Anyone who knows me personally, knows that I have a thingy for magnetic accelerators. Specifically those of a coil or gaussian nature. I was told that the only functioning rail-gun ever built was the size of a semi and used on a US battleship. I was told that handheld accelerators were only a thing of fancy, and would never have a place in the real world.
Well, those who said so, you were wrong.
http://www.pskovinfo.ru/coilgun/indexe.htm
Its a long-gab of a link, but its essentially a coil-gun the size of a glock, with an 8 round magazine, and is powered by 6 NiCad AA cells. It ain't pretty, but it works, and by the looks of the website, it was a basement project.
Enjoy.
3 comments:
Boy, were you wrong. Powerlabs.org is the best damn science site available. I've learned so much about how to destroy valuable equipment in the pursuit of awesome.
You were wrong too.
Did you see the size of that thing? Its the size of a rhino's ass! And probably about as efficient too.
You could carry the Powerlabs gun on your shoulder. I'm sure if the guy had a science grant and enough time that he could miniaturiaze it enough to be the size of a LAW.
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