Rubber Band Powered Crossbow

The crossbow is complete.

Rubber band powered crossbow.

Build your own crossbow inspired launcher. You will also be able to continuously shoot and load up to 40 steel balls at once. Riley elwood asked can you try to make a rubber band powered cross bow. The original bow is easily modified to create this crossbow.

More precisely you will get to shoot up to 30 to 50 meters with ammo or 20 to 30 meters if you are fishing with a shaft. Mar 13 2017 explore dale chesney s board automatic crossbow on pinterest. It seemed appropriate to share my experiences regarding rubber in general. Don t tape the rubber band to the body of the crossbow or you don t be able to draw it back.

Thingiverse is a universe of things. Be very careful with this toy it can be very dangerous so please do not shoot at anyone or yourself. I decided to contribute to that forum. You can adjust the power of the crossbow by simply changing out the rubber band for a stronger one.

If you decide to copy this please take care as you can cause serious injury even with the small weak rubber bands i used. I think it came out pretty good. Download files and build them with your 3d printer laser cutter or cnc. If you want you can take a square of cardboard or fold over a piece of paper a few times and tape it around the rubber band to improve cradle.

This project will inspire kids to learn more about engineering art and physics all while having a ton of fun. See more ideas about crossbow archery bows archery. The coolest project using craft sticks. It comes with the powerful rubber bands which make it possible to shoot very accurately at a long distance.

They started a new subforum for slingshot crossbows. I recently found the arbalist guild forum a meeting place for crossbow builders. Read the post at the arbalist. The lower end of the stirrer should be between and 6mm and 1cm from the top of the shaft.

You can use the clothespin as a simplified trigger for the rubber band based design.