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DIY: Fireball Trebuchet

Written by Paul Strauss | January 22, 2009

Texan Mark Winkler builds a full-scale trebuchet, calls it “Mongo,” uses it to hurl sixteen pound balls of fire at the Maker Faire, and one of his friends still has the nerve to ask, “Why?”