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Create a wooden object that hops after ten seconds using limited supplies.

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Create a ten inch magical house that hops using a tiny tiny rocket igniter. 

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Final Result: It hopped 4.7 inches!

ELABORATION

My hopper was inspired by Baba Yaga's house in Russian folklore and uses an escapement mechanism timer (seen in the middle), which took a lot more physics to build than I thought. 

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INSPIRATION

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