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Make your own District 9 Rifle

Joe L — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:41:46 +0000

Learn to build your own futuristic rifle straight out of the newly released District 9 movie. It’s definitely a unique design with plenty of wicked looking gadgets accessories. The author has a superb write up with details on how you can recreate the gun yourself or buy it on eBay. Be sure to check out our other DIY projectile and gun projects.

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At the top of the page is the project guide and above is the final product. The designer definitely did a great job on the details of the gun with the limited, basic resources used on the project. How cool would it be to have this hanging on your wall? Great project!

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The Ping Pong Gun with a Deadly Punch

Saikat — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:32:03 +0000

You wouldn’t want to be in close range of this beastly pneumatic ping pong ball gun. A ping pong ball is hardly destructive. But filled with water and propelled by compressed air, the tiny balls become painful projectiles. How painful? Well, the ball penetrated through plywood board and drywall.

The gun is long barreled and carries a magazine of 14 ping pong balls filled with water. The magazine is a short cylinder which holds the 14 shots and loads them one at a time into the long barrel with a press of a trigger. The second press of the trigger pneumatically pressurizes the gun. Press the trigger again and the air gets released through a valve. The sheer pneumatic force launches the ping pong ball.

Here’s a look at the parts of the gun:

The pneumatic ping pong gun made by Ron Kessinger runs off of a compressed air line and a standard wall outlet. See the gun in action in the top video and in three more videos.

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Build Yourself a Shoulder Fired Dry Ice Canon

Saikat — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:42:44 +0000

Everyone enjoys a good explosion or long distance launch. Learn to build your own canon project uses a simple ingredient – dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) which goes directly from solid to gas. The process called sublimation releases a lot of the built up pressure. Consider this…1 pound of dry ice turns to gas and gives you 250 liters of gas! That’s a lot of gas and a lot of latent propellant. The water fast tracks the form change of the dry ice creating an explosive propellant.

It’s essential to pay attention to the build of the canon itself with all that charged up gas. Over pressurization is a hazard. Note the careful mechanism of the canon in the video. The canon is entirely made up of steel and tightly welded together. A PET bottle is connected to the explosion chamber using a CNC adapter. Dry ice is poured into the PET bottle and water is injected through another bottle to trigger the process. The escaping gas launches a front loaded projectile through the barrel.

The added exhaust valve acts as a pressure release valve and is the first safety feature. The second one is a pressure gauge which monitors the critical pressure when the PET bottle explodes. The range according to the makers is around 80 meters. The cost? $200. The shoulder fired bazooka uses a simple chemistry principle. Fun, but serious so always use safety precautions.

Here’s more ammunition for your thoughts in our gallery of Airsoft and Gun projects.

Make your own Handheld Portal Gun

Joe L — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:10:52 +0000

Learn to build your own Aperture Science handheld Portal Gun just like one in the game. Construction is fairly simple, requiring basic carpentry and molding skills.Â� All it needs now is a few LEDs and lasers to make it even better. A few basic materials for this project include:

Wood filler (this stuff is vital!)
Exercise mat foam
Folder plastic
5 Liter paint can
Chicken Wire

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