton hamilton@marshall.edu
With support from
NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium.

and

Webpages and pictures on http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO

Web camera on http://legocamera.marshall.edu

Teleoperate LEGO CITY at http://lego.marshall.edu

NASA site of Remote Sensing on http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu

Egg Flinger

The next two days were projects without instructions.
This project was to make a flinger that would get an egg into a bucket.
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