{"id":3044,"date":"2007-03-08T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2007\/03\/08\/beer-cat-watch-the-spray\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:56:03","slug":"beer-cat-watch-the-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/03\/08\/beer-cat-watch-the-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Cat – Watch the Spray"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RALEIGH, N.C. — When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle.
\n So the engineering graduate built himself a contraption to help remind him of campus life: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.<\/p>\n

"I conceived it right after I got out,” said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn’t want to let go of.”<\/p>\n

It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing machine, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.<\/p>\n

from the Charleston Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n

Video: see the Catapult in action <\/a>(from Metacafe)<\/p>\n

And Dukies wonder why they are anually overlooked in the Rhodes Scholarships awards…..<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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