Giant Dominos
Giant dominos anyone?
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Giant Shuffle Puck or Slip 'n Slide
We could use BBs as a frictionless surface for a giant shuffle puck table. We'd have to figure out a way to prevent the BBs from becoming moop. Higher side walls might work, but a nice solution might be to use steel BBs and a rolling magnet for cleanup.
This would be well lit of course.
Oooor.. how about a "slip n slide"?
Destructible Godzilla Town Bins
IKEA bins work nicely as a stackable light source.
Update: While I did show that very simple set of blocks could be re-stacked via garage door opener, it has sever limitations:
- A 1/2 horsepower opener just barely has the strength to lift this single stack
- If the cables are allowed to twist, the opener cannot lift the stack. This makes the amount of freedom of the blocks to collapse pretty boring.
An electric winch can probably add a significant amount of power over a garage door opener, but the problem of twisting, or getting tangled with other stacks, seems like it needs a better solution than just more power. At some point the torque just gets dangerous to the equipment or people.
Destructible Godzilla Town Lift
Here's a rough design for a lifting mechanism that would allow the Destructible Godzilla Buildings to auto-assemble.
Here are the component parts identified. You can see that I've selected a garage door opener as the power source, but this could be an electric winch, or a some sort of human powered device (giant hamster wheel?) just as easily.
Hovercraft Bowling
Here's an idea for the oh-so-simple to construct leaf blower hovercraft. Originally I was thinking about building a giant air hockey table, but this seems like it might be more fun. We could probably cover the pins in fabric.
Update: I did manage to build the contours of a six-sided PVC bowling pin. It still needs some work to be stable, but I don't think it'll ever be strong enough to survive repeated falls, so I think I'll put it aside until we work on more decorative things.
Destructible Godzilla Town
Here's a concept for Burning Man: a small town you can smash to the ground. Ideally it would be self-lit, easy to break down, and easy to reassemble. Yoga blocks sounds nice, but finding large quantities of foam cheaply isn't easy. Falling 2x4s could be mitigated by a helmet, and a sense of adventure. :)
If we use guidewires and pulleys, we can build something that self assembles. It also allows us to easily build in gaps, requiring less material. Using PVC for spacers makes the whole thing lighter.
Individual LEDs would add to the city scape feel, and if we want avoid a ton of electrical work, maybe we can embed standard Christmas lights.
The weight of the wood alone will be significant, never mind the structure for lifting/assembling the blocks.
Hallow Face Illusion Hammock Rider
This is a concept for a Burning Man vehicle that uses the hallow face illusion.
Burning Man Pizza Oven
Here's the pizza oven I brought in 2013. We just stack the bricks in place around an outdoor turkey fryer, and it's ready to go.