Zachary Brumberger
$4 Hot Air Balloon
Up, up, and away, with Scotch tape and a painter’s drop cloth.
ON A JUNE AFTERNOON IN 1978, WHILE most normal kids were focused on sports or getting Dad’s car keys, I was busy readying another one of my quixotic contraptions, made out of junk-at-hand, for its maiden voyage. Assisted by a good friend who also enjoyed such nerdy pursuits, I stoked a fire inside an improvised burner and slowly, carefully inflated the large, fluttering balloon I had fashioned out of plastic drop cloths, Scotch ...
Get Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
