…what this is. Found it on a picture-file sweep (filename was a bunch of numbers.) A co-worker suggested it might be some kind of degausser, but image searches turn up nothing resembling it.
No Idea…
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March 9, 2009 at 1:02 am
looks like a taser but not really just something odd maybe a sensor
March 9, 2009 at 1:11 am
it is a home made taser gun. Those black things are capacitors that get charged up.
March 9, 2009 at 1:13 am
That’s a gauss gun or coilgun, magnets to shoot bb’s.
March 9, 2009 at 1:14 am
sweet
March 9, 2009 at 1:16 am
Its a gause gun.
Original Source.
hackaday.com/2006/12/23/gauss-pistol-redeux/
March 9, 2009 at 1:16 am
Woops… Gauss Gun…
March 9, 2009 at 1:20 am
I would have thought those were c batteries, but yeah, looks like a homemade taser…or possibly professional with the side open.
March 9, 2009 at 1:24 am
not a tazer dumbasses, it’s a gauss gun.
March 9, 2009 at 1:26 am
i believe its a coil gun
The hack-a-day link is correct
March 9, 2009 at 2:56 am
This thing is cool. I saw a video once of the guy shooting glass bottles with it. Very effective.
March 9, 2009 at 3:16 am
Woo, coilguns!
March 9, 2009 at 4:21 am
Far better … this guy has too much time on his hands!
www.gausspistol.com/index.html
March 9, 2009 at 4:26 am
He can call it a kazoo but its till a coil gun
see the two coils thats how you can tell
This is a guass rifle
magnetnerd.com/Neodymium%20Magnets/Real%20Gauss%20Rifle.jpg
March 9, 2009 at 7:15 am
i was going to say it was a USP.45, but whatever. i guess you guys know best.
March 9, 2009 at 9:13 am
Man, I was all excited for a mini gausse riffle to pretend Halo with.
March 9, 2009 at 9:20 am
Of course, if I had just searched for “gauss” instead of “degauss”…but whatever. Thanks, everyone.
@Blue-fish: This is it –although this little paragraph on the “how it works” page didn’t exactly fill me with confidence:
“The pulse turn-off is the most critical aspect of timing. If any of the magnetic field is still
present after the middle of the projectile passes the midpoint of the coil then the
projectile will experience a “suck-back” effect. Late turn-off could not only slow down the
projectile, it could even cause it to change direction and shoot backwards!”
www.gausspistol.com/howitworks.html
March 9, 2009 at 3:41 pm
So what would you use a relatively silent handheld device that shot a single steel projectile (one that’s about the diameter of a .22 round but 3 times the mass, due to its length) at a time?
Assassinating that woodchuck that digs up the vegetable garden at 3am without waking the neighbors?
March 9, 2009 at 11:43 pm
@HoChunk: Moar Power.
March 11, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Implement awful pun in 3…2…1
“I’m gonna bust a cap in your ass, sucka!”
or if you prefer:
“Don’t taze me, Bro!”