• FuglyDuckEnglish
    32•8 hours ago

    I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.

    I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)

    It’s like, a right of passage or something.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 hour ago

      I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        1•52 minutes ago

        The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.

        Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….

        • @[email protected]English
          2•50 minutes ago

          No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.

          • FuglyDuckEnglish
            2•46 minutes ago

            Yeah. You’re not allowed to stuff Easter eggs for Easter.

            Also, we’ll add “get the Halloween candy”, too. Probably give people apple 2’s or something,

    • @[email protected]English
      14•7 hours ago

      I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        5•7 hours ago

        yeah. Gotta be careful with them.

        even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.

    • J'Pol English
      8•7 hours ago

      I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.