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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·6 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-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 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-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoyeah. Gotta be careful with them. even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.
minus-squarejawa21@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 months agoI’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoCannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 months agobtw, it’s a rite of passage.
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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.
I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
Cannons are fun too.
btw, it’s a rite of passage.
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