Homemade Gauss Gun

bonzoesc writes: "I'm sure we all remember getting owned by some railgun-wielding kid in Quake2. Ever wanted a way to get back? Enter the Homemade Gauss Rifle. Requires wooden ruler with groove down the middle to serve as the rail, steel balls that can roll down the groove to use as projectiles, and magnets to store and redirect energy. Physics is fun!"

Team Fortress Classic

[BrianGa]

Do Doctors (Medics) get guns that are twice as fast as those given to us, the average Joe?

Games for Physicists?

[citroidSD]

I knew this would happen. First you had Physics for Game Developers [slashdot.org] Now you have Game Weapons for Physicists.

Sigh, what's next, perpetual motion?

Lies.

[whee]

This is obviously a fake railgun; It lacks the spiral of blue particles that lead back to the source. Nice try, though.

(At least this isn't a homemade BFG -- I'd be really scared then)

Hmm

[FakePlasticDubya]

"But officer, you see, it's for my electrophysics class."

Degaussing gun

[mcc]

Eh.. i'm disappointed. I initially misread that as "degauss rifle"..

After discovering in computer labs that hitting the "deguass" button on a monitor will cause the monitors nearby to trip out very slightly for an instant, i had these vague daydreams of rewiring whatever it is in the monitor that makes it deguass to be unreasonably strong, so that hitting "deguass" would cause the monitors of all the computers in the lab or whatever else is in a 40-foot radius to be degaussed at once, Matrix EMP-blast style. This would probably break stuff, but then that's the point, i suppose.

I dunno.. i guess having instructions on how to build a mini-rail-gun really is much cooler, but still, i wonder if the guass-blast idea is possible.. and if it were, modifying the idea to create a gun you could stick at a monitor and pull the trigger to deguass it would be really funny. Alas, there's no practical use for such a thing as far as i can tell, and it isn't really *that* interesting, so i don't really care enough to do any research on the subject, so for now, it looks like i'm going to have to limit myself to putting an electric pencil sharpener next to the monitor, sticking in pencils, and giggling.

Uhh...

[AnalogBoy]

you didn't just give a bunch of undersexed, over hormonal, arrogant teenagers instructions on how to build a DANGEROUS WEAPON, now, did you?

-ugh-

:)

Re:See my vest

[supermoose]

See my loafers, former gophers. See my hat... 'twas my cat.

Awesome.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now can we have an article on how to make the BFG?

C'mon, please? I wanna know the physics behind whatever the deal is with that "cone" thing.

I sure would love to see this page...

[TheMonkeyDepartment]

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This is useless.

[Wakko Warner]

It's nothing like the Quake rifle. I tried killing *THREE PEOPLE* with mine, and all it did was hit them in the head a little.

What a waste of time!

- A.P.

Not all of us

[Wonko42]

I'm sure we all remember getting owned by some railgun-wielding kid in Quake2.

Bah! I was that railgun-wielding kid in Quake 2!

2 birds with one stone

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Re:They may seem fun . . .

[nurightshu]

Safety First!

Actually, think for just a second: do you really want the sort of people who would half-ass the assembly of a railgun to breed? Personally, I'd rather that they eliminate themselves early in life.

Besides, if everybody thought through every crazy stunt before they tried it, we'd put the Darwin Awards out of business.

Re:2 birds with one stone

[Chris Mattern]

"Nice little website ya have here. Be a shame if it got slashdotted, ya know?"

Chris Mattern

Re:Lies.

[bonzoesc]

Dip the steel ball on the end in blue paint before firing. Pretend that the mess on the floor is a spiral. I don't have the ball bearings handy in my dorm room to try this out, but I think you might need to make your own "PIIIIUUUU" sound effect, too.

The website will now be shutdown

[Kasmiur]

{joke}
For helping terrorist manafactur weapons that could cause mass destruction. Anyone who has viewed this page and learned something from it needs to IMMEDENTLY turn themselves into the local FBI and be detained for trial.

This message brought to you by the Local FBI and National Security commision.

{/joke}

Re:syndicate

[negativekarmanow tm]

Well, syndicate was kind of fucked up, with the stats at the end of the mission showing the number of civilian casualties, making it a game to kill every last civilian you meet.

Or maybe that was just the way I played it...