30 disposeable cameras and nothing to do....

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:23 am

the coil gun sound good i might just make one. you could build the flash into a controlor press a buttion temporaly blind the other player then shoot him in the game when hes not able to do any tning to stop you.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:45 pm

vskid wrote:Could someone post detailed instructions for making a coil gun? Everything I've ever seen makes it seem like they took the caps out of some cameras, set them by a bearing, and it flew across the room.

I need the same....

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dragon · Post by **dragon** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:00 pm

try this. http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/cgkit.html

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:15 pm

As I said before. Try here.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:39 pm

Coilguns will never be as powerful as real guns. The best ones I've seen that are under 20 pounds are only as strong as a BB Gun. Also, 30 caps might have a discharge rate of too much, which will pull the bearing BACKWARDS into the tube, potentially firing everything backwards. Do lots of research, there's plenty out there.

Search hack-a-day. Some guy made a really good handheld one.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:40 pm

Take pics of girls at your school.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:53 pm

That's just creepy!

You creep!

The one I made that worked kind of good went as follows:

- Take a pen tube that fits your ferromagnetic projectile (longer the better, I think, but balls work fine)
- Get a high gauge enameled wire and wrap it around the tube many, many times, in about an inch-long space. It should be nice and fat.
- Attach the caps, hope for the best.

With amateur coilguns, it's a guessing game. It's very sensitive, and a timing system for the start and stop of the discharge will be neccesary to achieve good results. I had a really good site but I forget it now. It didn't work for me, but I didn't have a timer and had much less farads than I should have.

Anyways, that site used 16-22 gauge wire. I didn't see less that 22. If I remember correctly, the one I made (That didn't quite work, but the site seemed to plan it out well) used 20 gauge wire, 19 turns per layer for 22 layers.

The name just came to me:

http://mgc314.home.comcast.net/

Magnetic Gun Club. Awestuff stuff, check it out, definitely, if you want to make a coilgun.

It has many MANY MMAAAANY tools and resources. It just might be the only one you need.

For example:

http://mgc314.home.comcast.net/opticoilarray1.htm

Has a list of computer-generated coil setups.

You should look for something in the 300 volts range.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:56 am

You seem to knwo a lot bout em, how do you make your own charging circuit? Can you use normal 800v caps? Or somthing special?

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:09 pm

I can't really tell you much more than what that site says. I never built one successfully.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:32 pm

ganonbanned wrote:Take pics of girls at your school.

For what use?

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Umm, I'll get to the coil wrapping soon!

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Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:34 pm

But where did you get all these cameras?

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:17 pm

Didn't he say his grandma works at a photo shop ?

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:07 pm

If I had that many cameras, I'd try to go about making a video with some kind of bullet-time effect.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:13 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:Didn't he say his grandma works at a photo shop ?

mine? that would be awesome!

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:25 pm

Will it Blend?