Homemade rocketship treehouse
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homemade rocketship treehouse
SHOW HN2023
410points
53comments
#75of 3,109 in 2023
Top 3%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
20 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.62.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Inspiring and magical project for kids
From 3 comments
Man I love this. As a kid my dad had a friend that had some type of old industrial control interface, in unpainted sheet metal, he had wired up that just did blinkenlights. Had a…
Severian on HNProjects like this make life magic for little kids. I don't have the time/skill/patience for something of this scale, but I love doing little projects that make life magic for…
andrewstuart on HNHonestly, this thing inspired my imagination more than I could have imagined. I had so much fun that I ended up building dozens more embedded systems projects, and eventually…
uscjeremy on HN
Impressive creativity and craftsmanship
From 2 comments
I don't even have kids yet and I already feel bad for them! On a more serious note, what an incredible project. There's all the very obvious stuff -- the creativity, the learning…
ChicagoBoy11 on HNThis is a really cool project. A serious amount of creativity and love obviously went into it. BTW If you kids are interested in space, consider trying some model rocketry. I…
hermitcrab on HN
Requests
Place the rocket in a public park or event
From 3 comments
This is probably a completely unrealistic goal for a wide variety of reasons, but it would be amazing to have something like this in a public park. I could also imagine going on…
elihu on HNHey, amazing work! It'd be awesome to see this in the solstice parade, or as an installation at the end site for Solstice or Luminata. I help run both events and we would be…
debatem1 on HNI do public art and events all the time and that looks pretty feasible to me. At least, I'm pretty confident we could have it roam around Seattle.
debatem1 on HN
Questions
Are there recent photos or video of the rocket?
From 1 comment
This is incredible. Is there any more recent photos/video of how it looks now?
detrites on HN