52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders

From one of the most popular project channels on YouTube comes a how-to book on building things that go boom.

Grant Thompson, "The King of Random," has created one of the most popular project channels on YouTube, featuring awesome videos such as How to Make a Laser Assisted Blowgun and Assassin’s Micro Crossbow. He currently has almost 10 million subscribers, posts 5 times a week, and averages over 40 million views a month.

Partnering with Grant is Ted Slampyak, the artist behind the #1 New York Times bestseller 100 Deadly Skills.

52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders is a guide that enables ordinary folks to build an impressive arsenal of projects. These crafts combine some of Grant’s most popular projects—Matchbox Rockets, Pocket Slingshot Super Shooters, Proto-Putty, Ninja Balls, Mini Matchstick Guns, The Clothespin Pocket Pistol—with many new ones, providing clear instructions on how to build them step-by-step.

Broken down into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced sections, 52 Random Weekend Projects is loaded with truly amazing projects, including:

- Mousetrap Handgun
- Mini Solar Scorcher
- Air Vortex Canon
- Air Mounted Skewer Shooter
- Paracord Bullwhip
- Bottle Cap Party Whistle
- Ninja Stress Balls
- Tablecloth Parachute
- Skyblaster Slingshot

And many more!

ISBN-13: 9781250184504

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Publication Date: 03-10-2020

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

The King of Random has created one of the most popular project channels on YouTube. It currently has more than twelve million subscribers, posts five times a week, and averages over forty million views a month. Ted Slampyak is a cartoonist and illustrator for the #1 New York Times bestseller 100 Deadly Skills. He is the artist contributor to the blog the Art of Manliness.

Table of Contents

SECTION ONE: EASY PROJECTS

1. Clothes Pin Gun
2. Matchbox Rocket
3. Nunchucks
4. Mini RPG
5. Airsoft Grenades
6. Pocket Slingshot
7. Magic Mud
8. Bath Bombs
9. Proto Putty
10. Soda Cap Container
11. Ninja Stress Balls
12. Tablecloth Parachute
13. Sky Balls
14. World’s Simplest Rubber Band Hand Gun
15. Ninja Turtle Ooze
16. Emergency Water Filter
17. Coconut Rope
18. Soda Can Tab Chains
19. Penny Batteries
20. Sandwich Bag Fire Starter
21. Gum Wrapper Fire Starter
22. Magic Sand
23. Paint Stick Boomerang
24. Invisible Ink
25. Snap Bands
26. Micro Long Bow

SECTION TWO: INTERMEDIATE PROJECTS

27. Arm Mounted Skewer Shooter
28. Assassin’s Micro Crossbow
29. Laser Guided Blowgun
30. Skyblaster Slingshot
31. Mini Solar Scorcher
32. Mousetrap Handgun
33. Paracord Bullwhip
34. Bottle Cap Party Whistle
35. Bitty-Q
36. Matchbox Fuse Ignitor
37. Helium Cloud Generator
38. Rocket Igniters
39. Coat Hanger Grappling Gun
40. Ferro Fluid
41. Marshmallow Gun

SECTION THREE: ADVANCED PROJECTS

42. Semiautomatic Marshmallow Blaster
43. Superhero Shuriken (DIY Batarang)
44. Smoke Ring Shooter
45. Mini Metal Foundry
46. Puzzle Box
47. T-Shirt Cannon
48. Clay from Dirt
49. Giant Flaming Vortex Fountain
50. Cardboard Box Dehydrator
51. Carbonated Ice Cream
52. Handheld Rocket Rifle

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