With Rubber Band Engineer, build slingshot-powered rockets, rubber band rifles, catapults, and more guerrilla gadgets from paper clips, pencils, paint stirrers, and rubber bands.
With Rubber Band Engineer, build slingshot-powered rockets, rubber band rifles, catapults, and more guerrilla gadgets from paper clips, pencils, paint stirrers, and rubber bands.
Lance Akiyama is the author of four books in Rockport's Engineer series: Rubber Band Engineer; Duct Tape Engineer; Launchers, Lobbers, and Rockets Engineer; and The Zoom, Fly, Bolt, Blast STEAM Handbook. Lance is the Science Curriculum Manager for Galileo Learning (STEAM camps for Pre-K to 8th grade), for which he designs STEAM-based lessons and projects for K–8 students. He has been developing hands-on engineering projects for kids since 2011 and working in education since 2006. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Introduction: Notes from a Rubber-Band Tinkerer
Chapter 1: Handheld Shooters Many-Thing Shooter PVC Slingshot Rifle Crossbow Bow and Arrow Chapter 2: Mini Siege Engines Pyramid Catapult Enhanced Mousetrap Catapult Floating Arm Trebuchet Da Vinci Catapult Chapter 3: Hydraulic and Pneumatic Power Pneumatic Magic Box Extending Grabber Robot Arm Hydraulic Fighting Robots Chapter 4: Flight Improvised Darts Slingshot Rocket Rubber Band Helicopter Chapter 5: Other Gadgets & Contraptions 1. Paper Plane Launcher 2. Wire Loop Game 3. Propeller-Powered Car
