{"id":386,"date":"2026-01-22T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/?p=386"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:25:14","slug":"potato-cannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Potato Cannon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Freshman year of high school, I built a potato cannon. It wasn&#8217;t great. The biggest issues were: the lack of a solenoid valve, and the tiny air chamber. I affectionately referred to it as &#8220;The doohicky.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my Sophomore year, I had to rebuild it for a friend&#8217;s final project. I gave it a better air chamber using PVC and a Schrader valve from a bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, for my Junior year of high school, I was lucky enough to find a GIANT piece of PVC pipe at the dump that I turned into a bigger air chamber. Now, when I shoot it the recoil feels pretty impressive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I expect for my senior year, I will be building something capable of accelerating a projectile to escape velocity ;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I built a potato cannon\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6G7AiTbU9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Freshman year of high school, I built a potato cannon. It wasn&#8217;t great. The biggest issues were: the lack of a solenoid valve, and the tiny air chamber. I affectionately referred to it as &#8220;The doohicky.&#8221; For my Sophomore year, I had to rebuild it for a friend&#8217;s final project. I gave it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}