33 Comments
- krische, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This guys rail gun is awesome
- jack1985, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1legal? maybe - fun? definitely!
- 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome stuff - looks like this is the real deal.
- gumpy5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't this like the third railgun on hackaday?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is almost as cool as the do it yourself cruise missle....i cant find a that story on digg anymore though
- weirdal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and how does hackaday make all my dreams come true? because they linked to this story?
- alexanEmpire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm going to modify mine so when I shoot someone with it, a loud booming voice from quake3 (maybe quake 4) will say: "You have taken the lead."
- maloney_633, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is this leagle
- QuikSilvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Either way, if it comes with an X-ray scope, i'll buy one.
- G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He must've edited it, because it goes to the real link, and not hackaday.
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This guy could have milled his own sniper rifle by now.
- Backlash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont know if its leagle or even legal for that matter :-S
- dizdaz89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As weirdal said, how does hackaday get all the credit? All they did was link to the story.
No digg... - winter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yay, a few more years of development and we'll have yet another way to kill each other!
- spawnkill19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wOoOoT
- maddog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0peace of cake............
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Be sure to tune in for next week's project: DIY Emergency Room.
- shanmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guys, this is an awesome story. The title of the digg cracked me up!
- kydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0finally i can shoot up my neighborhood.
- Soma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea, sorry about the linking guys... I submitted it really quick and didn't look over it that much.
- andyd273, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hey, I just want the finished plans... wonder how this would work for hunting applications
redneck: "yep, took me down that bear at half a mile with my handy rail gun *spits* the head was the only thing I could find, everything below the neck was a pink cloud. At least I didnt have to clean it." - AndrewTechie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+Digg just because of the cool factor of a rail gun.
I've attempted a similar project way scaled down (it shot steel bb's) and all I managed to accomplish was several minor electrocutions, soldering iron burns, and a spilled container of bbs - masterzora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Since when is digg merely about what's cool?
Digg is primarily about technology news, and secondarily what is cool (ie, cool technology news). People seem to forget that often and, so long as people do, Digg can never be better than Slashdot. - ajaykilkenny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice
- maddog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0piece of cake............
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Yea, sorry about the linking guys... I submitted it really quick and didn't look over it that much."
opps! didn't read this before my last post. Sorry. - unacceptable, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0>Slightly off topic comment, but would it be interesting if someone came
>out with an open specs Metal Gear type project that ran linux at its
>core?
Nope. - CompWiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm
is cool to - neurokaotix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Slightly off topic comment, but would it be interesting if someone came out with an open specs Metal Gear type project that ran linux at its core?
- masterzora, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This awesome tech news brought to you by... wait, what tech news? Oh, right! This isn't tech news.
Report++ - republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Damn I hate blogs!
No digg because of blog!


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