RE: Tell Me What You See | Fun Science Activity (Optics)
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Periscopes are great fun XD back when the kids were little there was one on their cubby house that could detach, and it would often just end up in random places as they'd pull it off the cubby and play games that involved looking around the corners of the house.
A couple of years ago we went to Scitech and one of their persistent activities is a bunch of pipes, some with mirrors on them, that you can make varying length periscopes from. My eldest spent an inordinate amount of time on this activity as he randomly decided that he wanted his periscope to go through all four of the holes.
It was a bit of a puzzle to solve as he had to double the periscope back along itself to get through one of the holes XD but he succeeded (using up every single part that was available). It was just sad that I couldn't get any good shots down it :<
Guess your mirrors were cardboard to prevent them from breaking in transit (and/or avoid lawsuits from Knomiras), and you got some amusing reflections out of it XD
Did you manage to get actual mirrors for another periscope to compare?
Well look at that periscope he built. Definitely next level! <3
We still need to make one with actual mirrors, perhaps level it up a bit in terms of structure too. 🤔 The cardboard "mirrors" are really funny, it gives distorted reflections. haha
Oh with the cardboard mirrors, if you haven't already, play around with them, see what happens when you push the edges inwards or outwards or bend corners away from or towards each other :)
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