Rubber Band Ping Pong Launcher

Rubber band ping pong launcher.

Rubber band ping pong launcher.

Put your ping pong ball launcher together. Today i am going to show you how to make a ping pong launcher out of rubber bands. Client company. Now that we have our pilot holes we can put the larger holes in place for our eye screw and for the machine screw that s going to hold the pvc cradle in place.

The ping pong projector. If you can t find a rubber band long enough for the launcher you can loop several smaller ones together. Ping pong ball launcher. Here s an easy to make ping pong ball launcher that you can build from stuff you may have laying around your house.

We had a long arm with a rubber band hooked up to poles at the end of the arm for tentioning the rubber band with. I hope you can enjoy this rubber band ping pong launcher. Rubber band s about 1 4 wide a pocketful of pingpong balls. All right so we re drilling our pilot holes in the aluminum bar that s going to launch the ping pong ball and that s a 3 32 bit there.

Loop a 64 rubber band through each hold on the ping pong ball holder and then loop it through itself so it is securely attached. Attach the remaining end of the rubber band to the other side of the paper clips bending loops to secure it like in the previous step. Putting your ping pong ball launcher together is pretty easy once you have all the pieces hammered in. Make it an experiment.

How we changed the design. And we had a track on the arm that the ping pong ball ran on for launching. The other is that the bead strikes the lid when you release it which causes the rubber bands to come to an abrupt stop releasing the ping pong ball. Rubber band powered vehicle.

This would be a great project to do with a class or a group. Design build and test a rubber band powered vehicle which will carry a load the greatest distance. You can get a clean release with the bead which prevents taking energy away from the rubber bands. It is also very fun to play with.

Design build and test a ping pong ball launcher powered by a common household mousetrap that will propel as many ping pong balls as possible into a target.