Design Squad
Air Cannon
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Send a pom-pom flying with an air cannon you can build using bottles, bags, balloons and even juice boxes. How far will your air cannon launch a pom-pom?
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Design Squad
Air Cannon
Clip | 2m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Send a pom-pom flying with an air cannon you can build using bottles, bags, balloons and even juice boxes. How far will your air cannon launch a pom-pom?
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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I'm Nate from Design Squad, and I'm here with: We're making air cannons.
KIDS: Oh...!
This version of the air cannon uses a plastic bag to hold some air.
SHANE: It's a cup that we duct-taped a bag around, and when you put a pompom in the hole, the pompom will block the hole, and then when you squeeze the bag, it'll push air out of the hole.
When that pressure gets behind the projectile, poof!
Boom!
Mia's got a nice, simple version of the air cannon setup.
Just a plastic bottle.
To make the pompom come out, you need pressure.
And to make the pressure, you pound it.
(all laughing) This air cannon is made from a juice box.
We put tape over on this end to seal it up so air won't escape there, and then we punched a hole here where there's a pompom.
And then you stomp on it.
I'm going to try to catch the pompom after I launch it.
No!
I got it!
NATE: This version of the air cannon uses a plastic bottle with the back end cut off.
Over the back end is stretched a piece of a balloon.
So that creates the pressure wave when Camille pulls back the balloon and lets it snap forward.
This is a bag.
The bag is loaded with a bunch of pompoms that will all come out in one blast.
(laughing) NATE: That was amazing!
We're using our air cannons to try to get our pompoms into the bucket.
NATE: Close.
Oh!
(chuckling) SHANE: Yeah!
Instructions to make your own air cannon are on the Design Squad website.
Yeah!
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