April 11, 2005

A penny for your thoughts...sixteen pennies for a catilevered structure. Mitch Fincher shows how you can build bridges, spirals, and domes out of pennies.
posted by wo mu si 19 years ago
  • )))!!!
  • Pennies tend to have a natural coating of sticky crud, which helps bind the structures together better. The best ones are those that have been sitting in your car where you usually keep the Taco Bell drinks.
  • Now that was nifty. I want a spiral. Must start saving pennies again.
  • Hah! One of the people I worked with long ago was building a robot to stack pennies. Easy puzzle: starting from a base of 1 penny, what is the farthest horizontal point you can reach by stacking n pennies on that first penny?
  • Mitch's got a bit too much free time on his hands.
  • [nice one!]
  • Squid... I don't know.....stacking pennies is probably about as productive as hitting "reload" on the Monkeyfilter page all day! :)
  • Ah, finally a good use for that bowl with more than 4 kg of Canadian pennies that my former roommate left behind! (For the non-metric readers) Mmm, I just did some calulations with a scale and that's more than 16 dollars. I'm rich!
  • The SMALL-CHANGE AVENGER! will defeat you all, penny-architects! Your bridges will be broken, your columns will topple, your piggy banks will be shattered! Build not with pennies, but with strong concrete and steel! Eeee!
  • That's pretty much what I mean, HuronBob. I say that we find a nice gal, or guy for Mitch Fincher. I'm guessing he hasn't been laid in a coons age. Too busy playing with his pennies (hey, a new slang word for masterbation).
  • That was damn good. Tasty post!