Popsicle Stick Bridge Testing

[darkendjoker24309]

i made one with a lot less that help 190.. what class was this? ours was engineering and architecture so thats why we knew as much as we did. the secret is triangles.

[spinereto]

@darkendjoker24309 This was for a grade 11 science class.

[koolasvegan]

Amazing bridges.... wish I could build a bridge that cool!

[davkanik]

what kind of rope was used to test it - how was it held up?

[spinereto]

@davkanik It was just a regular plastic tie wrap that was attached to a metal bucket (the weights were placed in the bucket). The bridge was supported at both ends using the ends of a desk.

[randomrazr]

@spinereto

hey jjust wanted to update you

i managed to get my bridge to hold the max for the test, 100 pounds!!!

thanks for ur help

got 4++ :)

[spinereto]

@randomrazr nice to hear u did well, what did u use in the end, glue gun or carpenter's glue?

[aardvark3141]

cheap weighting system. Use computer controlled hydrolics

[davidsmithsqld]

what did u stick the paddle pop sticks together with

[spinereto]

carpenter's glue

[randomrazr]

is it ok to use hot melt glue guns to build a bridge to hold 100 pounds?

[spinereto]

if your allowed then go ahead, but for our bridge building we weren't allowed. We could only use carpenter's glue with absolutely no epoxy. So if you are allowed u can add epoxy to ur glue to make it much stronger.

[randomrazr]

oh ok cause i can use "any glue"

i was stuck between hot glue gun or capentors glue. what would u chose?

this is a stupid question but what is epoxy? lol is that like super glue?

[spinereto]

epoxy is super glue, i would either go with pure epoxy or mix carpenter's glue with a little bit of epoxy in it, but when you do you have to work fast, epoxy dries in 5 minutes or less.

[harrypotterfan6992]

In our class we have to make a bridge out of 2000 popsicle sticks and it has to support 300lbs for 2 minutes........ugh i think im gonna fail......MS. BEARD IS CRAZYYYYY!!!!!!!

[BowlingFreak218]

man the teacher was pretty leanient there. all you need is 1000 os easiyl hold 300 pounds

[snap634]

just make it a solid rectangle! lol it is still a bridge i will be like a solid block of wood lol

[pcunneen874]

@harrypotterfan6992 that is soo easy i made a bridge inn my class out of 150 sticks and plywood that held 290 and u have 2000 it should be so easy

[firstandlong]

in 6th grade we had to have a bridge with 15 popcicle sticks under 50 lbs. it was so easy

[dclaver2]

how does that second one beat you?

[FunWithPaper]

How long did it take to build?

[spinereto]

1 week

[onthetableproduction]

cool, i had to do this for i project and under all the weights i had (500 lbs) i still couldnt crush it, so i bult a pneumatic press thing from spare parts at my uncles repair shop, and it held until like 852 lbs!

[walikai]

my truss bridge held all the weights we had(150lb) and the heaviest kid in our class(around 250lb) at the same time and didn't budge

[sajank21]

i like the one with please touch don't

[Rapidpanda1st]

I would have somehow put the sticks on their sides, it's really hard to snap them that way... just a thought.

[ghostbunnie]

cool!!! i'm doing a bridge for science xtra credit!

[BlueJayHakims]

damn! make a video of the splinters that you got making that!

[warmpancaxe]

lol dont be so hard on urself.....its not your fault your stupid. lol jk.you look like you have a future in archetechture(did i spell that right??)

[warmpancaxe]

anyway nice bridges 5/5

[spinereto]

thank, i know our bridges are nothing compared to those real competitions, i just shot this video for the rest of my class and my friends to see the bridges we tested, and to laugh at ours!

[warmpancaxe]

dude u should see the tournaments they hold for bridgemaking......th bridges are so well made they have people stand on them and one dood had 4 people on his bridge because his bridge was called 998 and he got 1000 pounds on the biridge

[nikidizzi]

the second one was amazing

to see how thick it was it actually held a lot

[bikercc]

yo man nice vid i made a vid like yours of our bridges watch it ~by bikercc~

[PsiMonkey08]

wow now i noticed o_o i really did lose weight, from seeing myself a few months ago.

[PsiMonkey08]

lol

[rebzugo]

O guys! I went to this highschool bro! Nice bridges!

[spinereto]

Hey thanx!

[bikercc]

how much wait did the winning bridge hold

[spinereto]

it was around 80 something kilos, that's about 180 lbs.

[bikercc]

our bridge (my bridge) won with the weight of 130 pounds

[phamtruax]

nice