We are sorry we didn’t answer your email but we get dozens of emails every day and
technically we can answer only a small random number of them. Because of that we now
decided to send unified answer to all our emails regarding most common questions:
Is the cannon for sale?
No, beccaus of a legal issues.
Could you tell me how to build one?
The cannon built and works exactly like the antique cannons of Napoleon time or the mortars of the american civil war. Its very simple (Look on the internet and you'll find detailed information).
Now, after you understand how it works, you have to learn basic metal processing technics (sawing, filing, soldering and drilling).
Formulas of gunpowder you can find even on YouTube.
What is the cannon made of?
Its all made of brass whit thin layer of silver inside the barrel to prevent corrosion.
What is the diameter of the barrel?
3.2 mm
Is the cannon home made?
Yes, it produced by jewelry making technics and there is only one of it.
Then go to these park ponds where people plays with their fancy RC boats, find the most annoying/bully of the owners, place your frigate next to his bote, and, if he doesn't surrender, BOOM, broadside! XD
I was raised on a farm in Texas with four brothers, so of course I have dug a BB out from under my skin. Digg users must be seriously pathetic if they have to run to the hospital for every minor scrape and scratch.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
I don't remember my pellet guy blowing apart glass coke bottles like that cannon did - it's hard to tell from that video, but I think this baby is packing more punch than you'll get from an air rifle...
What are you talking about? There are many, MANY cannons out there that are much bigger. I friend of mine from high school's dad has one with a bore of about 3". His standard, reusable, ordnance was an aluminum baseball bat painted with construction neon orange spray paint so you could see it easily.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Does anyone else get scared when they read posts like cawpin's and worry that they are being sarcastic too, and YOU are the one that doesn't get it? Thats what my nightmares are made of...
Wow, weird that I'm getting everything buried in this one.
First, the reason for my first response was that I wasn't sure if he was being sarcastic, assumed he wasn't, and also assumed that he meant the shape and relative dimensions of this PARTICULAR cannon wouldn't scale.
Dude just stop, you are just making it worse. Don't act like you were unsure if he was being sarcastic. The only thing worse than a dumbass not understanding sarcasm is the same dumbass trying to explain that he was somehow justified. You should have just said "oh f**k" and then shut up about it.
I don't understand why he is being dugg down, this is the funniest thing I've read in the comments for this story, and there have been quite a few funny comments.
Cawpin: Dunno who you're getting buried after your first response. Random mindless digger hate, I guess. You made an honest (hilarious) mistake, got rightfully buried. You then immediately 'fessed up rather than getting angry and defensive. Good on 'ya. Wish more people did the same, ignore the buries.
Thanks cawpin - I actually snorted and couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes after reading these comments. My family thinks I'm crazy now.
I get that sarcasm doesn't translate to text very well, but the reason why this video was cool was because it was a successful miniaturization of a technology that has been an integral part of pop culture for what- 700 years? This was not a trolling attempt!
Anyway, thanks for the laugh, you genuinely made my day!
Those are the noise-maker cannons. They are too dangerous to use for firing any sort of round. They make larger scale brass and solid steel cannons that can be used for that purpose but they cost much more than $30.
O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice. Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed et velata and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. Fate is against me
in health,and virtue,
driven on and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour without delay
pluck the vibrating string;
since through Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!
Very cool, but breaking a fluorescent tube and a CRT monitor and pretty much two guaranteed paths to mercury poisoning. Probably not the best choice of targets.
Those things contain tiny amounts of Mercury you just leave the room shortly after it happening and come back in about 15 minutes. It's not really a big deal.
I do not beleive the damages are real. Specially when you consider how hard the CRT is, there is no way that the gun can actually do kill it that way. There is just not enought mass to do it. The gas filled balloon at the end, there is absolutelly no way that it would catch fire like that! Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
mythbuster tried with real gun, they had to use tracing bullet to be able to make any gas containing container to catch fire. even the "spark" from the metal tank being piecered by the bullet failed to do it. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
i was planning on saying the same thing, but with midgets. then i noticed how small the cannon is... and the rather difficult process of purchasing midgets.
or what if they worked together to destroyed their perspex cage and escape. Then hold you and your girlfriend hostage as they take turns voilating her?
Did anyone else wonder why he didn't think about what would happen to things like glass when he was firing? I would have at least put a the bottles in something to catch the glass haha. Then it seemed like he was firing at random things around his house...lamp BAM....light...BAM....
Although one must be a complete retard blowing up a lamp, fluorescent tubes, and other electronic, glass objects, and whatnot near other quite important objects.
zeeakzAug 8, 2010
BoooOOOoooM
cawpinAug 8, 2010
I wasn't expecting much but was pleasantly surprised. That little thing was neat.
addiktionAug 9, 2010
Fire ze missiles!
dyeung93Aug 8, 2010
sweet, i wish i had one
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
The New Digg is coming ! think of new digg, forget the mini canon:
http://is.gd/e9lXF
shutitdownAug 9, 2010
I emailed the guy and I'm sure other people did too. Here's what I got in my response... Needless to say I was butt hurt.
Dear sir
We are the creators of the video "Mini Cannon Firing and Destroying Targets"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxHW-QGMuZ4
We are sorry we didn’t answer your email but we get dozens of emails every day and
technically we can answer only a small random number of them. Because of that we now
decided to send unified answer to all our emails regarding most common questions:
Is the cannon for sale?
No, beccaus of a legal issues.
Could you tell me how to build one?
The cannon built and works exactly like the antique cannons of Napoleon time or the mortars of the american civil war. Its very simple (Look on the internet and you'll find detailed information).
Now, after you understand how it works, you have to learn basic metal processing technics (sawing, filing, soldering and drilling).
Formulas of gunpowder you can find even on YouTube.
What is the cannon made of?
Its all made of brass whit thin layer of silver inside the barrel to prevent corrosion.
What is the diameter of the barrel?
3.2 mm
Is the cannon home made?
Yes, it produced by jewelry making technics and there is only one of it.
What is the name of the music in the video?
Popcorn remix by M&H Band
Thank you for watching our video
T .Shamir
ShamirJewelryMakers
laurenelderAug 8, 2010
I think that guy used to work in our office lol.
wateryouthAug 9, 2010
was he the weird guy that would shoot s**t with a tiny canon on his desk, because it probably was him.
buttsmaugAug 9, 2010
Yeah, he was sick of all the other people shooting him with one of those usb rocket launchers.
ofnumbersAug 8, 2010
Now if only we had bigger ones, and some sort of sea faring vessels...
dsmxAug 8, 2010
Whales?
maqikelefantAug 9, 2010
Narwhals.
shutitdownAug 9, 2010
F**K YEAH NARWHALS!!!!
greenroom628Aug 8, 2010
could we perhaps mount them on the backs of sea turtles? or perhaps sharks?
ivaldes047Aug 8, 2010
with frikin laser beams!
17999Aug 8, 2010
Shock and Awe, Lilliputian Style.
jorgegtAug 8, 2010
Why bigger? I'd love to fit like 30 of these in a RC frigate, something like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Lutine1.jpg
Then go to these park ponds where people plays with their fancy RC boats, find the most annoying/bully of the owners, place your frigate next to his bote, and, if he doesn't surrender, BOOM, broadside! XD
jektalAug 8, 2010
Here you go: http://www.hobbytron.com/ElectricRCBoatFullFunctioningRTRFlyingDutchmanPirateShip82056.html
Or, more modern: http://www.hobby-lobby.com/prinz_eugen_3895_prd1.htm
thecheesemonkeyAug 8, 2010
miniature destroyers decimating childrens favourite toys, this image amuses me greatly
crossfox17Aug 9, 2010
This is amazing. They should have like 15 little boats just go at it.
josephshellAug 8, 2010
Arrrrrrrrr!!!!!
misteratozAug 8, 2010
I like where you're going with this....
shooverAug 9, 2010
Hmm.. What floats? I know, WITCHES!
clairesAug 8, 2010
aim it a person... a person... ha ha ha.. crap.. sorry erm. How destructive
shooverAug 8, 2010
It might not kill you, but you'd certainly be going to the hospital after getting hit by it.
wakkyweedAug 8, 2010
I'm not sure you would go to the hospital. It appeared to do about the same damage that an air powered BB or pellet gun would do.
mweatherAug 8, 2010
Spoken like someone who has never had to have a BB or pellet dug out from under their skin.
wakkyweedAug 9, 2010
I was raised on a farm in Texas with four brothers, so of course I have dug a BB out from under my skin. Digg users must be seriously pathetic if they have to run to the hospital for every minor scrape and scratch.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
shooverAug 9, 2010
I don't remember my pellet guy blowing apart glass coke bottles like that cannon did - it's hard to tell from that video, but I think this baby is packing more punch than you'll get from an air rifle...
kristijan12Aug 8, 2010
This is like most awesome s**t I've seen in a while.
binaryclockAug 9, 2010
Wow you really need to get out of the house.
kristijan12Aug 9, 2010
I meant on the internet dude.
nzsimonAug 9, 2010
i think you need the double rainbow dude
lukas1051Aug 8, 2010
That is so cool. It's tiny as well, you could shoot stuff and people wouldn't have a clue where it's coming from. I want one!
binaryclockAug 9, 2010
Yes, because nobody will notice a guy with a lighter packing a small mini canon with gunpowder, accompanied by a large boom when it goes off.
mkriss5681Aug 8, 2010
That guy must have dozens of tiny holes in his dry wall.
sjr09Aug 8, 2010
Check out 1:07 in the video when the gas filled balloon blows up-- you can see so many tiny holes in the top wall.
dlite922Aug 9, 2010
Dry wall?
s**t, if any digger had this, nothing would be safe in the house. The girlfriend* would be a flat, collateral damage.
* inflatable.
shooverAug 8, 2010
Nice prototype, but that technology just won't scale...
cawpinAug 8, 2010
What are you talking about? There are many, MANY cannons out there that are much bigger. I friend of mine from high school's dad has one with a bore of about 3". His standard, reusable, ordnance was an aluminum baseball bat painted with construction neon orange spray paint so you could see it easily.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
hpi5555Aug 8, 2010
Please stop making the /s tag necessary.
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
Not much experience with sarcasm, huh?
josephshellAug 8, 2010
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
demdudeAug 8, 2010
Wow. Just... Wow.
cawpinAug 8, 2010
I was afraid that was sarcasm, f**k.
ed54Aug 14, 2010
nicely done, my good sir.
luciddr34m3rAug 8, 2010
Does anyone else get scared when they read posts like cawpin's and worry that they are being sarcastic too, and YOU are the one that doesn't get it? Thats what my nightmares are made of...
cawpinAug 8, 2010
LOL, no sarcasm, in mine this time.
tokeliAug 8, 2010
Even better is he's not even mentioning f**king gigantic historical cannons.
tehwhispAug 9, 2010
Yeah, you were all trolled.
cawpinAug 9, 2010
Wow, weird that I'm getting everything buried in this one.
First, the reason for my first response was that I wasn't sure if he was being sarcastic, assumed he wasn't, and also assumed that he meant the shape and relative dimensions of this PARTICULAR cannon wouldn't scale.
Second, I'm well aware of the gigantic historic cannons. I've actually seen the largest conventional cannon ever built, a remake of it anyway. It's the Mons Meg in Edinburgh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_MegComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
hansard85Aug 9, 2010
Dude just stop, you are just making it worse. Don't act like you were unsure if he was being sarcastic. The only thing worse than a dumbass not understanding sarcasm is the same dumbass trying to explain that he was somehow justified. You should have just said "oh f**k" and then shut up about it.
cawpinAug 9, 2010
I did say "f**k" in my first response. It was buried. I didn't try to justify anything; I just explained my logic.
luciddr34m3rAug 9, 2010
LOL this is so meta.... I... think...
errorsAug 9, 2010
I don't understand why he is being dugg down, this is the funniest thing I've read in the comments for this story, and there have been quite a few funny comments.
infinityofneverAug 9, 2010
Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
i thoroughly enjoyed this thread. will read again.
hiltonlangeAug 9, 2010
Cawpin: Dunno who you're getting buried after your first response. Random mindless digger hate, I guess. You made an honest (hilarious) mistake, got rightfully buried. You then immediately 'fessed up rather than getting angry and defensive. Good on 'ya. Wish more people did the same, ignore the buries.
dlite922Aug 9, 2010
Ya, the consecutive burials is just digg being digg. Accept it and move on.
shooverAug 9, 2010
Thanks cawpin - I actually snorted and couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes after reading these comments. My family thinks I'm crazy now.
I get that sarcasm doesn't translate to text very well, but the reason why this video was cool was because it was a successful miniaturization of a technology that has been an integral part of pop culture for what- 700 years? This was not a trolling attempt!
Anyway, thanks for the laugh, you genuinely made my day!
goon540Aug 9, 2010
hahahaha you made my night, f**k the haters...
mike10101Aug 8, 2010
Here's a mini cannon that you can buy for like $30 and it uses black powder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-44i2hnFbY
aroundtown27Aug 9, 2010
I made one just like this in shop class...
simonsezzAug 9, 2010
Those are the noise-maker cannons. They are too dangerous to use for firing any sort of round. They make larger scale brass and solid steel cannons that can be used for that purpose but they cost much more than $30.
glbernsAug 8, 2010
dugg because the shots matched up with the music. Also cuz its awesome.
duihomerAug 8, 2010
"You'll shoot your eye out!" - A Christmas Story
mwrlAug 8, 2010
Fantastic!
sen5241Aug 8, 2010
Why choose Carmina Burana instead of the ultimately more appropriate 1812 Overture? Strange.
wilc3685Aug 8, 2010
1812 Overture is saved for America's Funniest Home videos for their 'ball shot' montage.
arschgaudiAug 8, 2010
O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice. Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed et velata and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. Fate is against me
satman33Aug 8, 2010
in health,and virtue,
driven on and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour without delay
pluck the vibrating string;
since through Fate
strikes down the strong,
everyone weep with me!
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
I would have preferred Dual of the Fates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPGCY9-9Zo
gramathyAug 9, 2010
I would have preferred you spelled Duel properly.
/grammarnazi
baskjevAug 8, 2010
useful... I guess...
drsnugglebunnyAug 8, 2010
Hmmm.... possibilities for real life desktop Tower Defense, with c**kroaches?
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
How dirty is your apartment??
baloourizaAug 10, 2010
It's not dirty, he just lives in Los Angeles.
727super27Aug 8, 2010
Very cool, but breaking a fluorescent tube and a CRT monitor and pretty much two guaranteed paths to mercury poisoning. Probably not the best choice of targets.
cdietschrun1Aug 8, 2010
I came here to say this
arschgaudiAug 8, 2010
Great, why don't you two get together for some hand-wringing.
dsmxAug 8, 2010
Those things contain tiny amounts of Mercury you just leave the room shortly after it happening and come back in about 15 minutes. It's not really a big deal.
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
Lighten up, Francis.
zb757Aug 8, 2010
You must be the life of the party…
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
Thanks Sgt Buzzkill
choiboyAug 9, 2010
You're right, he really should have gone for live targets.
killagramAug 8, 2010
I shall buy one for work .....and fire upon unsuspecting annoying customers (and co-associates).
randolph919Aug 8, 2010
i want one
chikutenAug 8, 2010
What is this? A cannon for ANTS!?!?
danteinfernoAug 8, 2010
I don't wanna hear your excuses! The cannon has to be at least... three times bigger than this!
napierttAug 8, 2010
Reference?
jeebodonAug 8, 2010
Zoolander
danteinfernoAug 8, 2010
Zoolander.
napierttAug 8, 2010
Thanks
elisliderAug 9, 2010
I'm sorry did my PIN get in the way of your ASS?!
choiboyAug 9, 2010
He's absolutely right!
sufjanstevensAug 9, 2010
How are children gonna learn how to shoot good, when they cant even hold the gun.
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
Greatest comment on Digg today.
wontstoptalkingAug 9, 2010
Cool story, Noahgelman.
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords.
wontstoptalkingAug 9, 2010
I totally read this in Ben Stiller's voice immediately...weird....
auragenAug 8, 2010
That was freaking awesome!
jaconiusAug 8, 2010
SAVE THE BOOZE, MAN!!
baronvontito1Aug 8, 2010
Who knew artillery could be so adorable?
waredgoAug 8, 2010
Awesome.
helicockterAug 8, 2010
This account has been closed by the user
Closed AccountAug 9, 2010
Since it uses black powder and shot a bb through the glass in a CRT monitor, I'm guessing it would hurt...a lot
mrfistyAug 9, 2010
I was thinking he was pretty game holding that cup for it. Willing to assume it'll take a fingernail clean off.
kmo917Aug 8, 2010
Say hello to my little friend.
digg2point0Aug 8, 2010
Saw some Wookiees.
Great big Wookiees.
They've come to maul Darth Vader.
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
WHERE DO YOU BUY THEM!?!?!?!?!?!?!
thephantom1492Aug 8, 2010
I do not beleive the damages are real. Specially when you consider how hard the CRT is, there is no way that the gun can actually do kill it that way. There is just not enought mass to do it. The gas filled balloon at the end, there is absolutelly no way that it would catch fire like that! Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
lordbenAug 8, 2010
My guess would be this thing is about as powerful as a BB gun which can certainly penetrate a crt monitor at close range.
As for the balloon a flammable gas could certainly catch fire like that and I imagine the ball is quite hot coming out of that thing igniting the gas.
thephantom1492Aug 8, 2010
mythbuster tried with real gun, they had to use tracing bullet to be able to make any gas containing container to catch fire. even the "spark" from the metal tank being piecered by the bullet failed to do it.
Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
russ3Aug 8, 2010
phantom you are mixing up gasoline and gasses.
k6squidAug 8, 2010
aaaaaaand BOOM, goes the dynamite.
sen5241Aug 9, 2010
More like pop
j3553flAug 8, 2010
Get about 20 mini cannons, go to the petstore & pick up some mice, dress them in civil war clothing & let the games begin!
cawpinAug 8, 2010
You have won this thread.
grindelwaldAug 8, 2010
That's even better than gladiator mice.
dlite922Aug 9, 2010
Did they have canons (gun powder) at ancient roman times?
lethargicmonkeyAug 8, 2010
i was planning on saying the same thing, but with midgets. then i noticed how small the cannon is... and the rather difficult process of purchasing midgets.
choiboyAug 9, 2010
10 minutes with craigslist is all you need.
elperegrinoAug 9, 2010
i read something about hawaii the other day - i gather midget-trafficking is legal there and in a few other states
praystationAug 8, 2010
or what if they worked together to destroyed their perspex cage and escape. Then hold you and your girlfriend hostage as they take turns voilating her?
I'm watching too much japanese porn
theonekenAug 9, 2010
Did you just want Dinner with Schmucks?
theonekenAug 9, 2010
*watch
wreckosaurusAug 9, 2010
The most adorable atrocity ever.
dmurphy04Aug 9, 2010
Animal cruelty is actually not funny.
pseudononymistAug 9, 2010
what a moustrosity
17999Aug 8, 2010
Guy's ready to bring down Shock and Awe on some Lilliputians.
fruit45Aug 8, 2010
lol it's pretty much a gun..
jektalAug 8, 2010
Swords are pretty much knives...
conkesoAug 8, 2010
Digg is pretty much re...
pstrollAug 8, 2010
with a trillion of them i could take over the world
* warms up dremel *
xsubmergedAug 8, 2010
Did anyone else wonder why he didn't think about what would happen to things like glass when he was firing? I would have at least put a the bottles in something to catch the glass haha. Then it seemed like he was firing at random things around his house...lamp BAM....light...BAM....
:P Maybe it's not his house
tokeliAug 8, 2010
Of course it's not his house. What man has a war with his own house?
zerocubedAug 8, 2010
meh, why have a mini cannon that can be traced to you when you've got a bird trained to poop on your targets?
jektalAug 8, 2010
Hmmm... How much weight can that bird carry?
dillonianAug 9, 2010
African, or European?
firecellAug 8, 2010
Badass.
n00dlejesterAug 8, 2010
Dear Santa,
I want this for Christmas, and nothing else.
<3
n00dlejester
nard3456Aug 8, 2010
DLC for the new worm wars
nachete70Aug 8, 2010
It is this one
http://algoquecontar-nachete70.blogspot.com/2010/05/un-supercanon-de-menos-de-2-centimetros.html
timmyftwAug 9, 2010
Is this a TOS violation?
shwaavayAug 9, 2010
You should apply to the cyber police, and the state police.
fishnchipsmanAug 8, 2010
I can't STAND it when they put that ultra dramatic music in videos like this.
roguebladeAug 8, 2010
I can't stop playing Team Fortress 2 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh help meeeeeeeeee
aikomikoAug 8, 2010
I'm more impressed with the accuracy. You would have trouble making the across the room shots with a modern derringer.
impressaAug 8, 2010
WANT!
doshindudeAug 8, 2010
Reminds me of the mini sentry in TF2.
shadeofgreyAug 8, 2010
I'm not sure how it ignited the balloon filled with gas.
bauxzauxAug 9, 2010
heat from the bullet
shadeofgreyAug 9, 2010
Even a full sized bullet doesn't get nearly hot enough for ignition.
wondertwinsAug 8, 2010
That was cute and scary at the same time.
Although one must be a complete retard blowing up a lamp, fluorescent tubes, and other electronic, glass objects, and whatnot near other quite important objects.
batonryeAug 8, 2010
Mini-Cannon = Gun
theonekenAug 9, 2010
That steel ball is going to ricochet and hit him in the ass one day.
nburgAug 9, 2010
Why his ass, unless he turns away? Probably right in his f**king face!
batonryeAug 10, 2010
He's gonna shoot hit eye out!
xflankerxAug 8, 2010
Clearly this is stolen Lilliputian technology.
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
Clearly its stolen Blefuscudian technology you small end egg cracking imbecile.