Author Archives: ChaosTheEngineer

A few months ago, I wanted to make my Nerf Soak Zooka hold more water because it only holds under half a gallon of water normally. It took me about a week to collect four one-gallon milk jugs and a bunch of caps. I started by cutting holes in the bottom and sides of theContinue reading “Super Soakers”

A few months ago, our friend from our church was at our house and made a little tank with my Lego Technic. He used buggy motors and a WIFI controller. Then one day, one of the motors stopped working. We lost the tank soon after. When we found the tank the motor just started smoking.Continue reading “My Friend’s Tank”

Since our cat, Angus, found us, he has been hunting mice at night. The housing development we live in was made on a farm and there is now a bunch of field mice. Every few nights, Angus will bring a dead mouse up into our room, sit there meowing for a little bit, and thenContinue reading “The Mouse”

Ever since I started making stuff out of Lego Technic, I’ve had a shortage of frame and panel pieces. Since we got our 3D printer, I’ve been trying to find 3D print files for those parts. Then yesterday, I found some print files for a bunch of Lego parts. I wanted to print the framesContinue reading “Making Lego Parts”

Since earlier least year, my grandfather and I have been trying to get his old wire welder to work. The welder used to be in his old plumbing shop, and we found that someone had used it a little bit and put in the wrong size wire. After we changed the wire to the rightContinue reading “Welding”

A while ago, papa call mom to ask her if we could help him put up the poles for the zipline. Ben got there first, and helped papa mix concrete to hold the pole in place. The plan was to pour some concrete, stick the zipline pole in it, and then put in a cardboardContinue reading “The Zipline”

We have lots of ornaments for our Christmas tree. We have a bunch of different Santas, normal ornaments, pictures, animals, and a bunch of random things from bells to Sylvester and Tweety from Looney Toons. We also got some DIY ornaments. We got Some DIY gem ornaments a few days ago. The ornaments are like color-by-number and haveContinue reading “Our Christmas Tree Ornaments”

Back on January 12th, I tried making a snow cat with Lego Technic. I got it to drive on snow but the motors didn’t work in the cold. Then I decided to turn it into a tank and put a Nerf gun on it. I finished the first version of the tank by the endContinue reading “My Lego Tank”

In our room, we each have shelves next to our beds for our stuff. My brother Hank filled his with random junk and old Star Wars Lego sets that he got from one of our 27-gallon buckets of Lego. He also likes to horde junk, like broken penguin ornaments, and use random things to makeContinue reading “Our Room”