Fish tank table.  c. 1987.  Photo: 2012.  I designed and built this in high school shop class when the teacher was out all semester and I was bored.  My family needed a better place for the fish tank, so I built one.

Made entirely of 1x8 pine joined in various ways (plus the diagonal supports).  If I had to do it all over again, I would leave out the screws.

Plans for fish tank table.  c. 1987.

"The Boinger" water cannon.  8 May 1988.  Just an idea I had to see if I could propel a good amount of water some distance with only human power.  I works pretty well but is only a one-shot deal.  Reloads like a syringe.  It is essentially just a big cork gun and is a little dangerous as such.

Then came Super Soakers and this was instantly outclassed.

The class project was to design a town.  I volunteered to design the bridges.  After spending way too much time digging through books on bridge building at the university library, I settled on box girder bridges to minimize the obstruction to the Colorado views.  The main bridge spans an unrealistic 4000 feet (almost as long as Golden Gate's span of 4200 feet) for a bridge of this type.  But is was an imaginary bridge built of expensive lightweight materials for an imaginary town.