{"id":5483,"date":"2011-03-27T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/27\/trebuchets-for-everybody\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:18:48","slug":"trebuchets-for-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/27\/trebuchets-for-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Trebuchets for Everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasional commenter Evan Murphy emailed to bring my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/siegetoys.com\/\">Siege Toys<\/a>, a new venture that aims to make desktop snap-together wooden trebuchets. Why? Because medieval siege warfare engines are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1803756771\/trebuchette-the-snap-together-desktop-trebuchet\">looking for funding via Kickstarter<\/a>, so if you&#8217;ve ever wanted your very own trebuchet, go place a pre-order. And lest you think this is a complete lark, their web page includes this design note:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We spent a solid month and a half adjusting the prototype after figuring out the rough dimensions on a 4th-order runge-kutta simulator that I wrote a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you know, these are <em>scientifically designed<\/em> trebuchets, too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasional commenter Evan Murphy emailed to bring my attention to Siege Toys, a new venture that aims to make desktop snap-together wooden trebuchets. Why? Because medieval siege warfare engines are awesome. They&#8217;re looking for funding via Kickstarter, so if you&#8217;ve ever wanted your very own trebuchet, go place a pre-order. And lest you think this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/27\/trebuchets-for-everybody\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trebuchets for Everybody!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}