{"id":21551,"date":"2013-08-08T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21551"},"modified":"2013-08-08T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T13:14:02","slug":"a-home-made-gauss-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/a-home-made-gauss-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"A home-made Gauss gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be the most functional weapon in the world, but it does show that there might be a niche for <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2013\/08\/07\/a-full-auto-gauss-gun-probably-wont-hurt-much\/\" target=\"_blank\">this kind of development<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it may only be able to shoot a few cans right now, we certainly wouldn\u2019t want to be in front of [Jason]\u2018s fully automatic Gauss gun capable of firing 15 steel bolts from its magazine in less than two seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The bolts are fired from the gun with a linear motor. [Jason] is using eight coils along the length of his barrel, each one controlled by an IGBT. These are powered by two 22 Volt 3600mAh LiPo battery packs.<\/p>\n<p>As for the mechanical portion of the build, the bolts fired from this gun are actually 6.5mm nails, cut off and sharpened. These are chambered from a spring-loaded magazine, with each new bolt put into the breech with a small solenoid retracting for an instant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWeJsaCiGQ0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be the most functional weapon in the world, but it does show that there might be a niche for this kind of development: While it may only be able to shoot a few cans right now, we certainly wouldn\u2019t want to be in front of [Jason]\u2018s fully automatic Gauss gun capable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,663],"tags":[49,129,174],"class_list":["post-21551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-guns","tag-hack","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5BB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21552,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21551\/revisions\/21552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}