The P.E.S.T. is a “centrifugal” launcher using a rotor powered by a DC motor to accelerate plastic BBs. It has a 50 round magazine and 3 fire modes: semi-auto, 3 round burst, and full-auto. Fire is not instantaneous because it takes 0.75 seconds for the rotor to spin up. If you follow this “read” link you’ll find a detailed description of the device. Photos can be found here.
yeah, heh
and i wonder if he will release the code for it?
looks pritty simple to build, wonder if he will make a guide tho
sweet, there are always pics of them but why hasnt anyone posted a DIY Chronograph?
There’s one there on the read link.
i thought using a DMM for the display of the chronograph was really clever.
this is one sweet project
“The P.E.S.T. is a
now one of the “read” links is gone :-)
Yeah, the posting software wasn’t listening to me so I had to work around it.
Wait, where does the slug come in again?
PEST. Psst, and I thought it was a “slug” launcher. Would have made one of those-if it shot real “slugs”
If the person who made the site is listening.. frames are not your friend.
@ 11, yeah, especially THAT many frames, just glad that firefox has a “view only that frame” feature :-D
Why not P.E.L.T. (Portable Electromechanical Launcher/Thrower)? Seems like a more appropriate use of the word.
Ooh, I like p.e.l.t. poppoppow “AAUURRGGH!”
“You’ve just been PELTed, my friend.”
Damn that thing looks more sexy than my girlfriend. It reminds me of something from Warhammer 40,000.
The slug laucher’s only defense is the salt suit.
Ewwwwwww.
Nice project, but lets get the military involved: Check out the DREAD gun.
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_DREAD,,00.html
Looking for some help. Those interested in this slug thrower and the dread gun may be interested.
How to build this resetting target. I can’t afford the $1700.
I’m handy with metal but not so versed in power/timer/software coding
Thanks
k308
Hi,
http://www.geocities.com/pest3125 is the ‘official’ website – it will go down due to excessive traffic. I put most of the photos on http://photos.yahoo.com/pest3125 to lower the BW of the main site. If you are having problems with the frames on the site, I am curious why – its written in pure html using Ace4html freeware and worked fine on Opera and IE.
neat, but once you scale it up, I imagine gyroscopic forces will become pretty significant. #17, I’m talkin’ to you.
Just wondering, how do you actually stop the balls/ammo from rolling out of the barrel? i’m planning on making something along these lines and will post when i’m done. thanks
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the “read” and “read” links point to different sites..