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title: Lego Crossbow
date: 2014-06-15
categories: projects
excerpt: I've been playing with Lego for as long as I can remember. This was one of my favorite builds and surprisingly still intact today.
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<sub>Written 10-8-19</sub>

Lego has always been a huge part of my childhood. According to my parents, I started playing with them ever since I was one year old. One of the things that I kept on building and reiterating were Lego guns. Being able to shoot at something has always been fascinating to me. I remember always working on making each Lego gun stronger and stronger. Eventually, I got tired of reloading them all the time, so I looked into designs that were easily reloadable. I never had the right pieces for more complex designs, so I eventually settled on a crossbow. Surprisingly, its still in one piece today. Here’s some old pictures.

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By loading in a nail after the Lego projectile, I was able to barely pierce an Altoids tin.

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Here’s a video of the crossbow in action.

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