and [Tom Stanton]’s latest trebuchet design puts a different spin on launching projectiles at speed. The design takes advantage of the flywheel as an energy storage device. The flywheel is spun ...

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys riff on the hardware hacks that took the Internet by storm this week. Machining siege weapons out of aluminum? If they can throw a tennis ball at ...

the trebuchet, or catapult competition between Aptos High School students and those from Scotts Valley High School who had designed a flywheel trebuchet. “Aptos High has so many trees around it ...