Inside a mild-mannered toy golf cup, the kind that pop the ball back at you when you sink a putt (and make you go walk for it when you miss), lurks a lethal weapon -- a tiny rail gun just waiting to serve. Modder Jay took one of those induction coils to build himself a small but fierce turret, also using a little inspiration from the
Serv O'Beer, an
ioBridge module, two ballpoint pens, two wooden spoons, a coffee mug, and -- the pièce de résistance -- a Wiimote liberated from someone's console. By twisting the controller left or right the weapon rotates accordingly, honing in on threatening textbooks and launching a screwdriver bit with deadly force. Alas, you can't fire the turret by pressing a button on the controller, but that's said to be entirely for safety reasons -- we wouldn't want some poor kid trying to play a little
My Horse & Me and accidentally shooting themselves in the back.
Update: Jay commented to let us know that he's
posted the source, meaning making your lethal weapon is that much easier -- and open!
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posted January 15th 2009 8:48AM
A ball return that looks like a pair of balls?
This takes "blowing your load" to a whole other level...
Holy crap that's funny. I was going to say something similar, but ya beat me to it. I can see someone playing a little pin the tail on the idiot with this thing.
Skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet...
pew pew pew
Actually, railguns sound like
"SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEWSHHHHHHHHH"
Yeah, but this is a coilgun. Coilguns aren't the same as railguns, they work using totally different mechanisms.
So yeah.
*Pew pew pew!*
They also humm while you carry them, so people can hear you coming.
@ 404 .....
same difference energy wise.
I'll be sure to stock up on algorithms body armor after work.
What form do I fill in to apply for my 2 minutes back?
Sorry there is none. But there is a form to fill out to get back the time you spent to write the comment describing your desire to get the time back from watching the video.
Sadly enough, there's no form to get back the time you spent to read this comment.
@ Rocketboy:
Outfuckingstanding. I'm the angry gamer, and I approve this message.
There is a form, however, it is 972 pages long as it has to deal with all the paradoxes etc. meaning it takes more than 2 minutes.
And then it's usually denied...
Why has he strapped a pair of hamsters balls to the back.
I think that's a dog bone maybe?
Wiimote + pens + coffee cup + office putting toy = To much time on your hands ..
Scientifically speaking, with unlimited time, anything could happen. so the unavoidable has just happened: The seemly innocent Wiimote finally found its way into killing machines - exactly as I predicted years ago....... mighty me.
The word "pens" looked like something else in my RSS feed. I just had to be sure.
@Funfunfunfuuuun-tastic!
Puh..puh.. puh.. puh.. please, do.. do.. do.. do.. don't, hurt me........
Like_A_Glove:
Say that again!
I used to make these as a kid! Except I used machine guns.
Thanks guys for all your comments! The spoons were something I "liberated" from our kitchen utility drawer (they seemed more useful to me as a mobile firing platform) but they do entirely look like hamster nuts, and I suppose weapons have always been considered a bit phallic so it's probably appropriate!
haha.. hamster nuts.
this rules!
I was expecting something a lot more instructive. And why is it that people like this take a look at the finished video, see how they captured nothing but blur on the notebook's screen, and go "Perfect, let's upload it"?
Someone's been playing too much Fallout3
Good stuff
Engaget liked the macbook more than the device.That is why this is here.
too much time on your hands?
Now this is WTFquery i can get behind. You guys might think it's a waste of time, but i find it kind of sexy. When weapons are outlawed, only those who can make them out of tape and spoons will have weapons.
funny but the way the canera was held made my seasick....
that's called cinematography
Yeah.... controlling it via Wiimote is very good. The power leaves a lot to be desired, even though it is cool that its a coil...
I recall hacking up a Staple gun in high school to fire pens, now that was dangerous. Deadly though, that went to some mad guys I worked with in a glass factory who used the compressed air nail guns (for building packing frames) as weapons, sure there was no hacking involved but perhaps that was thankful otherwise someone might have died.
Wait till I set mine up next to my cats litter box, teach my cat some Normandy beach skills :)))))))))))))))))) bwahahaha
Egad, yet another "honing" vs "homing" diction blunder in Engadget! See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hone%20in
As usual, it's not so simple, solarbuddy:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000378.html
You gotta love deadly turrets.
"Hello, friend."
"Could you come over here?"
"Activated."
"Please put me down."
"Self test error."
Tax Dollars at work: The cup says United Statetes Something Academy.
pretty awesome that he can get the code up and running and can build insane shit from techno junk.. so he's a mad scientist that cant actually figure out that his shitty little webcam doesn't focus on items 2 inches away.
so... why does it have testicles?
Hey guys,
Just as a follow up and in case it helps anyone who's interested in doing something similar.
I've put up my code here;
http://blog.thecapacity.org/2009/01/16/build-your-own-iogun/