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Video: Tips on Building Popsicle Bridges

Garrett Boon — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:50:34 +0000

Here is a video from youtube that is a young man giving advice on building popsicle stick bridges after building one of his own. I like his thought process although I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says. What do you think?

Notice when he says he sacrificed making triangles to add beauty to the bridge. Do you think this was acceptable? What would you have done?

Balsa Wood Bridge Test

Garrett Boon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:21:18 +0000

Here is a balsa wood bridge being tested to failure. You can tell how it breaks, which is pretty cool.

Large Pratt Truss Bridge Video

Garrett Boon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:47:51 +0000

This is a Pratt truss bridge that looks very well built. It is much larger than most of the models here. Notice the guys loading it are not wearing safety glasses, which is not recommended. I wonder why the bridge failed. It looked as if the right side of the bridge, the last two diagonal members were bending. That probably could have been fixed by making the beams into an L or T beam shape.

Japanese College Toothpick Bridge Competition

Garrett Boon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:32:15 +0000

This video has some excellent toothpick bridges. These bridges hold an incredible amount of weight before they break. You get to see it all on video. Take a look at the design concepts. Do you notice any trends?

New Video Category

Garrett Boon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:51:57 +0000

I am excited to bring to you my picks of the model bridge videos from youtube.com. All you have to do is go to the video category, http://www.garrettsbridges.com/videos and see for yourself. I have gone and watched a lot of videos and taken the ones I think are the best and complied them into playlists. You can watch the playlists directly on this website.If you have a video of making or breaking your model bridge, upload it to youtube and let me know about it. I might add it to the playlist for all to see.

General Bridge Videos

Garrett Boon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:50:37 +0000

Balsa Bridge Videos

Garrett Boon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:49:32 +0000

Highlighted balsa wood bridge videos from youtube.com.

Popsicle Stick Bridge Videos

Garrett Boon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:48:24 +0000

Here is a video playlist I created from youtube of selected popsicle bridge movies.

You can see a variety of testing methods used in these videos. You can also see a lot of people not wearing eye protection, which is not a good idea. Always wear eye protection when testing a bridge.

Bridge Builder Blues Video

Garrett Boon — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:47:28 +0000

After long last I have completed this music video of the song, Bridge Builder Blues.

To see the lyrics of this song, click here

Man Vs. Wild Spoof

Garrett Boon — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:38:19 +0000

My brother, cousin, and I were inspired to make this spoof of the TV show, Man Vs. Wild. We call this Man Vs. City. It is filmed mostly on the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge located in Charleston, South Carolina.

Man Vs. Wild is a show where a man, Bear Grylls, is dropped off in various wildernesses and is left to survive with extremely limited tools and supplies. Man Vs. City will be a lot more funny if you have actually seen the show, but even still you might find our spoof amusing. Unfortunately, we had a limited time to film this, as we were only visiting the bridge. I wish we could go back and re-shoot some of the scenes, but that just isn’t an option. We used my Canon A620 Powershot to film, so the quality isn’t the best. The wind blew very hard on top of the bridge, so that messed with some of the vocal recording.Without further delay, Man Vs. City.

Man Vs. City

If you like our spoof of Man Vs. Wild, please rate it on both Google Video and Youtube.