Author Archives: ChaosTheEngineer

About a week ago, I finished everything in the tank to work with an engine. Then yesterday, my dad called one of his friends who owns a hobby store and asked about nitro engines. He said that nitro engines of the size I need wouldn’t have enough power to move it, and that electric motorsContinue reading “A Stronger Motor”

Every year since we moved up here, the snow comes a month after the year before. The year we moved up here, it started snowing late November. Then the next year it was in December, then last year it was a little over a foot of snow in the second week of January. So farContinue reading “Snow”

Ever since I made my tank last year, I haven’t been able to make it drive correctly. With the old Lego Power Functions XL motors from 2009, some motors are slower than others so it tends to go to one side a little bit when driving straight. To get it to drive with the NerfContinue reading “Nitro Engines”

This year for halloween, two of my younger brothers are making a haunted house on our front porch. They are going to enclose the porch with big plastic sheets to make it dark. We also got a fog machine this year for it. One of them is going to sit in a chair in theContinue reading “Haunted House”

I just read a book called George Washington Spymaster. It was written by Thomas B Allen. It was about how George Washington out spied the British during the American Revolution. The book talks about the methods the American spies used to trick the British during the Revolutionary War. One instance was when the Americans leakedContinue reading “George Washington Spymaster”

A few weeks ago, our parents started looking to sell our old trailer that we don’t fit in anymore and get a motorhome. Our mom’s family used to travel all over the place. A few weeks before that, I remembered the name Big Brutus but didn’t remember what it went to. So I looked itContinue reading “Big Brutus”

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”