Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
Make Your Own Water Rockets

Type: Demonstration Workshop

Topic(s): Engineering

Tags: rocketry plumbing


Build a "Coney" back-gliding water rocket from a plastic bottle and cardboard. Learn to construct simple and complex launchers, fins, and nosecones. Materials supplied.

Web site: http://lockup.org/blog/category/water-rockets/

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About the Maker(s)

Morgan Woodson
Morgan Woodson is the father of one boy who prefers fossils to rockets. His garage has an 8x6 foot hole in the side of it. Morgan is from Rhode Island, went to college in Iowa and now lives in Ben Lomond in the hills above Santa Cruz. He's a member of the iPod Playback Firmware team at Apple. Morgan has boiled a skull in washing soda.